Scatter Balloons

[memu]

Im trying to copy a bunch of balloons across a surface using the scatter sop without the objects intersecting eachother. I saw a tutorial where Peter Quint used a pointsop to base the scale on ptarea, but the promblem is that it leaves a lot of gaps between the objects, when i increase the scatter amount, the ballons gets smaller and doesnt fill the area so well.

How can i go about doing this? I attached a simple scene so that you can see what i mean.

Thanks in advance and happy new year!

[freaq]

I do not see your scene, maybe try reuploading it?

ps a scatter gives the opposite of an even distribution of points,

although I understand what you are trying to do you might want to try and approach your problem a different way.

making the ballons push eachoterh away for example, or adding them from a central point in the middle.

I have made a scattters distribution more "even" by fusing points afterwards,

but I doubt that is very usefull for your case.

[bloomendale]

Hi.

You can scatter denser pointcloud then you actually need. then for every particle search for neighbours that is closer then some distance (for example = baloon's diameter) and kill them.