Mesh Grass

Twitch Axis · Nov 17, 2017

Well, here I am again, Mr. Amateur modder. Well, how do I even start...I have a ton of forest brushes, but when I try to use them, the little circle that spreads it all is grey. I came to the conclusion that in order to properly place down forest items, you have to add it as a "Forest Mesh." So I can do this fine with rocks and trees, but when it comes to doing it for brush and grass, I can't seem to even find where the forest item is located in the map folder directory to load it. Now, since it is grass it won't have collision, so I wouldn't even be able to load up a .dae file because I assume that there isn't one for grass. Could I just load up a texture of the grass? Someone please send some help before I go insane XD, I am going to be 80 before I finish this map.

Instances · Nov 17, 2017

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Twitch Axis · Nov 18, 2017

Darren9 said: ↑

Grass isn't added in the forest, it's a "Vegetation" item in "Level_objects". It's linked to a ground texture/material, for instance, everywhere you paint the grass texture the billboards or meshes show up at whatever density/size/ect. I don't think there's a guide to set them up anywhere, best to look in a stock map, find the section in the .level.json and copy it into yours (and also the folder "art/shapes/groudcover", and edit the paths in it's materials.cs).

Once you've got one copied in and working it becomes easier to see what's happening and edit it (hopefully, because I don't know enough to properly explain).

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Code:

          "class" : "SimGroup",
          "name" : "vegetation",
          "childs" : [
            {
              "class" : "GroundCover",
              "name" : "Grass",
              "position" : [ 268.3250122070313, 35.39390182495117, 413.6539916992188 ],
              "Material" : "BNGGrass_3",
              "Types" : [
                {
                  "billboardUVs" : [ 0, 0.00390625, 1, 0.9960939884185791 ],
                  "clumpExponent" : 3,
                  "layer" : "Grass",
                  "maxClumpCount" : 3,
                  "probability" : 1,
                  "sizeExponent" : 3,
                  "sizeMax" : 0.6000000238418579,
                  "sizeMin" : 0.2000000178813934,
                  "windScale" : 0.699999988079071
                },
                {},
                {},
                {},
                {},
                {},
                {},
                {}
              ],
              "dissolveRadius" : 70,
              "gridSize" : 8,
              "maxBillboardTiltAngle" : 40,
              "maxElements" : 300000,
              "radius" : 90,
              "windDirection" : [ 0, 0.5 ],
              "windGustFrequency" : 0.2000000029802322,
              "windGustStrength" : 0.6000000238418579,
              "windTurbulenceFrequency" : 0.2000000029802322,
              "windTurbulenceStrength" : 0.2249999940395355
            },
            {
              "class" : "GroundCover",
              "name" : "GrassTop",
              "position" : [ 99.38259887695313, 99.02239990234375, 442.1809997558594 ],
              "Material" : "grass_field",
              "Types" : [
                {
                  "layer" : "Grass",
                  "probability" : 1,
                  "shapeFilename" : "levels/Meteor/art/shapes/groundcover/grass_field_closetop.dae",
                  "sizeMax" : 0.800000011920929,
                  "sizeMin" : 0.4000000357627869
                },
                {},
                {},
                {},
                {},
                {},
                {},
                {}
              ],
              "maxElements" : 2000,
              "radius" : 15,
              "shapesCastShadows" : false
            },
            {
              "class" : "ForestWindEmitter",
              "position" : [ 150.7949981689453, 90.66259765625, 4.361830234527588 ],
              "gustFrequency" : 0.1000000014901161,
              "gustStrength" : 0.5,
              "gustWobbleStrength" : 1,
              "gustYawAngle" : 60,
              "gustYawFrequency" : 2,
              "hasMount" : "0",
              "strength" : 0.699999988079071,
              "turbulenceStrength" : 0.699999988079071
            }
          ]
        }

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Ah man, thanks, I actually found the groundcover folder with the .dae files so you actually can add them in the forest editor. Thanks so much!

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