populate script

[Koper]

I saw a script that a guy once used to populate a whole neighbourhood of houses. He modelled about 5 houses with their gardens and a piece of street, then ran the script. a whole city was created with those 5 blocks and they were placed randomly and their edges lined up perfectly

 

does anyone know of that a script?

[postite]

Perhaps you could do that with Greeble for 3ds. It's not a script but a plugin.

[Koper]

thanx, but greeble ain't gonna work, I have modelled 20 high detailed special bricks and need to populate them over many planes randomly with the edges lined up exactly.

 

i have now created a very big displacement map and it looks like it just might work.

 

but i still wanna know what the guy used

 

thanx

[SandmanNinja]

I can think of a couple different ways to do it.

 

1) there is a Placement Script at http://www.3d-palace.com - that will allow you to take an object as a master and 'paint' with it - either like a brush or by carefully clicking. It's pretty cool.

 

2) use particles to spray the area with your detailed shape. There is (another) tutorial at http://www.3d-palace.com that uses this (Master Seminar 2007) - the download price is (I think) 20 Pounds. The author details a nice section of a hanger and using the particle system sprays it so that it covers a big area.