House builder via nested Cloner
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I have a similar question about nested cloners. The child object is a house with cloners used to generate different doorway and windows configurations using a random effector. This object is then put into a parent cloner to populate my scene. I’m trying to figure out how I can randomly generate a new building for each clone in the parent cloner. I’ve even experimented with expresso Set Driver/Driven for randomization of the seed values with limited success.
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Hi R.Pinon,
Perhaps try to distribute individual items via a map in the shader Effector.
I have buid a few of those cities 15 years ago with MoGraph for a film (printed on celuloid). The footage was screened at many larger festivals, and the renderings have held up on even very large screens. (Many awards for this, including best of festival short, to validate that it worked)
A short series of the creations are here.
https://cineversity.maxon.net/en/series/jet_speed_modeling_city?tutorial=speed-modeling_city_part_06It's not what you asked for, but the Shader effector produced around 5,000 individual buildings, if I recall the number correctly.
Did you ask in the ATT last week?
Here are three examples.
Blend with XPresso, the trick is to use the UserData, as the Cloner doesn't see the XPresso for each Clone otherwise.
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With the Field driver, you might have the most success. As you can setup many of those, which leads to solution previously not easily (if at all) achievableI have this week off (Thanksgiving), but please ask if you need this now, I'm happy to look into it.
Cheers
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Thanks for your reply. I’ll give them a try tomorrow. Yes, I asked in the ATT last week (I posted the question here, and Noseman partially answered my question).
I’m definitely going to try to be more active here in the forums.
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Thank you very much, R.Pinon.
If you have a little example, I'm happy to look into it.
Yes, please feel free to ask whatever is on your mind regarding Maxon Apps.
Enjoy
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I’ll post a sample scene here tomorrow. (Working on a personal holiday greeting project.)
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Great, R.Pinon.
I have listed some options above (first post) - if you can't use any of these options, I can share here a DropBox Upload link.
Cheers
