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Basically I know what I want but im not sure how to implement it...
Ive built an island and I now want to start to populate it with objects. Rather than loading the objects and positoning them by hand Im going to create a single poly and position it on my island, aligning it to the surface. This would then be the position for my tree. I will then copy this poly many times basically creating a poly object map that tells me where all the trees should be positioned. I then must export this file as treepostionmap.x . How would i go about reading this into DBpro and instancing the trees onto all the polys positions? I need to be able to read from the file how many polys there are, instance the tree models that many times and position/orientate the trees onto all the polys in the map.
It would also be nice if it could be expanded so that I could have other object types in this file later on.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Monkee

dunno what would be more performance expensive, if that (a polygon per object) or a different material ...well, sems the polygon idea is better.

All you're doing is getting the position/orientation informatioin off the poly from its pivot point. You put a transparent material on it so that it does not render. I've used this technique b4 on a PS2 game I was working on but because im an artist more than a programmer im not sure how to write the code.