mosaic map that scatters on all objects...help please

[thatoneguy]

ScatterObjects = #($Box01,$Box02,$Box03,$Box04)
ScatterXWidth = 4
ScatterYHeight = 4
seed 11
ScatterArray = (for i = 1 to ScatterYHeight collect (for i = 1 to ScatterXWidth collect (Random 1 ScatterObjects.Count)))

fn DoStuffWithTheScatterArray ScatterArray =
(
for i = 1 to ScatterArray.count do
(
for j = 1 to ScatterArray[i].count do
(
print ScatterObjects[ScatterArray[i][j]]
--STUFF--
)
)
)
DoStuffWithTheScatterArray ScatterArray

[lukx]

Thanks Gavin but I'm not sure how to make it work :)
I created scene with few boxes , assigned material , ran the script and nothing happened.
There's something I should be aware of when using your script?

[thatoneguy]

Oh you want the *material* to actually do something!

Haha.

No the script doesn't do anything.

It just generates the "map" in a code format to do something.

Yeah... using a map for specific scattering is a lot more code or a PFlow solution.

[sjmoir]

I've made a pdf of how I use photoshop and pflow to scatter objects. It appears on this thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=630936) along with a fantastic script by Bobo which allows you to easily replace each particle with an object (vray mesh etc). The Vrayscatter plugin is cool... but not free.

[JHaywood]

Wouldn't this just be a matter of creating the random bitmap shown above and then adjusting the UV's (maybe on a channel other than 1) for each object so that they completely lie within one square?

[DaveWortley]

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=98&t=625833&page=3

Does this suite the requirements?

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