Dynamic create/remove foliage on client/server

This is an example of dynamic create fxShapeReplicator type object
on both clients and server, will generalte flowers from player's current
position, hope others can find this helpful.

I was looking for a solution to do this, and i found this thread
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=18448,
so here we have some example code here.

Some notes:
1. you need to replace shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/Plants/flower.dts";
with your own shape file.
2. to remove object, this may not need commandToclient(%cl, 'doReplicate');
3. you can change fxShapeReplicator to fxFoliageReplicator, it should works
also, but not tested.
4. This is just a testing code.


--------------------------Client code:-----------------------------------------------------

$rshapes = new simGroup(rshapes); 

function clientCmdCreateFlowers(%pos)
{
  schedule(1000, 0, "CreateFlowers", %pos);
}

function clientCmdDoReplicate()
{
  schedule(2000, 0, "startFoliageReplication"); 
  schedule(2800, 0, "startClientReplication"); 
}

function CreateFlowers(%pos)
{
   logMessage("clientCmdCreateFlower:" @ %pos, 1); 
   %flowers = new fxShapeReplicator(Flowers) {
      position = %pos;
      rotation = "1 0 0 0";
      scale = "1 1 1";
      HideReplications = "0";
      ShowPlacementArea = "1";
      PlacementAreaHeight = "25";
      PlacementColour = %pos;
      shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/Plants/flower.dts";
      Seed = "1376312589";
      ShapeCount = "148";
      ShapeRetries = "80";
      InnerRadiusX = "0";
      InnerRadiusY = "0";
      OuterRadiusX = "280";
      OuterRadiusY = "280";
      AllowOnTerrain = "1";
      AllowOnInteriors = "1";
      AllowOnStatics = "1";
      AllowOnWater = "0";
      AllowWaterSurface = "0";
      AlignToTerrain = "0";
      Interactions = "1";
      AllowedTerrainSlope = "90";
      TerrainAlignment = "1 1 1";
      FixShapeAspect = "0";
      ShapeScaleMin = "0.43 0.43 0.43";
      ShapeScaleMax = "1.18 1.18 1.18";
      ShapeRotateMin = "0 0 0";
      ShapeRotateMax = "0 0 0";
      OffsetZ = "0";
   };
   rshapes.add(%flowers); 

}

function clientCmdRMFlowers()
{
  schedule(100, 0, "rmFlowers");
}

function rmFlowers()
{
   %count = rshapes.getCount(); 
   logMessage("rmFlowers:" @ %count, 1); 
   for(%i=0; %i<%count; %i++) 
   {
       %obj = rshapes.getObject(%i); 
       logMessage("rmFlowers:" @ %obj, 1); 
       rshapes.remove(%obj); 
       %obj.schedule(10, "delete"); 
       %count --; 
       %i--; 
   }


}

---------------------------------Server code: -----------------------------------------------

$rshapes = new simGroup(rshapes); 


function ServerCmdCreateFlowers(%client)
{
   %count = ClientGroup.getCount();
   %pos = vectorAdd(%client.player.getPosition(), "0 0 2"); 
   createFlowers(%pos);
   logMessage("CmdCreateFlowers:" @ %pos, 1); 
   for (%i = 0; %i < %count; %i++)
   {
		%cl = ClientGroup.getObject(%i);
                if( !%cl.isAIControlled() ){
                    commandToclient(%cl, 'CreateFlowers', %pos);
                    commandToclient(%cl, 'doReplicate');
                }
   }

}



function createFlowers(%pos)
{
   logMessage("clientCmdCreateFlower:" @ %pos, 1); 
   %flowers = new fxShapeReplicator(Flowers) {
      position = "-188.838 -108.911 168.018";
      rotation = "1 0 0 0";
      scale = "1 1 1";
      HideReplications = "0";
      ShowPlacementArea = "1";
      PlacementAreaHeight = "25";
      PlacementColour = "0.400000 0.000000 0.800000 1.000000";
      shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/Plants/flower.dts";
      Seed = "1376312589";
      ShapeCount = "148";
      ShapeRetries = "80";
      InnerRadiusX = "0";
      InnerRadiusY = "0";
      OuterRadiusX = "280";
      OuterRadiusY = "280";
      AllowOnTerrain = "1";
      AllowOnInteriors = "1";
      AllowOnStatics = "1";
      AllowOnWater = "0";
      AllowWaterSurface = "0";
      AlignToTerrain = "0";
      Interactions = "1";
      AllowedTerrainSlope = "90";
      TerrainAlignment = "1 1 1";
      FixShapeAspect = "0";
      ShapeScaleMin = "0.43 0.43 0.43";
      ShapeScaleMax = "1.18 1.18 1.18";
      ShapeRotateMin = "0 0 0";
      ShapeRotateMax = "0 0 0";
      OffsetZ = "0";
   };
   rshapes.add(%flowers); 
}

function ServerCmdRMFlowers(%client)
{
   rmFlowers();
   %count = ClientGroup.getCount();
   logMessage("CmdRMFolowers:"@%count); 
   for (%i = 0; %i < %count; %i++)
   {
		%cl = ClientGroup.getObject(%i);
                if( !%cl.isAIControlled() ){
                    commandToclient(%cl, 'rmFlowers');
                    commandToclient(%cl, 'doReplicate');
                }
   }

}

function rmFlowers()
{
   %count = rshapes.getCount(); 
   logMessage("rmFlowers:" @ %count, 1); 
   for(%i=0; %i<%count; %i++) 
   {
       %obj = rshapes.getObject(%i); 
       logMessage("rmFlowers:" @ %obj, 1); 
       rshapes.remove(%obj); 
       %obj.schedule(10, "delete"); 
       %count --; 
       %i--; 
   }


}