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Drops scattered across the tin surface using the Maxwell Scatter feature
The Maxwell Scatter extension allows you to distribute instances of an object across the surface of another object randomly, while providing control over the random distribution. The object may even be an MXS Reference.
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The parameters are similar to the ones found in the Grass extension.
The MaxwellScatter parameters panel (left). The vectors in the viewport (right) display the distribution, scale and orientation of the instances. Click the image for the full size version.
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This option automatically removes the overlapped instances to ensure a distribution without collisions or overlaps.
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Enabling the Remove Overlaps option (left) ensures none of the instances are overlapping in the final distribution (right) |
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- Perpendicular to the surface when set to 0%
- World-Y axis (up) when set to 100%
Level of Detail parameters
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The maximum number of instances to display in the viewport.
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A note on memory consumption It is important to be aware of the RAM consumption when generating replicas of objects automatically, otherwise it is easy to produce much more objects than your computer can handle - for instance, if you have an object (i.e. a tree) composed of 8000 objects and use MaxwellScatter to distribute 27000 replicas of the tree object across a landscape, internally the system must generate more than 216 million objects, which can hang your computer if you don't have enough RAM . If instead the tree object is merged and left as just 25 objects, the system can handle the scene without problems and the result will be the same. |
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