That's pretty damn cool. Was it difficult?

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A couple of things teased my brain a bit, like how to get the matrix to grow from the middle out and getting the kayframe positioning correct so that the growth layers overlapped. But mostly it was fairly standard.

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Thats awesome. I wish I had the brain for scripting. could this script be altered to have more offset and randomness in the buildings growth?

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Heres the script:

maxcols = 100
maxrows = 100
boxsize = 20
spacing = 7.5
maxheight = 100
minheight = 50
maxframes = 900
rows=#()
usedrows=#()
framestep = maxframes / maxcols

for j=1 to maxrows do (
 cols=#() 
 cols2=#()
 for k=1 to maxcols do (
  cols[k] = box length:boxsize width:boxsize height:boxsize 
  cols[k].pos = [0-(maxcols*(boxsize+spacing)/2) + (boxsize+spacing)*(k-1) + boxsize/2 + spacing/2,0-(maxcols*(boxsize+spacing)/2) + (boxsize+spacing)*(j-1) + boxsize/2 + spacing/2,-25]
  cols[k].material = meditMaterials[1]
  cols2[k] = false
 )
 rows[j] = cols
 usedrows[j] = cols2
)

animButtonState = true
for x=1 to maxcols do (
 posindex = ceil (maxcols/2 + x/2)
 negindex = ceil (maxcols/2 - x/2)
 for j=1 to maxrows do (
  for k=1 to maxcols do (
   if j < posindex and  j > negindex and k < posindex and  k > negindex and usedrows[j][k] == false then (
    sliderTime = (x-5)*(framestep+1)
    rows[j][k].height = boxsize 
    sliderTime = x*(framestep+1)
    rows[j][k].height = random minheight maxheight 
    usedrows[j][k] = true
   )
  )
 )
)
animButtonState = false

More randomness could be made by randomly setting a negative starting height for each building, thereby looking like they come out of the ground at different times. And if I recall the x-5 part is the overlap, so by setting it to x-10 you would double the spread of the growth section.

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