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Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Sebastien — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:18:53 -0000

sometime when i do usual work in 3dsmax i get this error since i have installed your Script

unknown property "lbl_status" in undefined

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Branko Živković — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:01:20 -0000

Hi Mark,
Your script tool is a life saver.Very nice!
Works great and smoothly.
Autodesk is not optimized their Compound objects 15 years
exept ProBoolien and ProCutter.
Although there are possibilities to do different things,
i think there are currently no a better tool for generating terrains.Cheers!

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Alexander Vartzbed — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:22:19 -0000

hi, I love the plugin but I'm fighting with it! I have a HIGHLY detailed world map I'm trying to make into a sphere, but everytime i use your plugin on one of the Countries, they suddenly become VERY VERY simple! or sometimes even disappear completely .. is there a way, to keep the outline intact and only with with the face itself?

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Ricardo Rivers. — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:11:11 -0000

I think my trouble is related to the Max version. Is it possible to get older versions of the plugin for older Max versions?. Thanks.

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Ricardo Rivers. — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:40:11 -0000

Hi, I'm trying to install the plugin over Max 9, but the plugin is located at Edit menu and give me an error: MAXScript MacroScript Error Exception -- Syntax error: at bad, expected <factor> -- In line: □</factor>

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Charles Daccache — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:39:17 -0000

HI,

AWESOME plugin... really very creative and unique... i use it a lot! :Dthank you soo much for your effort!

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Marc Lorenz — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:20:37 -0000

Ah ok I understand...it will result in 2 objects...I will think about it...

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Bruno Lopes — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:04:04 -0000

yes it may work, but you have to duplicate the geometry, and apply de invert to one, and disable to invert to the other duplicate.

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Marc Lorenz — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:42:13 -0000

Did you try the "invert" option? It should already be doing what you're looking for, if I understand correctly.

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Bruno Lopes — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:31:58 -0000

Instead of just trimming, that subtracts part of the geometry, splitting leaves the trimmed part in place :)

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Marc Lorenz — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:01:02 -0000

tell me more about it :)

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Bruno Lopes — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:53:51 -0000

Hello,

Love the script and the new features, but like the new trimmer, how about a "split" function?

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

scoob — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:31:01 -0000

I'm having the same issue in max 2012. I installed the plugin with the exe and I don't see it anywhere under the tools pull down menu. I got the Installation Complete messeage that says "...you can start it now from the main menu: Tools -> Populate:Terrain" but it's not there.

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Sameed Babar — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:23:34 -0000

where is your Script ??? VRay ambient occlusion 2.0

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Marc Lorenz — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:49:24 -0000

Next version will be a lot faster. Im looking into multi threading, but it seems very hard to split geometric operations into multiple threads in 3ds max without crashing.

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Asdf — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:19:32 -0000

If it were multi-threaded I would be so happy. I have a 12 core machine and its only chugging away with 1 core.....

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Christopher Pettit — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:33:42 -0000

Hey, anyway that it could use more than a single CPU? It doesn't seem multi-threaded.

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

bero — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:02:35 -0000

Script seems fantastic, now I hope I can get it to work on 2009 ;)

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Marc Lorenz — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:01:44 -0000

Sorry, 2010 and higher only, for different technical reasons!

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Lenshin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:59:22 -0000

Very good script. But it doesn't work under Max 2008(((. Can you check it?

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Marc Lorenz — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:08:21 -0000

That's one impressive terrain spline. Is it possible that you send me that file to office[at]populate3d .com , so I can look into it?

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

ericb666 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:55:40 -0000

All right. Let it worked for about 15 min and got some result. See attached images.

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

ericb666 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:33:18 -0000

I tried the script on my HP z800 ( xeon quad-core, win7, 12gig ram, quadro 4000) and here's what happening; I select the shape, press process and the progress bar goes to about 90% and then... nothing more. The command line says -boolean completed- but the computer still computing. Tried with various setting and everytime I must kill MAX to stop the process with no result. any cues ?

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Marc Lorenz — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:52:30 -0000

With lower subdivs it works? I'm currently working on a new version that greatly improves performance with high subdivs...

Re: Populate:Terrain development status

Sivakanesh Sivasambu — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:26:47 -0000

I've been looking for something like this for ever.
I'm trying this on a high poly terrain. Keeps on getting Unknown System Error.On Windows 7 64-bit with 14GB RAM. MAX 2011. Any ideas how I can get this to work? Thanks.