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Chulit

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Help with wood railing - Several evenlies?
« on: March 22, 2025, 05:42:32 PM »
Hi, just asking for some pointer on how to approach this simple railing setup I am attaching.

As you can see, the longer posts (the ones that reach the floor) replaces one of the short evenly segments when some distance threshold is reached. And then, ideally, they should be justified (even if it doens't look like that in my image).
I am having a hard time figuring out some economic and smart setup that reach this goal.

I already made an array that geometrically meets this goal with some usual setup, but that leaves me with too much final segments and uv discontinuities.

I want to have the horizontal boards in an independent scaled segment, as I want to UV map them in one direction without uv seams, and then just one segment for each long and short posts.
I am sure there is some simple setup that I a overlooking, but I am stuck for now.

Thanls and best regards!

Edit: Sorry, I didn't mention that there are already some start and corner segments that I am not showing here, but that are used in the final implementation. This problem I am presenting is in the regular sections of the spline. Tx

« Last Edit: March 22, 2025, 05:48:09 PM by Chulit »

Michal Karmazín

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Re: Help with wood railing - Several evenlies?
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2025, 09:27:48 AM »
Hi,

You can add a second level of evenly spaced segments between the generator's built-in Evenly segments using the bundled Macros > Transforms > Sub-Evenly macro. Please find attached a sample scene demonstrating the recommended setup. Regarding mapping, you might find it useful to apply it directly within the RailClone plug-in by enabling the Deform > Mapping > Apply Box Mapping feature. For more detailed instructions on how To Add Box Mapping to Segments, please refer to our online reference guide.

I hope that helps.

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Chulit

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Re: Help with wood railing - Several evenlies?
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2025, 03:31:59 AM »
Thanks Michal! And thanks for the example.
Will look into it tomorrow and let you know.
Best regards