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Forest Pro (*) / Suggestion for the Future To Keep Up With Other Scatter Tools

« Last post by Dustin on Today at 05:28:38 am »

If there's already a custom script for this, please let me know. Im curious why LOD's havent been more easily implemented. I was reviewing the process that was needed to setup LOD's and realized the extra steps needed for it. Im surprised that some sort of "Auto-LOD" system isnt already available (with the included libraries) since this would be a great selling point, one, and two its needed mostly all of the time. It would greatly reduce problems and tech requests due to artists (new at least) running out of VRAM and not understanding the different controls to display x number of instances and displaying x number of instances in renders. Distance from camera = progressive lower quality in instances? This should be a no brainer option automatically.

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RailClone Pro (*) / Re: Seat Color Gradient by Height

« Last post by VelvetElvis on July 17, 2025, 04:17:50 pm »

Once again, thank you so much for your help. Every time you solve something, it ends up be a super simple solution.

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RailClone Pro (*) / Re: Surface Array problematic Edges

« Last post by Szary on July 17, 2025, 09:51:48 am »

OK, thanks. I'll just add that the problem occurs mainly on sloped surfaces.

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RailClone Pro (*) / Re: Surface Array problematic Edges

« Last post by iToo on July 17, 2025, 09:40:02 am »

Are you still looking for a solution or have you already given up? I think this is a pretty important issue in the RailClone functionality,

Sincerely, we have not revisited this issue in quite some time. Last time we tried different methods without success.
No promises, but i will take a look to it again.

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RailClone Pro (*) / Re: Classical Facade with Railclone

« Last post by Michal Karmazín on July 17, 2025, 09:35:51 am »

Hi Anthony,

I would suggest checking out the ‘Randomising Shop Fronts and Facades’ tutorial, together with the ‘Create a Building Generator and Master the A2S Generator’ tutorial. These should help you build your own facade style using Sequence Operators. I hope this helps.

Best regards,

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RailClone Pro (*) / Re: Surface Array problematic Edges

« Last post by Szary on July 17, 2025, 09:20:40 am »

Too bad :-( thanks for the information.
Are you still looking for a solution or have you already given up? I think this is a pretty important issue in the RailClone functionality,

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RailClone Pro (*) / Re: Seat Color Gradient by Height

« Last post by Michal Karmazín on July 17, 2025, 08:38:43 am »

Hi,

Please find attached a revised version of your scene, edited by my colleague Paul. It features a modified version of the Gradient Probability macro that uses the Z position (XSplineCoords.z) instead of the spline position. I hope this helps.

Best regards,

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RailClone Pro (*) / Classical Facade with Railclone

« Last post by Anthony Lester on July 16, 2025, 07:58:00 pm »

Hi, this is going back a bit but I wonder if there is a more detailed tutorial that goes into the set-up of the scene used in https://www.itoosoft.com/tutorials/creating-patterns

I am just about to start modelling Regent street in central London which has similar classical facades and remembered this 10 second tip.

fingers crossed
Anthony

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RailClone Pro (*) / Seat Color Gradient by Height

« Last post by VelvetElvis on July 16, 2025, 03:07:14 pm »

I'm struggling with getting the LED lights on the front of the seats to gradient from the lower seats to the upper seats. The gradient probability macro works as the seats go down the rows, but I'm looking to do this from top to bottom. Is it also possible to do this with 3 colors?

Attached is the file to test with. Max 2024, Vray7, RC 6.4.1

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Forest Pro (*) / Re: Errant Patches of Large Grass

« Last post by iToo on July 16, 2025, 12:45:41 pm »

Thanks for your suggestion. For next updates we'll include a limit to the scaling.