Radial Scatter

Short Description

Scatters objects in a radial pattern around a center.

Description

The Radial Scatter tool scatters objects in a radial pattern around a center point. It provides various customizable properties to control the placement, attributes, and behavior of the scattered objects, including count, radius, and orientation.

Properties

Base Properties

• Scatter: Objects to instance on the grid

• Count: Number of instances along the ring

• Radius: Controls the radius of the scatter

• Start Angle: Start angle of the ring

• End Angle: End angle of the ring

• Keep Count: Keep the initial count after slicing the radius

• Offset All: Rotate all rings

• Height: Applies height accumulatively on every point within a ring.

• Height every Nth: Applies height every Nth object instead of every other

Concentric

• Concentric Rings: Number of concentric rings

• Concentric Distance Min: Minimum distance between 2 concentric rings

• Concentric Distance Max: Maximum distance between 2 concentric rings

• Ring Offset: Rotates rings

• Offset every Nth: Rotates every Nth ring instead of all.

• Accumulative Offset: Accumulatively offsets instead of uniformly.

• Wrap Around: If wrap around is set, ring offset won't confine objects within the Start and End angle

• Adaptive Count: Set the number of objects in a ring such that spacing between objects is uniform in all rings.

• Count Increase: Increase count every subsequent ring

• Count Every Nth: Applies count increase every Nth ring

• Ring Height: Applies a height accumulatively on every subsequent ring

• Ring Height every Nth: Applies the Ring Height every Nth ring instead of every other

Position

• Origin Meshes: Origin to scatter objects around

• Orient To Origin: If object is rotated, rotate also the scatter

• Equidistant: Objects are placed in equal distances in a radius, otherwise randomly

• Randomize Position: Randomizes position towards the center, giving it a bit of a variation.

• Sink: Pushes your instanced objects downwards

• Randomize Sink: Sink value will be randomized per object in the range of (0, Sink), instead of uniformly setting in the same for all.

• Seed: Used for modifying randomization of Positional values

Shaping

• X: Extends along X axis

• Y: Extends along Y axis

• Carve Start: Carves out in a circular pattern, percentage wise

• Carve End: Carves out in a circular pattern, percentage wise

Scaling

• Scale Mode: Scale Mode

• Min Scale: Minimum scale of the instances

• Max Scale: Maximum scale of the instances

• Noise Scale: Controls the scale of the noise

• Scale Jitter: Adds random scale value to existing scale.

Rotation

• Twist Direction: Twists around this axis

• Twist Rotation: Twists the scattered objects' rotations along the curve

• Random Spin: Rotates individual instances randomly around their axis

• Rotation Space: Rotate objects in world or object space

• X Rotation: Rotates the scattered objects along the X axis in the given space

• Y Rotation: Rotates the scattered objects along the Y axis in the given space

• Z Rotation: Rotates the scattered objects along the Z axis in the given space

Projection

• Projection Meshes: Meshes to projects the objects onto

• Align to Projection: If set, reorients objects to the surface normals

• Remove Non Projected: Anything that wasn't projected will be removed

Proximity Mask

• Objects: You can pass meshes, curves and even instancers to use them as masks

• Distance: Distance of the objects' proximity mask

• Sampling: A higher value results in more precise proximity masking, but at a heavier cost (especially if your proximity objects are scatter instances)

Object Masking

• Objects: Samples objects near the meshes.

• Distance: Controls distance of the padding we add to the inside mask

• Keep Inside: When set to true, ensures that we only keep what's inside of our meshes.

Misc

• Random Remove: Randomly removes percentage wise

• Seed: Modifies the randomization process