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Subject: Wind with Ecosystems

Cobthaich opened this issue on Jun 03, 2005 ยท 9 posts
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Cobthaich ( ) posted Fri, 03 June 2005 at 2:10 PM ยท edited Sun, 09 February 2025 at 5:33 PM

Hi all, I was wondering if you have the ability to use wind with the new ecosystems. I am intersted in the product but from what I have been reading it seems the ecosystems are maps with an alpha channel, looks like that from pictures. I am not sure though, maybe somone can clarify that for me. Thanks all, cheers. Cob

lanaloe77 ( ) posted Fri, 03 June 2005 at 2:55 PM

Yes,wind is able to be used with ecosystems and ecosystems are not maps. Ecosystems are 3d objects with unique controls for manipulation. I think they are instances.

Cobthaich ( ) posted Fri, 03 June 2005 at 3:53 PM

great, thanks for the info, very much appreciated. Cheers Lanloe77.

bruno021 ( ) posted Sun, 05 June 2005 at 6:22 AM

Ecosystems are instances alright, but I don't think you can use wind on them, since they are considered a material of the underlying terrain/object. Would be great though if you could use wind on thousand of instanced trees.


jwhitham ( ) posted Sun, 05 June 2005 at 9:56 AM

Wind does work on eco instances, needs enabling in the atmosphere editor, however the direction cannot be modified.

bruno021 ( ) posted Sun, 05 June 2005 at 11:02 AM

Really? Cool! Hadn't seen this in the manual.


Cobthaich ( ) posted Sun, 05 June 2005 at 11:54 AM

thanks for the info guys:)

jwhitham ( ) posted Sun, 05 June 2005 at 12:30 PM

Oops! I have to correct myself, it is breeze not wind that works with eco's. Sorry about that.

jwhitham ( ) posted Sun, 05 June 2005 at 1:01 PM

Also, Steve Bell noted in the e-on forum that you can use wind by appying to a plant, saving as VOB then populating with the new object. I haven't actually tried this. Unless you're looking for a very powerful storm, I find the effects of breeze more realistic than wind anyway.

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