Ashfall Compatible Meshes
If you want to convert your tree replacer meshes to have the tree-felling animations, perform the following steps:
- Cut trunk in half, at a point that is likely to be above ground but not above the player's head
- Use Shift+K in blender to enable knife tool to cut through the entire mesh
- Drop the lower trunk down by roughly the height of the trunk
- Drop it by a specific number along the Z axis, e.g. G->Z->-1 so it's easier to move it back up to the exact original position
- Fill in each hole with a new face (Alt-click edges, F to fill), then separate
- Assign an appropriate wood ring texture to the new faces, and UV map
- In UV editor select both faces, press 7 to get birds eye view, then select UV->Project from View (bounds)).
- Place the lower trunk and lower ring face into a new node and name it ASHFALL_STUMP
- Create a new node with its origin in the middle of where the lower trunk ring face is currently situated
- Select the cursor and click on the middle of the face, then do Shift+A->Empty->Plain Axes
- Name this node ASHFALL_TREEFALL
- Move everything that isn't in ASHFALL_STUMP into the new ASHFALL_TREEFALL node
- Move ASHFALL_STUMP back to its original position
Notes:
- If you are using LOD nodes, only perform these steps for the closest node, but make sure the other nodes don't kick in until at least 9000 units.
- Test how the ASHFALL_TREEFALL node looks by rotating it along the X or Y axis and adjust the origin height as needed. It should glide off the bottom trunk without too much clipping.
