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Rye
05-17-2004, 06:05 PM
I'm not sure how to explain this problem, but I have a cylinder that needs to have hundreds of small rocks attatched to it. Without using particles, is there anyway to do this, and have a non uniform look, without applying each object by hand to the cylinder? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I need to figure out how to do this quick!
mouj
05-17-2004, 06:21 PM
Hey there,
i'd say you could use the Scatter tool, that "randomly scatters the selected source object either as an array, or over the surface of a distribution object" (taken from help file), or maybe a simple array but you won't get as much randomness.

mouj
Rye
05-17-2004, 06:41 PM
hey thanks mouj, for some reaon i didnt even think to look up scatter in the help file. i wasnt sure if that was the right word

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