Scatter places the scattered objects on the terrain floor. Is it possible to turn this off? I would like to scatter objects in a volume while still using Scatter as an easy interface for the particle systems.
I just want to distribute tons of simple objects in a 3D area. Something like randomizing locations might even do the trick, but it would be nice to still have the option of tweaking the number and frequency per object. So then particle systems come to mind, and since I have Scatter lying around…
but a normal particle system works also! find some problems when using scatter,
e.g. randomize rotation didnt work!/maybe local z-rotation will work!)the source emitted object unable to unhide …
Ok, I was having problems with the location and rotation when checking “whole collection”. Figured out that I have to position the collection in the world origin and rotate it 90 degrees in Y axis…
Yes indeed, blender is a bit awkward with this 90degree rotation system. this will soon be over with the new geonode scattering workflow. note that there’s a way to change that in object>relation
The baker is now x10 faster, 45sec for baking a 8k png with a 1mil vert terrain. this is quite a huge improvement compared to the old method (8min) and I believe it’s also faster than baking vertex colors from cycles?
here’s some example on a generated watershed/slope mask, terrain is 1mil vert (2mil tri) baked trichannel baking on 8192x8192 was 48sec
Here’s some (complex?) mo-graph example-workflow below, I didn’t implement mask influence on particle distribution yet. I’ll show examples on how useful mask animation and baking can be for scattering later
This is a newly implemented “position” mask that will map vertices depending on their location from the chosen origin (x/y/z/xy/xyz origins) on the chosen space (set on this moving empty). I enabled the option so the chosen masks will recalculate themselves on frame change. the values are also remapped with this pyramidal animated graph moving along the abscissa (it’s a vg edit modifier). The vertex group generated by this position mask is driving a displace modifier
then from that displaced geometry the normal and aspect masks will also recalculate their values per frames.
Hi. I am new using Scatter. I am loving it, still to many things to understand. There is one main thing that I really need to solver kind of fast. I am painting where to place the particles. The render and the viewport give me a different outcome in terms of distribution and scale.
I’ve already seen you replied to other people who have experienced the same issue I’ve encountered. I am new to Blender and I don’t understand the fix that solved their issue.
When I create LOD’s of an object and then switch the viewport to display only the proxy, it flips them model 90° forward and ends up laying flat on the Y. If i rotate the proxy back by 90° manually, the other LOD’s will also rotate back by 90°.
I’m a complete newbie to both Blender and Scatter, could you please provide a detailed step-by-step explaination for how I can fix this?
In the native blender particle system (what is used in scatter) by default the instances need to be rotated 90degree on the X axis in order to stay up. For the longest time, most tutorials online told users to rotate the instances mesh, but actually there’s a (hidden) option in properties>object>relation>tracking axis to change to resolve this problem, set this property to +Z and everything should be OK, you just need to make sure that your mesh and their LOD are all in the same rotation space of course
Hi! Is there an option to use collection as scatter instancer. This feature could be useful for scattering trees when trees leaves are created with linked mesh data which means that model contains more than one mesh.
Hi, I’m back. I think I’m almost done. I have added LOD’s to all the plants, all of which are facing upwards (properties>object>relation>Z+).
How do I prevent Scatter from rotating the assets when I press Scatter though? I saw this guy do it in this video https://youtu.be/VgWaOcUO7Qc?t=2945 at 49:05. But I dont see this option in the Scatter menu I’m using.
