you're probably right. In fact objects have to be a lot smaller than the
landscape itself in order to get good results.
This macro is going beyond my own aspectatives (I just wanted to randomly
place objects on a plane), but now I feel I have to go further.
How many normals vectors you think I should average?

Jonathan.

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> "JRG" <jrg### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> > ...and here's how it looks with a heightfield.
> > 2700 spikes and no probability map this time.
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>     Ok, this is cool and all, but it looks like your normal orientation is
> reading one point only. In a situation like this, it might be nice if it
> were able to average the normals in the local area. that way they would
all
> seem to stick out of the ground at what we perceive as the general tilt of
> the ground in that area.
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>     Just an idea...
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