Trees: Edit maps for better Trees

My video card says ow.

Pxtl if you are worried about performance fear not:
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=421726#p421726
That trees models do not use much GPU, them can even run it in max on a INTEL GMA 950, and i heard every Glaive uses hundreds of triangles, from the models treads in this very forum, so Spring/ZK is more CPU limited that GPU limited....

Trees will have no real impact in FPS, and you can even disability their rendering in setting if you want too...

One more SS to at least stimulates mappers to use it in the new maps them make, if them do not want to edit old ones.

burn the trees!!!!
BURN THE TREES!!!!
im all for the idea of paving over the map, it sounds good
trees get in the way of my laser cannons

did you just rez 2 years old thing

Those are not Spring Engine trees, though some might have been ported to Spring Features package. Apparently, they're for a whole separate attempt to remake OTA in 2010 called ta3d.

You can find the models here, apparently the format is Rhino3d, a proprietary format . Conversion will be required, and i'm not sure that, for example, Blender can do it. Unless someone did the work already, the feature definition files would have to be redone. And i'm not even sure where they put the textures.

Maybe their own bundled modelling utility can do something if it hasn't bitrotten into nothing since then.

Using features for trees in Spring is a rather unpleasant experience, since they will simply disappear when crushed, so you get to choose between tolerating that or making trees uncrushable. When shot, they will also just disappear, no fire, no animation. But of course it still looks better.

(!invok knorke to explain that there are workarounds and their cost)

quote: Workaround 1

I think what knorke did was forbid the feature from being destroyed in the callin, then rotate it 90 degrees over a period of time, then remove it.

"bitrotten" means that the code has become too deprecated to do the job, usually due to changing data standards or workflows of other programs.