Comments on: Painting Instanced Objects

By: Adele Michaels

Adele Michaels — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:18:31 +0000

This is awesome! thank you for posting this but why isnt there any source files? I would have loved to seen the finished house, and examined the rest of them too, and kept the video for reference instead of having to go back and view it on the web.

By: Jamie Osman

Jamie Osman — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:16:43 +0000

Is there a reason why there are no source files.

By: Un Iha

Un Iha — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:34:14 +0000

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

By: Brian L.

Brian L. — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:13:03 +0000

Great tutorial, as usual! Very in-depth.

By: lorne

lorne — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:33:04 +0000

Hi, great tutorial, but I am having a problem. I created a plane object and mapped a plant to it, then I painted it using the method above but the plant was painting “horizontally” on the surface, not vertically. So I rotated the plant object (plane) horizontally, then when I painted it, it painted vertically.

Any ideas how to change the original plant plane so it can be vertical and paint vertical too?

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:14:00 +0000

Never mind, I figured it out. Although the “center” of my instanced object was in the correct location relative to it’s self (a plant similar to yours), it was in the wrong location relative to the world. Moving the plant (original object to be instanced) to the 0,0,0 location fixed everything.

Thanks again for the tutorial.
-Jim

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:30:13 +0000

AWESOME tutorial, Mr. Dillon. I’m using it on a model of my own home while my wife complains about “fixing up” my 3D home rather than the real one. I told her “the weather is better in CGI-Land” but she didn’t get it.

I do have a big problem, though. None of my objects are ever placed in the same spot as the particle on my plane (or whatever surface I’m using). Is there a hidden offset setting somewhere? On another model today, they’re showing up on the correct X and Y coordinates, but they are about -10 clicks below (Z-Axis) the plane. Please Help.
-Jim

By: woody730b

woody730b — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:39:30 +0000

Good stuff for still life, but is there anything for say animations. In other words can I take the same techniques and make them interact with say wind?

By: IllegalEagle

IllegalEagle — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:54:50 +0000

Either that or the “Dupli Group” button found under the group choosing has been pressed.

By: kernond

kernond — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:04:53 +0000

Thanks!

To get one group element at a time, try setting the Strength parameter to 1 (found on the Particle Edit Properties panel when in the Particle Mode).