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/Leadwerks/Projects/CrawlerDefense/Shaders/Vegetation/Shadow/billboard_top.shader"

and side shader are missing as well as

r/Shaders/Model/leaves.shader"

After I made this in a new and updated project.

Having a play with this new feature I'm blown away of how cool it is. Question. Will it be possible to set a min/max size for the layers to get even more variation in the future?

 

A possible improvement would be a min/max depth into the terrain. It would be cool for rocks and trees. I have tree models that would need to be moved lower in the modeling program, but having control in LE for that would be better.

 

Nice work Josh.

Pretty cool stuff, Josh! I also get a couple of missing shader errors, same as Slastraf.

 

The framerate is getting low at some point, depending on how dense the veggies are, but i guess you could still make a couple of performance optimizations. Overall, i really like the new vegetation (could also be used for non veggie stuff)! Well done!

 

Btw, i also noticed that the framerate is higher when the directionnal light comes from above, and decreases when the directionnal light comes from a lower angle.

The shader is there but its in a different folder. The materials for the grass, bush, and tree lists the leaves.shader in the Shader/Model folder, but its actually in the Shader/Vegetation folder. Make the changes to those materials and the errors go away.

 

Btw, i also noticed that the framerate is higher when the directionnal light comes from above, and decreases when the directionnal light comes from a lower angle.

I assume thats due to number and size of the shadows that are created.

Josh will we have any brushes too paint with grass/tree/stone models in terrain editor?

Just gave it a quick test go, pretty awesome.

Are these treated like normal entities in our code?

No, there's no individual entities at all.

I think you talked about this before but I'm trying to remember what you said with what if we want to "chop" down a tree?

Also, are we doing to get access to some of these vegetation layer properties in code? I can see the density property being useful in performance parameters for the given users PC.

Hooray, nav mesh is affected by vegetation collision shapes. Excellent.

 

Finally got to testing this today and I am really enjoying it.

It works very well and is easy to use. Now I just need access through code to really get to work!

THe infinity seems nice and all, and seems a big thing for MMO`s, but what going to do in games such as FPS, that some models really need to be synced in the same place for everybody?

@vfn4i83 The vegetation can actually be painted onto the terrain manually so it doesn't need to be infinite, you can decide areas in which it is placed. Also you can always just manually place models, without using the vegetation system, if they need to be in really specific positions.

Well tested for 5 minutes, in 5 minutes ! This can be summed in one word: Great, simply great. Now making full big map is no boring anymore, like throwing model after model. Pretty nice new feature !

 

Edit:

 

Only getting a problem with the model shape, not realy repoduced with the new tool: Player is going through my barrels, other shaped trees.

Somebody else found this ?