Hi CE folks,
I think this question is / might be for the developers as I can't
seem to make CE do what I need.
I have two separate shape layers - one represents building podiums (green) the other building towers (pink).
Each of these has a different rulefile applied.
I'm using the minimum distance function to dynamically adjust the height (labeled tag on the roof of the podium) that the towers get placed upon as labels and distances to them seems to be the only way I can achieve this.
The general idea being that we can bring in GIS podium layers with a "number of levels" field and then bring in a separate towels layer and dynamically generate towers that sit upon podiums.
This all works well when the podiums are the same, or very similar size, with a reasonable separation distance.
When they get closer together however, in a denser neighborhood with smaller podium separation, the whole thing falls apart. It's all to do with geometry and distances as per the last two frames of the GIF.
I'm wondering if it's possible to request an additional query (or set of to make it more flexible) to the minimum distance function. So in this case I would only want to pull in the Y distance with my psudo code ...
minimumDistance(inter,y,"PodiumRoof")
Is that remotely possible as a request I wonder ?
Other options would also be handy ...
minimumDistance(inter,xz,"PodiumFloor")
As in querying minimum distance on a plane.
Hope all that makes sense.
Cheers.