spinning trees

[TRAFMAN]

found a bug with the trees!

if you move the camera upwards, to get a top down view, the trees try to stay cacing the camera and go all crazy spinny!

i will get a screenshot when i get round to it!

[Bigland]

This sounds like the weird effect I got on the demo. Haven't been able to recreate it on the full game (plus patch) though.

[TRAFMAN]

i have the patch too.

maybe was just with one kind of tree...

[Silkius]

3d or 2d trees? Not seen it myself, but as some of the trees seems to turn to face you (most obvious on spooky trees) a verticle view might confuse them (as in don't know which way to turn :) )
Think it might be something to do with the same kind of face rendering for walls etc., (i.e. designed to be seen from a certain side, to save rendering resources, and so auto turn to face the way you are viewing) therefore dead top down would do just as you say.

[TRAFMAN]

nope it was just some normal evergreen trees

[Silkius]

I meant it was most obvious on spooky trees cos they have a more definate face (so to speak) but I think the others are all similar (just that they would kinda look the same from all views) but not quite - have kinda noticed it myself - not spinning per-se but where a branch should've faced right from the north on a rotation you find it still faces left.
Having spent some time painting trees in the past and being rather into Bonsai - you kinda notice these things, but just shrug it off cos its only a game :)

[TRAFMAN]

this was really odd, i will screenshot it tommorow, but when the camera went verticle doen the trees stayeyed at a 90 degree to the camera, not the floor, they ended up just lying on the floorspinning on the base of thier trunk. was quite funny actually.

[daboywunda]

yay.. a thread i can answer!

Its to do with the settings you have for the trees. If it's set to 2D trees, then that will happen because only one face of the tree is shown/rendered, so no matter where you look, you will always get the same side of the tree. However, with 3D trees this problem does not occur, because the entire tree and all of it's sides are rendered.

The spinning thing is wierd tho... happened to me alot until i realised that there are 2 settings for the trees!? I dunno why it happens TBH!

[eddie_4720]

You must be getting this with the 2D trees, not 3D trees, remember, if you're computer can't handle it, dont switch the 3D option on.