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Billboard Fliage?

by GI_JOEJK · in Technical Issues · 09/28/2008 (12:32 pm) · 5 replies

Can TGEA do billboard foliage? If so, how do I set it up?

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Torque Owner asmaloney (Andy)
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#1
09/28/2008 (12:45 pm)
Yes. In TGEA 1.7.1, you can use either GroundCover or fxFoliageReplicator. These are found under Mission Objects -> Environment in the World Editor Creator.

There's some documentation for the fxFoliageReplicator here.

Associate Konrad Kiss
Bitgap Games
#2
09/28/2008 (12:55 pm)
You need to add a FoliageReplicator to your mission:

Hit F11 to the enter editor, hit F4 to activate World Editor Creator. In the mission inspector's bottom tree, open the nodes MissionObjects/Environment and add an fxFoliageReplicator. Give it a name (ie. Foliage1), and hit Ok.

Find more info about the foliage replicator here.

Associate Konrad Kiss
Bitgap Games
#3
09/28/2008 (12:56 pm)
Beat me to it. :)

Torque 3D Owner Todd Pickens
#4
09/28/2008 (1:54 pm)
TGEA does not do Z-billboarding correctly, fyi.

Torque Owner GI_JOEJK
#5
09/28/2008 (2:57 pm)
What do you mean by "Z-billboarding"? Are you talking about alpha sorting issues?