Ideally the houses should face the avenues. Place houses randomly at a min distance of 0.7 * max(bounding box.x, bounding box.y). Some buildings intersect, but it's barely noticeable in the final video. With this value, the residential blocks are much more dense. So I scale down the minimum distance between points by 30%. However, I've found that by being too safe, the houses are too sparsed. If I feed the Distance between the min and max points, I can ensure that no house intersects another. The Bounding Box node gives me the bounding box of the union of my houses. This method allows me to set a minimum distance between points. To do that, I used the Distribute Points on Faces node with the Poisson Disk method. I also want to avoid buildings from overlapping one another. I want to randomly place buildings in 'residential blocks'. Some of which were the assembly of several 'buildings'. the mesh that describes the floor plan.Īnd with that, I was able to make a few building types in just a few minutes.I reused the 'solidified wall' approach to help me build a house with only two inputs: It was great to be able to reuse nearly all of my work from the previous post. I also mixed in some Musgrave Texture to make the bricks more bumpy. Imperfections are good, they make the bricks more realistic. It has the added benefit of not being perfectly symmetrical. But I noticed it didn't work in certain directions.

To make bricks, I could have used the Bricks Texture. I also refined the node to avoid generating doors and windows on corners. This way it carves out the exact shape of the window. In order accomodate any window or door design, I modified my geometry node to use the Convex Hulls of the windows instead of cubes. Doors too are made of wood and in my reference pictures, they have a stone arch around them. But in real life, windows have a wooden frame and glass pane. In the previous post, I had carved out windows and doors by generating cubes along the walls, then subtracting them from the wall mesh. In this post, I'll describe the third approach, which consists in building a few building instances (templates), then laying them out. It worked but was quite restrictive in what kind of houses we could produce. In the previous post, I described two approaches to building the medieval city, which consisted in extruding floor plans.

Medieval city buildings per person