instancing script

[arian.mares]

Hi!
After i saw how laborious the process of instancing is i can make a suggestion... can you perhaps write a script (like an additional function) that generates randomly spread out (onto a plane) objects such as stones and plants. I think once you managed to write scripts for generators such as marble and turbulence, this should be a piece of cake for you.
I believe this idea would be a huge step regarding the instancing procedures (that are painfully repetitive therefore pain in the ass for creativity).

Cheers!

[vanhage]

If you are a rhino user, I can share a grasshopper file which does a proximity based, random scatter on a mesh surface which I use to generate the text file for the scatter node.
I'm sure the issue has been addressed on a platform by platform basis within the community, it may help to specify what software you are generating your scenes in.

[arian.mares]

Thank you but the idea was to keep the geometry as simple as possible since the video memory is pretty much more limited in size comparing to the RAM. Btw... i am still studying rhino. I'll get to grasshopper as well one day as it is pretty interesting
Thanks again!

[face_off]

After i saw how laborious the process of instancing is i can make a suggestion... can you perhaps write a script (like an additional function) that generates randomly spread out (onto a plane) objects such as stones and plants. I think once you managed to write scripts for generators such as marble and turbulence, this should be a piece of cake for you.
I believe this idea would be a huge step regarding the instancing procedures (that are painfully repetitive therefore pain in the ass for creativity).

The OctaneRender for Poser plugin does exactly this.

Paul

[arian.mares]

Thank you!