Hi,
Is it possible using Corona scatter to have wooden siding at different width’s boards at a certain stepping but with a fixed seam width. Like every boards is at least 7 mm apart. I tried with avoid collisions, that worked but the seams are too random still.
I am also wondering if its possible to have the pine material cubic projection random set for each board to avoid knots and grain unrealistically matching for each next board.
I tried the UV randomiser but did not get a proper result. Most likely cubic does not work here or I just don’t understand the UV randomiser very well.
Attachment is a quick render with Corona scatter and the pine semigloss material from the material library.
I like the random width and thickness of the boards but the seams are random too which is what I am trying to avoid. The material itself looks excellent but the cubic projection would be better if for each board at a different unique location.
Any help appreciated. As an architect I work a lot with wooden siding. Not always I like to work with displacement materials. Its often more reailstic to have actual geometry.
Not as far as I know, as this would require Scatter to be aware of the size of the geometry before scattering and mathematically go “Ok so the next scatter should be 6 inches from the first, but this one is an 8 inch board now, so the next scatter should be 8 inches away”. Instead it scatters by fixed pattern or randomly (and then avoid collisions simply removes anything that happens to overlap after the fact).
Closest suggestion I can think of is to build a set of three or four “groups” of the boards where the boards in that group add up to being exactly the same width as every other group, then scatter them at fixed distances.
Late to the party, but I found a script written by Peter Notz from 2012 on my HDD that might come in handy. He posted it on a forum back in the days and magically it still works!
Put a group of objects under the parent, select a gap width and Bob’s you uncle.
He tx Cinemike
just tried it and indeed works very well. Even with a Boole.
I am just wondering if Corona scatter could come up with something simular. Setting gab width is common in my line off work. I would be fantastatic if scatter would be able to vary board width with a constant gab width for a given total length of scattered objects. Maybe a grasshopper project…
