Making an Addon by Programming

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An addon that I have made in my Master’s course. Users can generate Japanese traditional roof tiled building models with this addon.I have made this as a part of my thesis, and I will show a part here.

（P.S. on 22nd Aug 2022）I'll talk at the 27th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan with this thema(not reviewed).

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Environment

Blender，Python

Concept

Buildings in a city sometimes has a common feature for each city. (e.g. London: Brick buildings, Edo (Samurai era): Tiled roof.) Procedutal modeling, that can generate many models with common features, is useful for illustrate such city views. Then I have made this addon.

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Parameters ans Results

Users can generate building models in various shapes with changing parameters. The parameters are related to the basic building shapes, e.g. Height, depth, or width.

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Roof Generation

Roof generation is an important process in generating building models. The system moves and rotates simple models like tiles. A slope of a roof is generated by boolean operation between arrayed tiles and basic slope shape.

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Material Generatoin

The addon also generates materials for building models. Textures and patterns on the models are generated by multiplying noise textures.

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