UDK Populate. An Object placing tool

leviatan1001

Hey,
I've made this tool to make my life easier. Its very useful to place objects using max, with placing scripts, reactor...


Youtube Video

Hellfire

Wow very nice work, place the object as instance?

ParoXum

Awesome David, I hope you can release it soon.

The physic simulation is the best bit.

Also try embeding the video this way:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h5ySzmUN4M"]UDK Populate. Object placing tool - YouTube[/ame]

Computron

does this support the wierd way that the foliage system instances objects?

leviatan1001

Thanks Vincent, I had no idea how to do that ^^

The objects you place will be an instance of the source object.
I have never used the foliage system, but if the actor has Location and Rotation, the tool can handle it.

passerby

looks pretty nice, does anyone know if there is anything similar for maya?

haiddasalami

Hey leviatan. Sweet tool, any word on file type used?

Got my answer on tech-artists :thumbup: Definitely a clever way.

leviatan1001

Hehe, yeah, since all I have to do is to parse text, the clipboard is the way

passerby

how does it, work, do the objects need to already be imported to udk from the content browser, or it just grabs them from max it's self.

Xoliul

This is verrry cool, people at work might even be interested when you release this!

e-freak

the clipboard paste is pretty cool. good job and cool idea. how do you specify though, which object udk should place from the packages?

mLichy

I wonder if Epic Games has anything like this, or if they even thought about a tool similar to this. Looks awesome

leviatan1001

The object must exist in unreal. As you can see in the video, the step one is getting the object's data in unreal. So I can handle that data later in 3ds.

jocose

awsome

Computron

so did you just export all your scene's meshes as a single monolithic .FBX to have 3ds max match it?

rasmus

Very cool.