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Brick colour Gradient
« on: July 22, 2016, 12:40:22 PM »
Hi all,

Quite a complicated thing I want here and I'm struggling.....I'll try to explain it in as simple way as possible.

I have a brick floor made of three different sized bricks. 120x60mm, 160x126mm and 160x240mm. I have railcloned them using a clipping spline so they are in a random layout. Maxfile Attached.

I have been given three brick colours and a plan that the bricks gradient in colour from one side of the floor to the other. See attached capture image. I also need some varient among each of the 3 colours too.

Is this even possible in Railclone. I have a feeling it will be, I can't find a way using the railclone parameters which is what i think it needs, rather than tying to do it through a material which is what i am trying to do.

I've modeled the parking lines separately so just need to figure out the gradient.

Any help or suggestion appreciated!

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Andy
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Paul Roberts

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Re: Brick colour Gradient
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2016, 02:36:10 PM »
Hi,

Please see the attached file which has two sets of controls for transition position and a gradient range to give results similar to this:



It uses an adaptation of  the techniques shown in this post: http://forum.itoosoft.com/index.php?topic=3487.msg13603#msg13603

Because it's using a selector operator you can still create variety by randomising the material Ids within each section.

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

Many Thanks,

Paul
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Re: Brick colour Gradient
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2016, 03:39:58 PM »
Hi Paul,


Thank you very much for this. It's amazing. I've taken a look but have found a problem. Because I have 3 different sized bricks, the current setup in the file is done with s puts one size at the bottom, one in the middle and one at the top. I need the sizes to be random throughout with just the colour changing. I see your picture has some varience id width but is this random, or with 3 set sizes?

I'll try and fix this myself, I think I need to copy the three brick sizes three times, plug each set of three in to a randomize, then go in to the selector...........I'm sure you know how to do it, but I'd rather figure it out. I'll get back to you if I can't do it.

thanks for the great start though, always appreciated.
« Last Edit: July 22, 2016, 03:47:30 PM by iToo_Butler »
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Re: Brick colour Gradient
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2016, 03:53:41 PM »
Hi!

Yes those sizes were just achieved by randomising the scale. You should be able to do this using the technique you describe though, just duplicate your 3 bricks and wire them to the Selector inputs via Randomise operators.

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Re: Brick colour Gradient
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2016, 04:10:44 PM »
Indeed it did!

Now I just need to randomize the materials a little bit and I'm done. I'll post the final flow on here in case anyone wants it.

Some colour patterns/gradients might make a good library!

Thanks again for the amazing support.
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