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Title: making a continous line of objects based on one object
Post by: mitviz on April 19, 2016, 01:37:18 PM

i have a hedge i want to follow along a long spline or path but be continous, is this possible in railclone and if so how?(http://)

Title: Re: making a continous line of objects based on one object
Post by: Paul Roberts on April 19, 2016, 01:44:35 PM

HI!

Look at your source model I'd say that you should just be able to add a segment like that to the Default input in RailClone and you're good to go. You'll need to adjust the Padding a little to overlap segments and make sure there wasn't a visible joint but I can imagine that would work nicely.

If you're having a particular problem with the source model working with RailClone, let me know the details and/or the file and I'll do my best to help out.

Many Thanks,

Paul

Title: Re: making a continous line of objects based on one object
Post by: mitviz on April 19, 2016, 01:47:27 PM

ahmm can you point me to a specific tutorial on how to do this? am lost when it come to using the nodes etc

Title: Re: making a continous line of objects based on one object
Post by: mitviz on April 19, 2016, 02:27:02 PM

idk should i add some new library? really unsure

Title: Re: making a continous line of objects based on one object
Post by: mitviz on April 19, 2016, 02:32:49 PM

ok i think i know what you mean now but i dont see anything happening

Title: Re: making a continous line of objects based on one object
Post by: mitviz on April 19, 2016, 02:37:24 PM

here is the file with model and spline

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sshpukq6d8neodo/Untitled.max?dl=0

Title: Re: making a continous line of objects based on one object
Post by: Paul Roberts on April 19, 2016, 03:10:54 PM

Thanks for the file.

You're not seeing the image because RailClone has exceeded one or more of it's limits. You'll find these in the Display rollout.

(http://i.imgur.com/2lQ301l.png)


However, instead of increasing these limits, I'd recommend optimising the style so that as much of it is instanced as possible. To do this it's helpful to understand when a segment is converted to non- instanced geometry, basically there are two rules:

• Geometry is instanced as long as it is not deformed
• Geometry is instanced as long as it is not sliced

Because the curves in your hedge are over a very large area, I think you'll be able to turn off bend without seeing any visible problems and thus maintain instancing, saving loads of memory. If we turn off slicing too, we get a highly optimised and low memory style. To do this.

1. Select the hedge segment, go to the properties and turn off Bend and Slice.

(http://i.imgur.com/4SUmk8V.png)

2. Go to the Generator's Properties and change the Default Mode to Adaptive.

(http://i.imgur.com/mtTqcof.png)

I've attached a version of your file with those changes.

I hope that helps, please let me know if you have any further questions.

Many Thanks,

Paul

Title: Re: making a continous line of objects based on one object
Post by: mitviz on April 19, 2016, 04:08:29 PM

Thanks Paul!

Title: Re: making a continous line of objects based on one object
Post by: mitviz on April 23, 2016, 01:10:17 AM

how do i change the rotation of onjects along the path, i tried alot of things and i cant seem to get them the way i way to line up

Title: Re: making a continous line of objects based on one object
Post by: mitviz on April 23, 2016, 01:12:46 AM

no worries someone just told me, the transform menu