Placement Paths

Placement Paths are an essential part of site population. They are designed to allow users to quickly populate the site with temporary site fencing, Scaffolding, and Foliage.

A solid understanding of Placement Paths requires the user to be familiar with controlling and creating Paths. There are three types of placment paths in Fuzor:

Equipment Paths allow the user to place large amounts of the same equipment quickly. These paths are effective at adding scaffolding, Barriers and Fences, and other site equipment like Dumpsters and Lighting. Equipment is placed from the Content Library.

Foliage Line Paths allow the user to place large amounts of Foliage in rows.

Foliage Area Paths allow the user to place large amnounts of Foliage in a given area.

Foliage is placed from Foliage Placement.

There are functions in the Path Settings menu that are only available when a Foliage Placement Path or an Equipment Placement Path is selected.

Equipment Paths allow you to control the spacing of content on the path.

The Spacing textbox defines the distance between content on the path.

The Fit to path button ensures that objects are evenly spaced on the path.

Some equipment in fuzor can have segments added to increase the height. for example scaffolding towers can be edited to have mulitple levels.

The Add Level textbox will appear if scaffolding is placed on an equipment path. the Value in the textbox controls the number of added segments.

In addition to controlling spacing Foliage allows you to control the height and position of content on the path.

The Use Custom Height checkbox allows you to set a custom height with the adjacent textbox.

The Height Randomness slider control the variance in height of foliage on the path.

The Direction slider controls the base rotation.

The Randomize Direction slider controls the variance in rotation of content.

The Position Randomness slider controls the variance in position along the path.

The Randomize Offset slider controls the variance in position on the plane that the path is place on.

Foliage Paths allow you to automatically populate them with landscape content.

Within the dropdown menu is an organized hierarchy of content that can be placed on the associated path. To select content, use the checkbox adjacent to its name.

Equipment and Foliage can be added to Construction, Demolition, Temporary and Equipment Tasks. For more general information about how to create tasks and their functionality see Object Assignment.

Use the Add To Task button to add all the objects on a Placement Path to a task.

When Vehicles or Equipment are added to Construction, Demolition and Temporary tasks it can be animated in Fuzor like any other object in the model. For more information see 4D Animations. This means that a stagger animation can be used to place row of barriers.

When Equipment is added to an equipment task an equipment animation can be selected to playback during the task’s duration. Objects can either stay visible after the end of the task or be removed.