How can I do random heights for a number of surfaces??? NEED HELP ASAP

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Permalink Reply by Boris Yundelson on October 16, 2010 at 12:02pm

The random component (the N input) asks for the number of values

Permalink Reply by Marco Sosa on October 16, 2010 at 12:08pm

THANK YOU SO MUCH IT WORKED!

Permalink Reply by Marco Sosa on October 16, 2010 at 12:55pm

BTW is there a way to extrude in the direction of the surface? with what component should I replace the vector? THANKS AGAIN!!

Permalink Reply by Marco Sosa on October 16, 2010 at 1:00pm

oops sorry, heres what I mean, not a extrusion in the direction of the surface, but in the direction of the louvers I got. Bcuz they all grow in the z axis

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Permalink Reply by Boris Yundelson on October 16, 2010 at 2:12pm

ok so this may not be the best method, im sure theres a better way to do this, but this is all i could think of atm hope it helps I've incorporated the random component for what you need, you can also control the random domain by increasing the upper limit on the slider

Permalink Reply by Marco Sosa on October 16, 2010 at 5:39pm

it kinda works, but the offset goes below the plane that I want, how can I limit that?

Picture 1) shows what I want it to do, for all the surfaces, so no offset goes below the intial surface

Picture 2) shows what the definition is doing

please help =..(

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Permalink Reply by Boris Yundelson on October 16, 2010 at 10:24pm

You have the inputs backwards for the domain, lets say you want to randomly extrude from 12-20 values you would set the A input of the domain to 12 and the B to 20. Then you'll have however many random extrusions ranging from 12 to 20. Hope that clears things up. Good Luck

Permalink Reply by Marco Sosa on October 17, 2010 at 12:09am

I dont know what to do anymore =S , I did what you say, it works in other surfaces, but when i try it in the louvers, this is what happens:

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Permalink Reply by Boris Yundelson on October 17, 2010 at 7:43am

its working but inversely, you have to negate the values somehow to make it go in the right direction, try playing wit the domain and making negative values for both inputs and see if that works, otherwise post your .3dm file and definition and ill take a look at it

Permalink Reply by Hairy Curvy on August 14, 2015 at 7:46am

Hi Boris,

Im doing this random stuff at the moment, just wanna know why you use list length as the 'N' value

because i actually dont understand what 'list length' means

Thanks