Random texture origin for FOR – TO – NEXT

[jc4d]

Hello,

I have a simple block using FOR – TO – NEXT to duplicate it, is there a way to add a random texture origin to each duplicated so there is no visible texture repetitions?

Juan.

[Peter Baksa]

Yes, you have to move it along X axis to change.

Using bare SYMB_POS_X as the seed is predictable, it might not look good with repeated objects. The % trick works well when the changes of the dividend are huge relative to the divisor. For a huge dividend you need a huge seed.

There are two ways to work around this:

• mix up SYMB_POS_X, SYMB_POS_Y, their integer and fractional parts
• use SYMB_POS_X to get a random number in a huge range which you can use as seed

[Lingwisyer]

Yeah... need an internal origin version of SYMB_POS_X. The material will change as you move the entire object around....Would have thought that multiplying it by a value that changes every loop would work, but apparently not... 

[Lingwisyer]

So, I inserted a text output after the material line with the expression of the the randomised array output, and each iteration through the loop gives a different number and has a different material applied to it, so it does work. It is just for some reason not applying to my prism_, cylind or cpism_{2}... I thought maybe group might be affect the interaction, but moving the command to within the group did not change anything...

Ling.

ps. I put my test text and shapes in a group, and they all became uniform...

pss. Solved.

PLACEGROUP CREATEGROUPWITHMATERIAL (Square_Top, 2, 1, mat_array[int(rnd(abs(iDis)) % mat_count) + 1])

This does add ALOT of lines though...