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Am I the only one having a busload of trouble with this command?

I mean, it works perfectly if you set the Y of a camera to follow the Terrain Height, but as soon as I place an object to follow the Y of the Terrain Height, it will flip between hovering a mile above the Y or disappearing into the terrain itself.

What kind of problem is this? Is there a necessity to scale the math in some way, or are the scales within DB simply messed up, returning faulty values?

I guess the answer is quite simple, and probably somewhere along the line of "your code is buggy, dude," but I would greatly appreciate an answer from someone that may even have experienced the same problem.

Apart from the short supplied code, the only thing the program does is that it loads the object and the terrain, plus textures. So please - someone with more of a math brain than I, just figure it out

I can't test this here as I've no DBP here, but the reason the object is in the terrain is most likely that the y value of the object corresponds to the very centre of the object, which causes the object to be half submerged in the terrain. So if your object is 10 in height, you'd use:

position object 1,x#,get terrain height(1,x#,z#)+5,z#

Cheers,
Kentaree

Well, the problem is not that half of the object is inside the terrain. That is easily compensated for when making the object in 3DSMax - you just move it above the center of the grid.

The problem IS, however, that the object doesn't correspond to the actual Y of the Get Terrain Height() command. It seems to mess things up. Sometimes, as I wrote, the model will fly miles above the supposed Terrain Height, whereas it may otherwise find itself inside the Terrain Height.

And... I can honestly not understand why that is happening. It is as if the model and the terrain would use different scales, or something. Just plain odd!

I believe the get terrain height gets the height of the terrain on its X,Y coordinate in relationship to its division like the get matrix height...it doesnt get the height of the terrain at any X,Y coordiante just the one that are cooresponding to its vertexes...but i do have a solution...i will have to look it up when i get home but i know the equation to get the height of a matrix when programming a 3D engine and its simple to incorporate into DBPro...