I'm liking these 'random' scripts you cook up Michael, thanks! now just to manage them all with that script manager/popup thingy that we're all waiting for ;)

They've already cloned a sheep, so all we need to do is get you over to the cloning clinc and get you cloned, how many of you would you need to help out with all the requests?

Or will Mrs G stop us, being married myself my wife would say, One Danny is enough! ;)

Cheers

Shapenoid

<< I post my problem and Michael make a script for when I wake up... Amazing>>

...i hope you'll send a bottle to Michael for Christmas...

great work !

M

Here is a Top View of an array of flat "diamonds," on which Michaels new script Randomize has been applied,
with a maximum angle of 55 degrees. This way edge on views are avoided.

I was going to claim that z axis rotations up to 180 be allowed, with y and x about 55 degrees, but upon reconsideration, am probably mistaken.
One think about randomized, is that the results are non-reproducible.

Very funny!
Will work fine also with Scale Array ;)

Hi DesuDeus, you're welcome and I'm glad that will be useful for you!

And congrats on the job with Moët & Chandon too, that sounds like some pretty cool work you've got lined up!

- Michael

Hi Danny,

> how many of you would you need to help out with all the requests?

I've got enough stuff lined up that I'm pretty sure I could keep at least 10 busy! :)

- Michael

This really made my day, I was searching for a quick way to make an abstract floor pattern...

Some small details:

Quick switch to enable/disable rotate, scale or move without clearing all fields

Undo doesn't work, a preview button maybe?

It could be nice to have xyz constraints on the scale factor like rotate and move, say you want to generate a landscape of buildings and have different heights.


Marc

""""""I've got enough stuff lined up that I'm pretty sure I could keep at least 10 busy! """"""""""

Send 1 on permanent vacation. Give 8 to JG. And leave 1 working here with us!

< Undo doesn't work, a preview button maybe?

Works for me ;)

Hi Marc, yup I thought about having a checkbox for a quick enable/disable of each section, and an "Update" button as well but I didn't think I would have enough time to finish those last night so they didn't make the initial cut.

I may be able to do some more work on it tonight to make some more refinements like that.

An x,y,z control for scaling should be feasible too, all good ideas!

- Michael

I've updated the Randomize.zip attachment on the previous message with a new version of Randomize:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=5416.5

New functions are a checkbox for each section so that you can disable a section by unchecking it without needing to reset all the values to null operations if you've already previously used Randomize in the same modeling session, and also x y z controls on the scaling to allow for either a uniform 3D scale, a 2D scale or a 1D scale only.

Also since there is non-uniform scaling now allowed I've changed the order to be Move, Scale, and then Rotate since doing a non-uniform scale will produce different results if you do it before the rotation as compared to after it:



Here's an example with only z scaling enabled:



- Michael

On the left, Randomize has been run twice, first with z rotation of max 180 degrees, second with x and y rotations of max 55 degrees.
On the right, Randomize has been run once, with x, y, and z rotations of max 55 degrees.
Which side is better?

Now for the Move we have that (said 5 was enter)
-5 to 5 possible

Does it possible to have something for the Move like this
0 to 10 so a "direction" of the Move :)

Of course I can "move" the first result but ...

For me, the one on the right is better, but this is limited to the top view we see. Maybe a perspective would change that perception.

This so rad ! Thanks for the work Michael !

It's expanding MoI features a lot :)

<< Which side is better?

A real random gives some groups! ;)

And not the right one image! ;)

Had to do a quick one using the Randomize script.

The year is 2035 and the world is over populated.............this is Sky City 001.

-

Hi Pilou,

> Does it possible to have something for the Move like this
> 0 to 10 so a "direction" of the Move :)

You could get this by editing the Randomize.js script - find the spot with:

function MoveObject( obj, move_dist, move_x, move_y, move_z )
{
	var dx = !move_x ? 0.0 : RandLerp( -move_dist, move_dist );
	var dy = !move_y ? 0.0 : RandLerp( -move_dist, move_dist );
	var dz = !move_z ? 0.0 : RandLerp( -move_dist, move_dist );

And then replace the -move_dist values with 0, like this:

function MoveObject( obj, move_dist, move_x, move_y, move_z )
{
	var dx = !move_x ? 0.0 : RandLerp( 0, move_dist );
	var dy = !move_y ? 0.0 : RandLerp( 0, move_dist );
	var dz = !move_z ? 0.0 : RandLerp( 0, move_dist );

Then I think it will have the directional behavior that you're asking about.

- Michael

Cool, that works like a charm!

Just what is the syntaxe for put
the ancient code as "quote" for remember the next time is i want to change it ?

Unlucky there is not notation in this one file but seeing in other JS I Suppose that is "//" ? ;)

For anyone doing these kinds of random, but structured "particles" on a regular basis, take a look at Element 3D.

Element 3D is a plug-in for Adobe After Effects. It's a particle array system using 3D objects.

I've been using it with my MoI models exported as OBJ.

Although it handles arrays, it is used a lot for animating just a single 3D model in a faster, simpler way than using a full blown 3D system like Cinema 4D.

After Effects is of course primarily for motion graphics, but because it has so much overlap with Photoshop it gets used for still images as well.

Ed


http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/3d_replicator/sd/

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/screen_animations/

http://www.videocopilot.net/help/element/tutorial/basic/animation_engine/