Scatter to respect displacement.

[zzubnik]

I don't know if this is already possible, or will be possible, but:

I'd like to be able to displace a landscape and then be able to scatter objects onto the displaced landscape. At the moment, the scattered objects seem to lie on the original mesh, not the displaced mesh.

This is using the displacement function and the scatter function provided by Corona.

Thanks.
/z

[cecofuli]

No, it's not possible. The same is for VRay. Cause displacement is create at render time. The solution could be by adding a displacement modifier on the landascape mesh

[zzubnik]

Hi, and thanks for the reply. I figured it would be like that, knowing that it's all created at render time. I just hoped that there could  be some magic that could be weaved.

Thanks again.

[Ondra]

It would be possible, but pretty ugly and absolutely not worth it. You don't need too detailed geometry for scattering, nothing viewport/scatter modifier would not handle.

[zzubnik]

Thanks for the answer. I was displacing the ground for an image of a Mars rover, and wanted to scatter smaller pebbles on top of that. It can be done using a lower-res ground mesh with a displace modifier to scatter on to without problem. I just thought it would be a nice addition.

Thanks for listening :)