Hi again;] I am looking for a way to scatter lots of trees along a surface to make a deep forest and i was thinking of using stand-ins, but they don’t seem to work with particle or hair instancing. I guess it’s because you have to actually duplicate them, not instance them or something like that. Would there be any workaround for this? I tried using a scatter script instead, but it doesn’t work well for large amounts of trees i need. Maybe an Ice Scatter compound would be fast enough for large quantities of objects? Or is there an easier way of making a forest like that --> http://www.ristohurme.com/forest%20hill.jpg <-- ? Vue isn’t an option unfortunately, we lack the rendering horsepower it seems to need… Any ideas?
Hair and particle instancing stand-ins?
Might be worth looking into doing this with E-on’s Vue software. Using xStream in combo with XSI.
Jesse-Irvin
#3
Hair instancing should work although possibly not as well as as using something like Vue. Make sure you are putting your models under a group so they can be instanced by the hair. it should work as I’ve been doing it repeatedly over the past few weeks with no problems.
dwigfor
#4
I thought Junki created some scripts for this and video tutorial (for making forest with grids) - try searching…
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