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Cloning shapes of varied heights
I’m really surprised no one has mentioned this – or at least I can’t find anything on it.
I have 4 shapes – they look the same – they are tall but some have 5 notches, some have 4, 3 or 2. I need them randomized in a cloner to create a wall of them but the cloner needs to identify that each one is a different height and align them properly because if they are next to one another and offset by a certain percentage, they would fit into one another on the sides (symmetrical). Anyone know how to do this?
I suppose a simpler way of asking is – how do I get a cloner to clone objects of different heights but still maintain the same space between every clone?
Thank you all!
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Hi Brian,
If I understand your goal correctly, I don’t think you can achieve a gap-free, non-overlapping wall from four cubes of different lengths using a Cloner, because the Cloner only controls spacing along the three axes — it has no awareness of each element’s actual length.
Say the cube lengths range from 100 to 400. If you set the Cloner’s spacing to 100 or less, you’ll inevitably get overlaps, since some cubes are longer than 100. If you set it to 400 or more, you’ll inevitably get gaps, since some cubes are shorter than 400. And if you set the spacing somewhere between 100 and 400, you’ll still end up with both gaps and overlaps, because some cubes are longer than that value and others shorter.
Introducing randomness, or changing the seed, doesn’t help either — it only randomizes which cube gets placed where, not the underlying mismatch between the Cloner’s fixed spacing and each cube’s actual length. So a different approach is needed.
I’ll look at some of the easier alternatives and explain how to do it here. I hope this has been helpful so far.
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