Now THAT is what I call clarification. Good fuckin job bro.

I tried it exactly how you described and it worked perfectly. This was very easy to do, took me like 10 minutes. Awesome tutorial bro. If I could rep I would.

That's why I said to modify the timestamps by the same factor.

Alright that's cool and all, but I like I said I don't understand what that means.

EDIT: Ah okay I get it now.

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To make the model animation go faster, you need to adjust the timestamps located in the structBone > structBone_Bones() > structABlock > structTimestamps

To make the animation go faster, you need to HALF the timestamp values. So for example

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if you want to make the model go 100% faster you'd half it like...

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After you do all that, you need to change the unit32Length located in the structAnimations to whatever your maximum value is. So it would go from 1000 to now being 500.

Bumping this old thread because I'm trying to do the same thing, and even though the problem was solved, the solution wasn't listed. I've been fiddling around with the settings and I can't figure it out.

I'd like to report that this has been tested and confirmed. Certain models yield smaller densities with high clustering.

I think it has to do with the size of the model. Larger models make clumps. Especially if paired with other models.

it simply looks that 6sa one makes bigger density, because that model itself is bigger.

You read it backwards my friend. The small bush has more density than the spiresofarrak model.

I just recently stumbled upon an issue where my doodads weren't showing up on top of my texture, but it showed up just fine on another one.

After some experimentation I realized that no matter what, if your 3rd texture (maybe 4th too idk) is sitting on top of the chunk's 2nd texture, it does not spawn doodads.

Here as an example below:



The image shows mostly a 2x2 square of chunks. All 4 chunks have 3 textures on them, dirt, forestfloor, and grass. On the left side you can see the forest floor on top of the dirt, and the grass on top of the forest floor. On the right side, all 3 textures are present, however the forest floor texture is not touching the grass texture.

On the left side the doodads did not spawn because the grass is touching the forest floor, where as on the right side the doodads did spawn because the grass is not touching the forest floor.

By this experiment you can see that the 3rd texture will not spawn doodads on its chunk if it is touching the 2nd texture.

I don't know if it's just GroundEffectAdder, or if that's just how WoW's engine works. Either way, I felt it was important to share this before anyone made the mistake.

As long as one won't experience performance drops in such zones and as long as those models don't get bugged collisions (like sometimes happens in Noggit when it comes to bigger models) it looks pretty cool indeed. I have been experimenting with basically the same system as well earlier and it was quite tedious, so GL with it.

Well the zone I'm designing has a super high ass amount of m2s laid throughout it, and I play on maximum settings with a dogshit PC so I'd imagine performance wouldn't be much issue to most people. Also yeah I tested the collision problem too, and adjusted the models to be as large as possible without collision boxes getting fucked.

I really like the way it's turning out so far. It's also a faster alternative to some of the other mountain styles, and it never looks repetitive.

So I've been experimenting with mountain styles lately, because with the project I'm working on I really wanted some more realistic looking mountain styles. Blizzard's just don't cut it. I really like the look of skyrim's mountains and so I recently tried out the same look using various rock m2s from different zones and retexturing them to all be the same color. Just wanted to see what you guys think of this style.



The gray texture spots are where I plan to put more m2s. They are placeholder textures. The mountain itself isn't done, obviously, I just wanted to show the m2 style real quick.

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These are in-game screenshots with the persistent snowy blizzard.