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see here:

http://www.jumpgates.com/matthias/MEL/G ... ier_V2.mel
folder: http://www.jumpgates.com/matthias/MEL/

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it's easy to use and described in the script also.

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enjoy !

example ...

Very cool, thanks a lot Matthias

Any chance of zipping it up, when I click on the link I just get a whole pile of jumbled up text..

Thanks..

i thought that would happen... i'll zip it...

there You go...

http://www.jumpgates.com/matthias/MEL/G ... ier_V2.zip
http://www.jumpgates.com/matthias/MEL/

i hope it works...

(else, the whole code is displayed in one line... )

wow that was quick, thanks a lot, I'm going to have a play

You are welome ... !

You helped me in the past ...

Thanks alot, It worls great. Really usefull. And not only for grass. Great for placing out any objects. Thanks alot.

One question: Why does it only work with a Nurbs-ground? I would really like it to work on polys... I always model with polys...

thanks guys ! thanks guys !

reasons... why not (yet) with polys

1) i'd like to make it also work with polys, but i have not found yet the MEL command that gives out a randomized vector (position) from points all over the poly-surfaces, and not only the cv. in nurbs, i can randomize a UV value and output the world coordinates of this point, based on the selected nurbs surface.

2) nurbs are also cool to generate shaped topography

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i'll have an other look in the MEL reference... k?

SunlightRocker wrote:And not only for grass

NO. NO. it REALLY should work only with grass.... !

don't rape it !

Hehe. Okey, Only grass it is then.

any wishes so far ? what could be changed or added ?

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of course it would be great to write it in C++ for the API, which would greatly speed it up, but i'm not familiar with C++

can someone help ?

maybe Dr. Merman is just doing this at the moment ... ?

I have some wishes.

1. Add the generated meshes into a new group...

2. Add more parameters:
rotate x
rotate y
rotate z

3. And when they are created, they must be moved to the right position. Why is that?

to wish 1) i tried that but failed at the first attempt. i'll try again

to wish 2) okay, i can do this.

to question 3) i don't quite understand what You mean...

the object is selected, duplicated and then, this new selection is moved to a place on the nurbs surface. this just randomizes objects to different places... this is the idea behind the script... well, i don't get it...

Hehe. Ok, Ill try to explain nr 3: When my meshes have been created, they all end up at the wrong position. So I have to create a group, and move them to fit the ground mesh... Like your screenshot..