I'm on my first full day with Vue 5I and am so far very impressed... BUT...

Is it wise to make ecosystems on procedural terrains? I can do it, but I keep getting exclamation marks on the preview of the terrain. In addition, the instances and the terrain keep "seperating" after being okay in the beginning. The instances start to float above the underlying terrain.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks!

Message edited on: 03/25/2005 21:15

Hi, I've been doing some very large procedural terrains, populating up to about 11billion polys with the eco system. I've not seen this problem you've had once. Occasionally it will run out of memory and I'll need to restart but not this separation you have. On the off chance, have you got the beta update for 5i from the eon website? V5i won't automatically update this one as it's still in beta. Perhaps this fixes the problem you're having with a bit of luck :)

I think I may have solved the problem with the settings in Ecosystems. Yes, I downloaded the beta update. Ironically, Vue crashed on me with the update, but I was running my browser in the background. I'm hoping that was the cause.

I've found that playing around with lots of different ecosystems on massive procedural terrains is a sure fire way to get "out of memory" and need to restart.