[Personal] - Opening Scene Update

I have managed to come up with a solution to my opening scene problem.

I was having trouble coming up with a way of making parts of the words disappear when the lawn mower drove over them. I tried to use the visibility option, but this didnt work as it would apply visibility to the whole object, rather than individual polygons.

However, I did manage to come up with another way to create the illusion of the letters disappearing. I did this by creating a plane the exact width of the lawn mower, and placed it underneath the other grass plane along the path that the lawn mower takes. I then used the Auto Key function to make parts of this new plane to rise above the words as the lawn mower drives over it. Due to the birds eye camera view, it is impossible to see that the new plane is infact hovering a few inches above the letters. I then applied the same material texture to it as the grass plane and made it slightly lighter to create the effect of the old grass being replaced by the new fresh grass.


Also, as it can be seen, I have changed the grass material. This material is much more effective because A) - it is evenly spread, meaning that I can overlap the same material again and again and it would not be obvious, and B) - It makes it much easier to read the text. I have also applied this material to the main scene.