Is there a procedural way of creating a breakwater?

Kyle_butler

Hi, all! 
I'm stuck at creating this object. It is something that every now and again I have to recreate with different stones etc And every time I have to either scatter the geometry with some plugin or place by hand...

I'm sure there are more efficient ways out there ...  Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Eric Chadwick

Physics tools have gotten pretty good. Have you looked at tyFlow?

Michael Knubben

Where are you creating this object?

Max, Blender, ... real life?

Kyle_butler

Hi, Eric! I haven't... Will take a look at this. Any particular source you recommend? 

Michael, forgot to mention: 3ds max 

Eric Chadwick

You should only download from Tyson’s official site. https://pro.tyflow.com/ The free version has all features, except for GPU/CPU acceleration. So it’s fully featured, just slow to process. Check out the Insta for some great videos of just how versatile it is!

Kyle_butler

Thanks, Eric! I've watched some youtube videos about it, lots of potential! I could only achieve something similar to what it can do by a combination of scatter and mass fx. 

sprunghunt

This would be easy to do in Houdini.
https://youtu.be/N7CDHwgWKVo