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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / make a 3d tree

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Ragoon
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2014 16:51
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Hii I'm a newbie at dark basic pro, I'm having trouble trying to create a 3d tree, i bought the tree party package but i am still having trouble implementing a tree in the project.The tree is saved with .tree file extension and i cannot insert it in the program. Please help thank you
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revenant chaos
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2014 22:20
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Hi Ragoon, welcome to the forums. The problem is that DBPro doesn't understand the *.tree file format. Ive never used tree party but I would assume it has a feature to export to *.x or *.dbo, either of which can be loaded directly within dbpro using the load object command.
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Chris Tate
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2014 02:02 Edited at: 3rd Jul 2014 02:03
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You have to use the tree loading function. This function is found in the tree party source code, and is demonstrated in the tree party examples. If I remember correctly; the function is called tpLoadTree, or something similar. Your tree party source code must be included and initialized by your program, and initialized before using its commands.

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CleoKraft
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Posted: 19th Jul 2014 07:28
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I've got an example of how I loaded my own trees here at the codebase ("simple terrain editor"): http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=codebase_view&i=0872e2a7ca8af097c85c1d53d0caebf3

Or download: http://www.4shared.com/zip/tDNlmmNt/terrainEditorV101_1_.html
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I actually split my trees into two objects (trunk and tree top) because I wanted better collision detection with the tree trunks. As already suggested above I'm using .x files.

My terrain editor seems to be a little buggy (not working quite like it did a few years ago when I coded it in that the "A/Z" keys to decrease/increase mesh height seem really buggy now - maybe it "broke" after a DB Pro update /shrug). However the tree planting ("P") command still works.
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