Python code for Boise de Vaux

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Python code for Boise de Vaux

Postby Godot » Thu May 13, 2010 6:20 am

Shorah all

I have developed a python script that I use to automagically generate the forest for my age of Vaux. I thought that it might be useful to the community as inspiration and as a learning tool for new python coders. I have stripped out some of the details to make it easier to understand but it is still useful as a demo. Just copy the script to a text window in Blender and run it on a default project. It will draw the tree trunks on the fly and distribute them in a Fibonacci distribution. The distribution is spread out (forest size) so you will need to scroll out to a larger scale to see the result. This code can also be used to create realistic flowers. I hope you can have fun with it.
See the code below. Thank you tachzusamm.
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Re: Python code for Boise de Vaux

Postby diafero » Thu May 13, 2010 7:41 am

Thanks a lot for sharing :)

The indention got completely lost, could you perhaps upload it as attachment? Oh, and I'd be interested in some screenshots :)
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Re: Python code for Boise de Vaux

Postby Godot » Thu May 13, 2010 9:18 am

I was unable to upload the file as a .txt so I changed it to .rtf
Copy the text into the Blender text window.
flower.rtf
you can change the extension to .txt
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Re: Python code for Boise de Vaux

Postby Godot » Thu May 13, 2010 9:41 am

This is a simple version of what Boise de Vaux looks like from the top view except that Vaux has the treetop foliage. The central opening contains the lumber mill and paper mill. The gap between the woods contains the cottage and gardens along with a maze so that the player can explore and discover elements of the story. The edge of the age is blocked by a hedge along the inside of the outer forest. The background is beyond the outer edge of the outer forest. The forest of Vaux has 5000 trees in the center and 1000 in the outer forests. This takes quit a long time to render with my current computer with all of the textures and branches etc. The top level code to generate this scene;

scn = Blender.Scene.GetCurrent()
forest(100, 500, 7) # inner woods
forest(1000, 500, 7) # outer woods
Blender.Window.Redraw()
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Re: Python code for Boise de Vaux

Postby diafero » Thu May 13, 2010 11:41 am

You might also try to zip the text file, that should be accepted as attachment.

Wow, indeed this looks naturally distributed. However I fear Uru will not be able to render such huge amounts of trees, or flowers, or whatever...
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Re: Python code for Boise de Vaux

Postby Godot » Thu May 13, 2010 12:04 pm

The game engine only renders objects that are within the view of the player. I also use mist to limit the field of view.
The idea is that the forest needs to be large enough that the player can feel lost and isolated.

I use a modified version of this code to generate flowers then create a texture from the render.
The texture is then added to a simple geometry for the game.

I have been able to download the code file by clicking on the link.
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Re: Python code for Boise de Vaux

Postby Tsar Hoikas » Thu May 13, 2010 3:22 pm

Please embed code inside a [code] bbcode. Thanks.
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Re: Python code for Boise de Vaux

Postby Nadnerb » Thu May 13, 2010 4:28 pm

Godot wrote:The game engine only renders objects that are within the view of the player.


In the case of Plasma, this is not entirely true. It does do frustrum culling, such that only objects that you're facing are rendered, but it doesn't do any kind of occlusion culling, (ie, not rendering objects hidden by other objects) and I'm not entirely clear on what it does about objects that are beyond the max z depth. ("beyond the mist") Generally visibility concerns in large ages are handled in plasma by the use of manually placed regions that control whether an object is drawn or not.
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Re: Python code for Boise de Vaux

Postby Paradox » Thu May 13, 2010 8:21 pm

It shouldn't render objects that are beyond the Yon value set in the .fni file.
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Re: Python code for Boise de Vaux

Postby tachzusamm » Sat May 15, 2010 3:46 am

(same as in top post / attached .rtf file, just the formatted code, for easier reading here)
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""" flower of Fibonacci
    uses the golden mean, phi, to generate coordinates for
    objects to be arranged in a natural order.
    A two dimensional graph of the data will resemble a sunflower.
    The angular displacement between buds is (phi * 360) or
    222.5 degrees (137.5)
   
PARAMETERS:
    firstBud -- relative location of the start of the distribution
      Default = 1 is the center of the scene
    numBuds -- the number of coordinates to be generated.
               The z dimension is set to 0.0 to allow the
               user of the data to set the elevation.
    scale -- set the average distance between buds.
        default value = 1 Blender unit.

"""
#================================
import math

def flower(firstBud = 1, numBuds = 1, scale = 1):
    locations = []
    phi = (math.sqrt(5) - 1) / 2
    radians = 2 * math.pi * phi   

    for index in range(firstBud, firstBud + numBuds + 1):
        distance = math.sqrt(index) * scale
        angle = index * radians
        coord = []
        coord.append(distance * math.cos(angle))
        coord.append(distance * math.sin(angle))
        coord.append(0.0)
        locations.append(coord)
    return locations

#================================
import Blender
from Blender import *
import bpy

def stump():
   
    coords = [[1.0,1.0,0.0], [1.0,-1.0,0.0], [-1.0,-1.0,0.0], [-1.0,1.0,0.0],
              [1.0,0.333333,0.0], [1.0,-0.333333,0.0], [0.333333,1.0,0.0],
              [-0.333333,1.0,0.0], [-1.0,-0.333333,0.0], [-1.0,0.333333,0.0],
              [0.333333,-1.0,0.0], [-0.333333,-1.0,0.0],
              [1.0,0.333333,20.0], [1.0,-0.333333,20.0], [0.333333,1.0,20.0],
              [-0.333333,1.0,20.0], [-1.0,-0.333333,20.0], [-1.0,0.333333,20.0],
              [0.333333,-1.0,20.0], [-0.333333,-1.0,20.0]]
   

    faces = [[0,6,4], [10,1,5], [2,8,11], [3,7,9],
             [4,5,13,12], [6,7,15,14], [4,6,14,12], [9,8,16,17],
             [11,10,18,19], [10,5,13,18], [9,7,15,17], [11,8,16,19]]

    me = bpy.data.meshes.new('Stump')          # create a new mesh
    me.verts.extend(coords)
    me.faces.extend(faces)
   
    return me


#================================
def forest(firstTree, numTrees, scale):       
    locations = flower(firstTree, numTrees, scale)
    me = stump()   
    for index in range(0, numTrees):
        tree = scn.objects.new(me, 'stump')
        x = round(locations[index][0])
        if x % 2:
            x += 1
        y = round(locations[index][1])
        if y % 2:
            y += 1
        z = locations[index][2]
        tree.setLocation(x, y, z)
 
#================================
# prepare the scene   
scn = Blender.Scene.GetCurrent()
forest(100, 100, 7)
Blender.Window.Redraw()



Oh, by the way:
Nature by Numbers

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