Placing Large number of Buildings on a terrain?

[Sketchrender]

As above.

I have a very large amount of Buildings, a city scape to drop on to a terrained surface.

I presume there is the inequivalent to the sand box tool of sketchup, in max.

I cant find it.

 

Any help would be great.

 

 

Thank you

 

Phil

[RyderSK]

I don't remember how I did it before...but now I use this free script :- )

 

http://www.itoosoft.com/freeplugins/glue.php

 

Here is very similiar script as well

 

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/move-to-surface

[Sketchrender]

Thank you .

Couldn't find it when I looked.

I thought it was built in to max now.

But thank you.

 

I have another question on multi scatter .

Can a tree be placed at a point on a line?

So every point plotted has a tree on it ?

Phil

 

Phil

[RyderSK]

Thank you .

Couldn't find it when I looked.

I thought it was built in to max now.

But thank you.

 

I have another question on multi scatter .

Can a tree be placed at a point on a line?

So every point plotted has a tree on it ?

Phil

 

Phil

 

 

Well I am pretty sure it's there too but can't figure out what it is either :- )

[Sketchrender]

Juraj

 

Thank you for the reply.

 

I have had a look this morning and can not see a away of ding it in Multiscatter, scatter being the word.

 

I do remember somebody had a script an Italian guy who did a massive master plan in the desert an entire city and he had worked it out.

 

Anyway if anybody has an idea of how to do it I would be grateful.

 

I might put up a separate post as I have to have it worked out soon, and placing them by hand will take a day.

 

By the love the image you have in your gallery.

 

HDRI lighting is excellent.

 

Take care

 

phil

[RyderSK]

Aren't those tutorials from Vyonyx ? They showcased 2 projects where they distributed trees on spaces, by spline, and by points. But they used VUE on both of those, though I am not sure.

 

I am very sure Forest Pack can do it, since it has better distribution methods than Multiscatter.

Can't you use spline distribution for this ?

 

Thank you btw, I am glad you like my work :- )

[Simon Moir]

Try the Clone and Align tool.

[Corey Beaulieu]

You can also use the graphite modeling tools, object paint. It includes: random scaling, rotation, scatter, normal align (or uncheck for z align), paint spacing, etc. its a great tool.