Placing on terrain

[Elfinitiy]

Ok so suppose I have a terrain from a heightmap and it has a hill.
How can i place a AnimatedMesh,without setting the y pos.
Like just specify x/z and it locates the y of the hill and places the model (tree for example) on top of it.

[serengeor]

Hm, by doing something called programming.
1) Open up irrlicht api if you don't know what things can you do with each class/function or don't know if there is a class/function for that.
2) Find class/function. (http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/cl ... _node.html)
And this might be just the function you need:

virtual f32 getHeight (f32 x, f32 y) const =0
Get height of a point of the terrain.

Use it to get the height and place your tree or w/e you want there.

[Elfinitiy]

This I know very well.
My question was,IS there another way like the one I mentioned earlier ?

[serengeor]

This I know very well.
My question was,IS there another way like the one I mentioned earlier ?

And what exactly did you mention?

[Elfinitiy]

Like just specify x/z and it locates the y of the hill and places the model (tree for example) on top of it.

Something similar to
Attaching a weapon to the camera.
I don't locate the camera position and then set the weapon pos to camera.pos+weapon.pos,but specify the weapon position from the camera perspective directly.
Something similar here

[hybrid]

Well, it does not work automatically, but adding just two calls (one getHeight on the proper position and then the setPosition on the node with the new height) seems to be pretty easy. Why don't you use that?

[Elfinitiy]

Well, it does not work automatically, but adding just two calls (one getHeight on the proper position and then the setPosition on the node with the new height) seems to be pretty easy. Why don't you use that?

Because when I think of something,I always know there has to be a better way.

Too bad its the only way thou

[nespa]

try a collision response animator, will be done automatically.