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miauu's Scatter Tool

By miauu · 2012-01-03

Version
1.0
Version requirement
3ds max 9 and up
Date updated
2012-01-03
Votes
6
Description

This script was requested in this thread by @obaida.
What script do: Get selected object and scatter created clones with random scale but without collision. The created clones can be attached to the source object - miauuscattertool_v11.ms.

Installation: Drag and drop in 3ds max. Go to Customize-Customize User Interface- "miauu" category and find "miauu's Scatter Tool".

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Tags: scatter, clone, instance, object, Reference, distribution, collision, overlap, intersects

Comments (11)

kimarotta · 2012-08-01

good script, but could try to implement collision and spinner to scale

miauu · 2012-08-01

This is already done, but in In-volume scatter tool.

Video01  Video02

3dsmax collusion in scattering

ratatouille · 2015-09-29

Hi,
thanks for your great script. but still 3dsmax need some good scattering tool with collusion. forest pack done well but with bugs in scattering, or you can say collusion not working properly.
So, you can add collusion option in your script to make it more valuable or needy script.

sorry for bad english.

Attach Option

rs3d · 2012-08-01

Would be great to have an option to attach the scattered
to the source, so the source mesh could be animated.

Nice work so far!

miauu · 2012-08-01

Done.
:)

miauu · 2012-01-29

Hi!
The script is ready, but I will release it as a part of my script pack, which will not be free. The release date is .... next week. :)

Waiting ......

obaida · 2012-01-28

Hellow .
I'm still waiting ..
thanks .

obaida · 2012-01-09

yes inside the sphere or free shape .
like (gridScatter) by (Andrei Kletskov) .

miauu · 2012-01-09

Inside Shpere is almost done. Inside shape(with custom form) and no shape collision is in the list, but this will be a completely different script.

Test

obaida · 2012-01-08

Hi Miauu .
I test your script its working good for geometry but I notased this :
1- there is intersection when scattering shapes .
2- it's based on the bounding box of target object so its only work for box and rectangle .

miauu · 2012-01-08

1 - I will fix this.
2 - do you mean that you want to use sphere and you want to put all clones inside this sphere and not inside the bbox of the sphere?