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williamwonka

12-10-2004, 03:15 AM

Can I scatter an object without having the objects overlap?

If not, maybe there's another way to accomplish what I want. I want to evenly line up an object, but I also want to use scatter's random rotation/translation, so spacing tool doesn't meet my need.

Wahooney

12-10-2004, 05:59 AM

You may want to use particle flow. Use a Position Object Operator with a separation, that way you can evenly distribute objects over the surface and reduce your overlap.

Besides that, all I can recommend is that you scatter the objects and delete the overlaps by hand.

williamwonka

12-10-2004, 06:35 AM

I'm gonna give that a try. Thanks.

ssalo

12-10-2004, 06:51 AM

Yes, use scatter and then apply Edit Mesh on top of it and delete/move overlapping objects. Polygon Element -submode is good for that. I've used that method a lot.

galagast

12-10-2004, 07:17 AM

theres also a similar way of scattering objects by using Crowd. but i cant really remember if it allows separation. :)

Ojah

12-10-2004, 11:29 AM

by using the scatter within the crowd helper you can set the distance the objects need to be appart from each other.. but you can only scatter within a box, sphere, or on a grid object.

williamwonka

12-11-2004, 12:31 AM

Thanks all. Last night I had a chance to experiment a bit. You can see that I've managed to evenly scattered the roof tiles and have some random translations, resulting in a worn and not-so-neat tilings!

http://www.omgosh.com/files/court yard_illu_beta_2 copy.jpg

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