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Hayes Davidson:
Hi

I'm having problems creating a cobbled street using railclone.  The alignment of the cobbles need to follow the twists of the street and the cobbles themselves should be arranged using a running bond alignment.  I've got the first part sorted (see attached images) but it's the second part that's causing problems.

The railclone is set up as an array using a spline for the X and then a Y Size, with the Y Mode set to free.  The X Spline defines the path of the street and the Y mode allows the cobbles to offset from this as it turns.  I've then created a full length cobble and a half length cobble to create the running bond as shown in the parquet floor tutorial.  The trouble is that the cobbles need to run lengthways along the Y axis, not the X axis as shown in the tutorial, and railclone doesn't seem to be able to close the gaps generated between the half size and full size cobbles.  Again this is shown in the attached images.

Ultimately we'd like to get lots of random length cobbles to run this way, but got stalled at this simpler version.

Can anyone help?  Are we approaching this in the wrong way?

Thanks

Rokas:
Good question! I struggle making this style too, my best attempt:

Paul Roberts:
Hi,

Do you have an illustration or photo of how this would work in real life? Though it is possible to offset alternate columns as is Rokas' example, as soon as Y mode is set to free, each row's length is calculated independently and the columns would become out of alignment. But if the cobbles are always of a fixed dimension I can't see a way this wouldn't also happen in the real world. I tried looking up this scenario up online but I couldn't find any good reference.

Thanks,

Paul

TL1895:
Also would like to know this method.  I know from having installed such cobbles with curves, that Rokas's example looks correct, except the stones should not stretch/grow around the corners.  Usually the cobbles would have almost identical dimensions, with cut stones (with a diamond saw blade) taking place as needed to make the radius.

TL1895:

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