So I have many house models, and I want to array all of them in random order over a certain area to make a neighborhood.
Does anyone know a good way to do this or maybe a tutorial? Thanks.
So I have many house models, and I want to array all of them in random order over a certain area to make a neighborhood.
Does anyone know a good way to do this or maybe a tutorial? Thanks.
Donāt neighbourhoods still follow some sort of planned pattern or grid system?
You could make a square array of houses (50*50 houses for examples) and then just delete random houses out of the grid. Thatās the system I used to create this map of Africa quickly: https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/008/020/471/large/liam-keating-lt2.jpg?1509977741
You can then go in and just rotate a few random houses in the grid. However this method would not be helpful if youāre neighbourhood does not follow a grid!
here are some plugins that may be helpful,
Not sure if you can substitute trees for houses but this is Component Spray as I did not read the entire PDF but you can see it here: Sign in ć» Cloudflare Access and here http://www.crai.archi.fr/rld/
There is also this Drop plugin: Smustard(TM) - the Companion to Sketchup(TM) - Drop
That spray tool looks good. I will try it out.
Thanks!
How many house models are you talking about?
If I was doing it I would:
Edit: clarity
Edit Edit: I used the same method for this picture. Originally I had 11 types or server towers (similar to having 11 types of houses in your case) however in the final version I only used four and deleted the other layers
I donāt know about extensions for this sort of thing, but I thought of simply using āreplace selectedā. It might be useful but Iām not too sureā¦
Haā¦ doh that would have saved me a couple of hours a few months ago
Ok. Thanks. I will try some of these things.
I would combine some of the ārandom selectā plugins (like TIG.s or Eneroth3:s) with this āreplace selectedā method.
Yes. Good idea.
Itās something I quickly thought of but still fairly manual if itās a densely populated model.
I think I saw an extension once that did ārandom rotationā. I thought there would be others to suit this case.
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