3DS Max - Scatter tool problem >_>

Lord Killmore

1. of all , HEY =D
been quite a long time since i was around here so yeaaah....

annyway
im helping a bit out on a modding project for the good ol HL1 engine and we´re creating the maps in max
sux for me since im acutally a lightwave user and im not really good with max .
anyway heres the story:

im trying to put some random rocks and cactuses and stuff in a desert map with the scatter tool since placing them manually would take like...forever xD

andways heres the problem ,
the scatter tool sorta flips the resource object ( the cactus in that case ) on the side and scatters it in that position which isnt exactly what i want obviously

and i cant figure out how to fix that >_>
i was thinking, since the cactus model is an imported OBJ file created in lightwave and its flipped on the side when importing to max that it´s cause of that and maybe the pivot is of so i positioned the pivot in the centre after rotating it the right way n all but still the same problem .

so yeah anybody know what the problem could be ?

sorry for the bad explanation i might post some sceens later im im back at my PC

well hope somebody knows what the problem could be , i might try out some stuff later on but well cant do that atm ^^
so anyway thx in advance and have a nice day

greetz ~LK~

TorQue[MoD]

This post is really old, but I've run into the exact same issue. I'm trying to offset my scatter object in the Z axis, but if I enter a value like -500 trying to get the objects to sink into the ground a bit, some go up and some go down. What gives? It's not placing the objects based on the pivot either. Really irritating.

Eric Chadwick

Scatter compound object is one of the older tools, so it's had less love than newer approaches. Thankfully like everything else in Max there are multiple ways to scatter things.

Object Paint is pretty nice https://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-2C745521-EAD4-4A9E-A2CF-7A4B6DDC486D

Array modifier is the newest tool. https://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-A3E4BBDD-31BC-4207-8F10-77C693E29341

There's also MassFX and Particle Flow for simulations. And there are some scattering tools in the Tools menu.

gnoop

For uncertain reason 3d max never ever had a simple and  convenient scatter tools . It  had always been 3d party plugins.      Object paint is destructive  ans slow.    Array modifier  is not even close to geometry nodes in Blender.    Last thing  I used was  particle flow  but it's sort of like Creation graph  , nobody use it  because of non stop puzzles and inconvenient node system.    

     So best simple option is  probably  Forest pack  from itoo  but after Blender  geometry nodes I can't tolerate it either.    Still pretty simple and easy to use.

mihail.lupu

you can try corona scatter. I found it very handy for simple tasks. It comes with corona render engine. It has straight forward workflow and quite simple to use this plug-in. Also you can give it a try with array mod (depends what you want), but array is array and scatter is something else.
cheers!
-M.