Futuristic Building Creation

[IonutAlixandroae4]

Hello guys,

I`m trying to write a cga code for generating a futuristc building but I`m having some problems in spliting the roofs and applying different heights.

To understand better I have attached some pictures of the building I need to recreate.

I tried to define different roofs and apply a setback or a split to obtain those shapes but I didn`t had a reference..

Do you guys know how to split the building in the form from pictures so I will be able to apply different height to obtain that form?

Thanks,

Ionut

[Anonymous User]

Use 4 different start shapes. Or just make a static model. Unless you need to make a collection of buildings based on this form, then no reason to make it procedurally.

[IonutAlixandroae4]

Hi Chris,

Well, I do need this model made procedurally because there are some possibilities to apply the rule to an entire block. It would be easier to make it manually in Maya I think but I have to have a rule for it...:)

Do you have an idea how to split the roofs into those shapes?

Thanks!

[Anonymous User]

Each of these shapes is concave. In CGA, you cannot split shapes to create a concave shape, unless the shape is already concave, so you could create those shapes by drawing the shapes with the Polygonal Shape Creation tool, and use a single rule that inserts those shapes (or a single combined multipatch which could be comped apart).

For a neighborhood or complex of these buildings, you could model several collections of these. That is, one set of four that is like your diagram above, and then several variations of that pattern.

Besides comping them apart, you could also add object attributes that indicate which style each shape should assume.

Chris

[IonutAlixandroae4]

Thank you Chris! I will try the way you suggested

[curtedmonds]

One approach could be to create a grid (10x15) depending on building width/height ) each split grid face with an index, then remove polys by index number to created this look, each house would be unique or same depending on seed number. you could also use this to create Different materials. and with cleaver math do some very interesting shapes.

[IonutAlixandroae4]

Hi Curt,

Well I just created different features similar to the shapes of the constrution. It was easier and also easier to apply different rules to obtain the result

Thanks for the feedback!

Ionut

[AlanKlys]

Not sure if this will help Ionut but I've done something along those lines by creating the shapes externally (as my buildings needed to be based on actual footprints) then breaking them up into simple chunks.  That base gets  brought into CE and extruded accordingly.  You can even stack them to produce nice overhangs and such.  So it's not all procedural as the shapes aren't derived from the lot / setbacks /slicing etc but good for some specific building massing. 

[curtedmonds]

thats nice alan.

do you cull out the internal polys? ie: touces(intra)

or you make the shapes on top of the next roof.

c

[IonutAlixandroae4]

Hello!

Sorry for not replying in time! Regarding what i`ve asked, my solution was to have 4 records in the feature class used in CE and have a rule applied differently to those shapes, exactly how you said and did.

It looks awesome what you`ve done in the animation above

Thank you!