Array help?

Support Modeling
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Alright heres the situation:

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o251/maul2/bridgesectionhelp.jpg
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I have this section of a “raised highway”, all the lamp posts and the highway are seperate objects. I want to add an array modifier to all of them to make the highway longer (It doesn’t have to curve at all so no worries there). But I need the lampposts to stay in the same place on each section. Is there a way to do this with out having to manually place each lamp post on each section?

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apply 2 array one for the road and one for a group a group of lamp fixtures
(so you have to group together all the lamp Ctrl-J)
and then you can apply the array modif to this new object by specifying an offset

Salutations

3

maul2,

2 things come to mind:

  1. join the lamps to the bridge section
  2. use a combination of empties parenting and array modifier

I used option 2 on this file. Open it, and slide the selected empty along the x axis. See if that meets your needs.

Best of Luck!

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Yah! Thanks OBI_Ron, that #2 works perfectly. Thanks.