What goes up, must come down?!

benils

Hi there,
since I keep running into some difficulties, when it comes to multiple bend surfaces, I shortly wanted to make sure if I'm missing anything or if it's even possible right now.

I'm aware that i could set a custom axis to the whole thing, which works perfectly fine for "conventional" facade-greenery, but since we have movement on every axis here, that's not an option without looking strange.
I could split that whole subD into separate parts and assing a separate ecosystem-duplicate to each one to achive my goal, but that kills my workflow. I am still doing configurations on that whole draft, so I'd love to keep it slick and adjustable.

Do we have any options for using just face-normals as a guide? Maybe through grasshopper? So those self-overlapping domains can be kept from excluding themselves. This also happens when stacking surfaces (just as balconies) upon each other and trying to fill those with assets. In such a case just the surface on top ist filled, while excluding every single one beneath.

I'd love to use RhinoNature for a little more than "just" parks and landscaping and feel like it's able to deliver what I'm asking for with ease - maybe I'm just not getting this right. None the less: dope plugin! Loving it!

Please be aware, that I can't send over any further data, since this all is part of an ongoing competition.
Thanks!

D-W

benils Try using Sampled distribution and if it's necessary use Collisions to prevent overlapping as Sampled isn't distance based - with collision you may be interested in setting Local Size param per Entity as well as global Size in Collisions rollout.

benils So those self-overlapping domains can be kept from excluding themselves. This also happens when stacking surfaces (just as balconies) upon each other and trying to fill those with assets. In such a case just the surface on top ist filled, while excluding every single one beneath.

For stacked floors, you could use Sampled also.

The sampled option is easy to use but may be hard to steer very precisely, so I would suggest then using UV mode where you can still work with the distance param. Certainly, this is a more complex topic overall as with UVs you can go really deep even for placing furniture based on Entity Color ID with Clustering turned on.

benils

Well, let's face it - the jokes on me. I just didn't get it right. Thanks a lot, this works beyond perfect!

D-W

benils Glad to hear you work it out! I will add here an example with stacked floors and complex shapes, tomorrow hopefully.

D-W

benils Sorry for having to wait one more day but I had to enable *.3dm files upload on the forum. Anyway here you have a very simple example of how to proceed in such scenarios:

complex-stacked.3dm

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