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Terrain; Billboards cutting off artwork for custom trees

We've created some custom trees by editing the textures and layout of some existing trees, which were created with Tree Creator.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem with our custom trees: the billboards they generate are obviously cut off. So when the transition to billboarded version happens, or if you see the trees at a distance, they look bad. Like so:

The question is, can we edit the way in which the billboard versions of the trees are generated? How does this work? I know from the docs it happens at run time. Can we tweak it at all? Why is it generating incorrectly? alt text

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asked Apr 12 '12 at 12:26 AM

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in the tree generator on the main branch(When you start fresh it is the first branch also it is at the bottom of the tree chart.) there is a height option. Make it higher and see if that will keep the billboards from cutting off. If that doesn't work decrease the size of the billboard leaves. Its never really happened to me so these are just reasons i can think of.

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answered Apr 12 '12 at 01:42 AM

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So, I've played with changing the height and width of the tree by making the branches longer or shorter. I've also played with making the trees much smaller total. In all cases, the billboard is cut off. If you make the trees short and fat, it's cut off on the sides instead of the top.

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answered Apr 12 '12 at 03:51 PM

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I guess no one else has any idea and/or no one has seen this problem? :(

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answered Apr 19 '12 at 10:28 PM

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