FREE Procedural Building Generator - Thesis

nsamadisy

Hey guys, I hope you can spare some time to try out my script. It's a procedural building generator designed to make buildings suitable for game environments.

You can download the script HERE

Version: 1.07 -Added a (finally) functioning controller to adjust the vertical positioning of aligned assets, and I also made the tool work on any Max version 2010, 2011, or 2012!

Version 1.08
Middle floors can now be either one single piece of geometry or each middle floor can be it's own piece of geometry. You get to decide.

Please, PLEASE fill out this survey as this is for my thesis that I will be defending soon - the more responses and advice\criticism I get the better!

Thanks, have fun, and I hope you use this in your workflow! Remember this is absolutely free to use!

If you have any questions you can email me , and I'll reply ASAP.

ZacD

No pictures or video demos? I don't think many will download without an image at least.

RictusGrin

Agreed. It'd be helpful to have a short video on youtube of it in action.

nsamadisy

Okay - I've just posted some screenshots... I can't post a video - part of the whole deal is how intuitive (or not) the tool is. I can say that you can make custom or random buildings - apply different textures to it all - and align anything you want along any selected sides or floors and adjust those real-time.

Also - I can't take screenshots of all the features for the same reason - this tool can do much more than what's illustrated in these pics.
Thanks for the heads up on the lack of images!
Nasser

Computron

Are uv auto-generated?

nsamadisy

Yes they are - No unwrapping necessary.

Computron

Cool, I gave it a try but (1.06) is so glitchy I couldn't get it to work. kept saying my spline wasn't closed (it was) and other various errors

nsamadisy

Well, I'm really surprised, but oh well... thanks for trying. Even harsh criticism is good for answering the questions in the survey - I'd appreciate it if you took a few minutes - I think it's only 8 questions. Thanks again!

renderhjs

Most are probably already aware of GhostTown, but I think they did many things right from a workflow way:
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/ghosttown-lite

nsamadisy

Yeah - I like that one lots... Mine is different though - you can actually fine tune all the assets you bring in - not have them just repeated evenly all over each floor\facade. Each tool has it separate use. But definitely Ghost Town will get a generic town populated super quick!

nsamadisy

New Version: 1.07 -Added a (finally) functioning controller to adjust the vertical positioning of aligned assets, and I also made the tool work on any Max version 2010, 2011, or 2012!

nsamadisy

Version 1.08
Middle floors can now be either one single piece of geometry or each middle floor can be it's own piece of geometry. You get to decide.