"Dropping" objects onto a surface

[Chris MacDonald]

Hey guys & girls,

 

I'm currently modelling a rather large site and am going to start putting in levels, etc. I've got all of the houses modelled and placed in their correct x/y positions, but I'm wondering what the best method would be to place them on the Z axis? Moving each and every house to ground level by hand would be extremely time consuming.

 

Does anybody know if there is a simple way to do this in max, or whether there is a script that will do this for me? Ideally a parametric method would be amazing, but really anything that saves me having to do it manually would be great.

 

Thanks in anticipation,

 

Chris

[andstef]

hello,

 

you should try this script called Move to Surface on scriptspot.com

 

I hope it works for you,

 

Cheers

[Chris MacDonald]

That looks perfect, thank you very much

[Jose Negrete]

I use object dropper from soulburn scripts.

 

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_tools/soulburnscripts/soulburnscripts.htm

[notamondayfan]

I use object dropper from soulburn scripts.

 

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_tools/soulburnscripts/soulburnscripts.htm

 

I use that too, plus loads of other scripts from the collection.

[cg_Butler]

I use the glur plugin for iToo

 

http://www.itoosoft.com/downloads/free_plugins.php