Drop Ruby

Rudbeckia

I need to drop a bunch of plants onto a contour map

i downloaded the ruby "drop", is this the right ruby?

and what tool bar does it show up in, i cant find it anywhere, thanks!

Chris Fullmer

Yup, its correct. It shows up in the right click menu. So place all your plants up in the air above your terrain, select them all (or do it in chunks is some times safer) and then right click on one and choose drop at intersection. Good luck,

Chris

Rudbeckia

@chris fullmer said:

Yup, its correct. It shows up in the right click menu. So place all your plants up in the air above your terrain, select them all (or do it in chunks is some times safer) and then right click on one and choose drop at intersection. Good luck,

Chris

thanks, i tried it and only about 1/2 dropped, the 1/2 that did not are all the same component plant, any ideas on what the problem might be?

Chris Fullmer

Here's a few suggestions:

Make sure they are all actually over the top of the terrain.
They will get stopped by hidden geometry and I think even layers that are turned off.
Try selecting those that did not drop and keep running the script on them. There is a good chance that many of them will drop the 2nd or 3rd time.

Maybe something there will help?

Chris

Rudbeckia

@chris fullmer said:

Here's a few suggestions:

Make sure they are all actually over the top of the terrain.

They will get stopped by hidden geometry and I think even layers that are turned off.

Try selecting those that did not drop and keep running the script on them. There is a good chance that many of them will drop the 2nd or 3rd time.

Maybe something there will help?

Chris

thanks for the help! i got most to drop guess i will just do the rest by hand

it wont drop the Land FX trees, it makes them go up and down and everywhere in bt, weird, maybe the ruby was not designed to work with land fx