Any suggestions on where to begin to start making tall grass in 3dgs? Basically I want the player to be able to run through it and the grass moves and such. I know that probably requires collision checking for that to happen, right? I see this in so many 3d games, so I'm wondering how do I go about doing this? Thanks in advance.

you're probably best-off with tall quads (mdl) with tga textures (or even just overlayed transparency) that are animated (or programmed) to bend down, and you'd make them do this whenever the player (or any character you deem fit) is within a certain distance from them. you wouldn't want to use real collision detection functions due to their slowness (except c_scan might not be so bad).

hope this gives you a good idea

julz

Won't that make the game really slow with so many grass mdls on the screen at once like that?

yeah but there are workaround.. you might want to write a script to fade out distant grass the further away you are from them, then switch their invisible = on, also keeping a level kind of modest could help

Alright, when making the actual grass models on the level, I would need to already have the grass there in the main level *.WMB file so when you first start the program it loads the level with the grass on it?
If I have to do that, then is there a way to control how much of the grass is loaded initially when it loads the level? Is there an easier way to do this? or is this the standard way it's done?

This is what I had in mind what I wanted the grass to look like on the level (see below). Basically when you run over the grass (or even flowers) then the grass moves a little and/or reacts to the player touching the grass. Does that need to be programmed for each individual strand of grass? I'm just wondering what the secret is behind doing it efficiently (if there is one)