Looking to fill the roof of this building with individual tall grass components.
My problem is this: in order to space the components evenly I have resorted to creating a grid pattern along the roof (bubble A.) This is both time consuming when covering a large area, and also somewhat ineffective due to the complex shape an area can be.
I was wondering if there way a way to select an area (in this case the entire roof) and tell photoshop to place a component in the center of every 24" evenly spaced. Then if I desire them to be grouped tighter I could easily change the grid spacing from 24" to 18"?
There must be a way to place landscape components apart from manually inserting them.
You can run an extension over those arrays to get a less patterned, or stamped result.
See Chris Fullmer’s extensions… which adds in rotation, and also scales components as a group.
and as an alternative approach to the move tools array method… There is also a plugin called copy along path.
Using a combination of an irregular path, and then adding in the scale and rotation changes afterwards should get a fairly randomized field of tiled components.
