Creating Cityscapes with RailClone

[Rokas]

Thanks for file. I can repeat what Dragan Suggested: Please rotate Your buildings Pivot:



Hope this helps.

[Totek]

Ok i feel dumb now i didn't try to rotate the pivot, thank you very much for your answers.
I'm going to explore railclone further and might come back with another stupid questions 

[Terri Brown]

Hi! Please post the tutorial for max 2014...thanks a mil xxx

[Paul Roberts]

Hi Terri,

Please find attached the scene files saved back to Max 2013. The scene really only contains the city grid because the buildings shown in the tutorial cannot be redistributed. But you should be able to source buildings from anywhere and follow along.

I hope that helps,

Paul

[Draganilic]

Post your questions and comments about the Creating Cityscapes with RailClone tutorial here.

I liked the tutorial a lot, can you make also an tutorial with procedural facades like this one?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS-PLQ3tfzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlR2geuzPXI&feature=youtu.be

Thx

[Michael]

Hello! I also have a problem but i think it regards the splines!

On some of the splines the objects appear correctly "inside" the spline (after following the align to bottom as described in the video)  but on some of the splines the buildings are outside the spline or scarce. Please see attached screenshot!

Edit: all splines were created in 3ds max with line and are set to corner. i created them with free hand over a city image

[Rokas]

It is important if You have created splines in clockwise or anticlockwise direction. Anyway You can always edit spline and reverse it.

[Michael]

Thanks Rokas that was the problem!

If i can ask another question.. If i use a spline that is not flat no Z, but rather has a more topographic reality where its not flat but has up and downs, how can i make my buildings vertical and not to shift their z axis alignment to follow the normals of the curve. The same thing you can do in Forest pack for the trees with a slider so they can follow the surfaces normals or keep to vertical.

[Rokas]

Sure.
You have two options- add level surface or set building to deform "vertical":

[Michael]

Wow, thanks that was very helpful! 

[Michael]

Hey again! I am not sure if I should be addressing this question here. In this tutorial it is mentioned near the end that same splines are used to make various stuff
among which was "pedestrian crossings". Now I haven't been able to find a tutorial on how to make a pedestrian crossing using railcone, I'm pretty sure its not that complicated, but I don't know how to do it. If anyone can provide the help i would be most grateful.

[mfountouklis]

Hello again guys! Im having trouble with this technique again, i would love if someone could help me.

Im recreating the editor nodes step by step but i cant seem to get the buildings to show correctly.
I am getting these big gabs at my city blocks, any idea why?

[VW5520]

any chance to get the railclone setup for this tutrial? I would like to see how the road, kerps and trees have been created

[Paul Roberts]

Hi,

I'm afraid we couldn't share the complete scene files for this one due to copyrighted assets, but the Trees and pavements were basically done by distributing geometry using the same grid. Just setting the Y Alignment of a pavement section so that the geometry is outside the grid should do it. Tree can be sound with Forest Pack using path mode and Y offset to move them into position.

I hope that helps,

Paul

[RichardBlank]

Hi, Im trying to follow along the tutorial but I can't get the corner to work correctly. I recreated it both with house models and just with simple boxes. But there's still overlapping in the corners. I must be doing something wrong or maybe it's another workflow in RailClone 6?

Best,
Richard