The previous Blender study with two office towers I had previously shown was in fact primarily intended as a “base model” so I could test using modifiers on “building size” groups, one of the many incredible capabilities available with Blender. As previously noted the exterior skin of both towers is 98% tessellated, with only seven different tissue panel types, most 5 feet wide by one story high, using the older version of Tissue (version 0-3-44) which allows for multi component tessellations. The wavy portions of the skin had been created with a non-destructible “Curve Modifier”. I left the mirrored second tower on the right “as is” to clearly show “before and after”.
In this study I looked at how I can subsequently modify one of the towers with a “Lattice Modifier” twisting the whole tower as shown. Since my original intent was always to later modify only one of the towers the mirrored right tower was Alt-copied as a group and then mirrored by scaling to -1. It took me a couple hours to apply the Lattice Modifier to all the elements of the left tower model (not including the elevator core of course) but once done later adjustments were relatively easy. However please note that once I had applied the lattice to the twisted tower; when I later decided to update some of the tissue elements their mirrored Alt-copies would disappear. I would then have to copy and mirror scale the updated tesselation, moving it to the mirrored location by hand. Hardly a deal breaker.
P.S.- My first lattice test was actually done on my earlier residential tower model, a simple bend that worked easily enough but was both somewhat disappointing and obviously deformed not-to-scale at the same time. I figured an office building would be a more likely test subject. However this time when I applied the simple curve lattice to the individual tessellations they would “fly off” seriously distorted. Finally I tried using the “HardOps” lattice and it worked(!) though I am not sure just why. I have tried Boxcutter as well but decided it does not fit into my work process. On the other hand I use the HardOps “Dice” feature quite often and is IMHO worth the price of admission all by itself.
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