AREAL3d Playground- Generating variations of a skyline (let's dance)...

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

With selected buildings you can easily generate variations of the skyline of those selected buildings (building heights) with one click.
With no selected building all unlocked buildings in the project will be selected with the tool start.

NOW select the playground from the toolbar!

If no building is selected, all buildings will be selected.
Otherwise only the selected buildings will be randomized.

Every further left-click within the viewport outside the model or leftclick+ALT (anywhere) creates a new variation.
Leftclick on a building locks / unlocks the building (best viewed in block-mode).

Define height-limit (amount of floors) in the context-menu, from a large toolbar or 'on the fly' in the VCB.

For every variation the GFA is calculated and can be displayed in the result images.

Besides that, a 'floorfile' is saved in the output folder for each manual playground-iteration, so that it is possible to review all variations, if necessary.

Tip:
with a larger amount of buildings the viewport may become slower.
Swith to the block-view here, play with the heights and restore later the variations, you liked, afterwords in the detailed design.




CONTEXT MENUE






CONTEXT MENUE - DETAILS


Starting the tool

Anytime you start the 'playground' and no buildings are selected,
all unlocked buildings will be selected.
Otherwise only selected unlocked buildings will be edited.

      With the tool running,
      left mouse locks and unlocks single buildings.
      CTRL+Leftclick selects/deselects buildings.

With the help-console opened you can see the corresponding status of the selection.
Status bar & the console show you also the actual GFA.


Maximum height

Select the maximum height (amount of floors) for the randomizer (or use the VCB)


Desired GFA

WIP : Set the desired GFA for the calculation >> OFFLINE - wip, comming soon, if things work well


Export the results

Export of the 'playground' as a series of jpg's (with options).
>>Details


Open the target folder

if not opened by the tool


Adding views

Add a view directly from the context menue (AREAL3D-Standard view / page menue)
with few clicks, directly from the tool, with some naming options.
>> Details

Exit with options

Avoids unnecessary clicks sometimes....


TIP: 

You can lock a building (or a selection of buildings) anytime to exclude it/them from the following process (next variation), so if some buildings look good for you, lock them and 'play' with the rest.....
With the tool running left mouse locks/unlocks single buildings.
Locked buildings are displayed in red colour in the block view.
CTRL+Leftclick selects/deselects buildings, where unselected buildings are also excluded from the playgroud-variation process.


Example (batch export)   (1 view / 5 variations / max-height 25 F):