Forum: Bryce


Subject: Randomize Question

Josh101 opened this issue on Apr 10, 2004 ยท 6 posts


Josh101 posted Sat, 10 April 2004 at 1:05 PM

Hi everyone. Can anyone tell me how to get Bryce5's randomize feature to work? I follow what the manual says, but it doesn't seem to do what it should. I can choose which randomize type I want, but when I click and drag on the amount button it just moves the object around and resizes it. How do I get it to actually let me set the amount and then create those objects? Thanks for any help you can give me. Josh


drawbridgep posted Sat, 10 April 2004 at 1:22 PM

It works with multiple objects best. So either select a load of objects. Or what I do is mutlireplicate a number of times and then try it.

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Josh101 posted Sat, 10 April 2004 at 2:31 PM

Thanks drawbridgep. I think I was misunderstanding what the randomize feature did. From using other programs I assumed that it would create x number of duplicates of an object scattered randomly. This would be great for scattering trees or other foliage across a landscape. Is there a feature like this in Bryce, where you can select a single object and create a number of duplicates scattered randomly? I know the multireplicate can do something similar to this, but it isn't really a random scattering. Or maybe there is a way to make multireplicate act in a more random way? Any help would be appreciated. Josh


drawbridgep posted Sat, 10 April 2004 at 2:38 PM

Pretty sure it's the only way. Make a tree, multireplicate it a lot of times. Select them all and then randmoize 2d disperse and that will move them around in 2d plane. But obviously each tree will be a clone. There may be a way to randomize it a bit better. But not that I know of.

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Aldaron posted Sat, 10 April 2004 at 4:05 PM

Short of creating each tree individually using one of the .bto files (or making a tree and saving it as a .bto) then selecting them all and using 2d disperse, what drawbridgep described is the only other way.


Josh101 posted Mon, 12 April 2004 at 10:08 AM

Thanks for the help. I think I can get the results I want if I combine multireplicate with randomize. Thanks again. Josh