Old Newbie... Landscape made of cds

leminilab

Hi all...

I guess my brain has decided to take a day off today (once more )...

I can't find a way to re-create a landscape with instanced components of a CD following a terrain...

Like in the example below:

I thought the fur plug-in would do but it doesn't seem to have a fixed spacing parameter...
I thought about texturing the terrain but the rendered result doesn't quite works...

Thanks a lot for your time!

P.S. : Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! It's driving me nuts!

massimo

This one maybe? Never tried it though.
Funny CD's composition btw.

leminilab

Hi Massimo!

Thanks for trying to take me out of this hole I just dug...

I wonder if maybe I have a better option instancing in Thea...

massimo

Hi Nicolas, I don't think you can obtain such "regularity" using istancing in Thea.

leminilab

Well I thought the grid would do but it's not what I hoped...

leminilab

I think I'll end up texturing the shape... Not too great...

3dita

@leminilab said:

I think I'll end up texturing the shape... Not too great...

I would go like this:

Model the terrain with sand box

Model a cd, make it a component, or proxy it (I use vray)

Use Chris Fulmer's awesome: Place Component on Faces Plugin.

Set up material

Profit

leminilab

@3dita said:

@leminilab said:

I think I'll end up texturing the shape... Not too great...

I would go like this:

Model the terrain with sand box

Model a cd, make it a component, or proxy it (I use vray)

Use Chris Fulmer's awesome: Place Component on Faces Plugin.

Set up material

Profit

3dita, I thank you, it works perfectly!
I just need to find the best spacing in the sandbox to make sure my computer doesn't die rendering this but it is what I needed!

Thanks a bunch!

3dita

@leminilab said:

3dita, I thank you, it works perfectly!
I just need to find the best spacing in the sandbox to make sure my computer doesn't die rendering this but it is what I needed!

Thanks a bunch!

Glad I could be of help! Again, make sure the CDs are Proxies, otherwise I think it's gonna be hard to handle that scene..

Looking forward to see how it turned out, ok?

Cheers