02-18-2020, 05:12 PM
Now, that's a tricky question (for me), and if I come up with something simple, I'll definitely post here.
So, you basically want them to pile up... basic rule would be... the more polygon is horizontal, the higher is piling up.
There's, of course, always an option where you could just "let it snow, let it snow"
with PsysX, and high friction, and then mesh them.
But I guess, for larger scenes, that would be absolutely masochistic.
I am thinking of a way... let's say... we render one texture strictly from the top view using a falloff map. Whites would be most horizontal polygon, blacks would be most verticals polygons. We project that map back to the model, and use it as a displace on mesh that will be used for particle placement... that's one idea...
You can also play with Tyselect modifier on the mesh itself. Check "raycast", and you will see icon in submenu... raise that Icon up, and make it point down to the model... it will select your model in similar way like you already did. Then you can play with soft selection.. maybe shrink selection a little bit...
Also, there's an raycast object placement operator in Tyflow that do same kind of selection (raycast)... I didn't also know about it, until today :
So... lot's of stuff to try... I just don't have time.
Maybe Tyson, or someone else, will have some really simple solution for this.
So, you basically want them to pile up... basic rule would be... the more polygon is horizontal, the higher is piling up.
There's, of course, always an option where you could just "let it snow, let it snow"
with PsysX, and high friction, and then mesh them. But I guess, for larger scenes, that would be absolutely masochistic.
I am thinking of a way... let's say... we render one texture strictly from the top view using a falloff map. Whites would be most horizontal polygon, blacks would be most verticals polygons. We project that map back to the model, and use it as a displace on mesh that will be used for particle placement... that's one idea...
You can also play with Tyselect modifier on the mesh itself. Check "raycast", and you will see icon in submenu... raise that Icon up, and make it point down to the model... it will select your model in similar way like you already did. Then you can play with soft selection.. maybe shrink selection a little bit...
Also, there's an raycast object placement operator in Tyflow that do same kind of selection (raycast)... I didn't also know about it, until today :
So... lot's of stuff to try... I just don't have time.
Maybe Tyson, or someone else, will have some really simple solution for this.