TUTORIAL: Creating a Drop Kerb with RailClone in 3ds Max (intermediate)

In this quick tip tutorial for RailClone 2, we're going to look at how you can apply specific generators, or styles, to different segments of the same base spline according to their material ID. We'll create a pavement style that adds a drop kerb to any spline segment with a material value equal to 2. In creating these styles, we'll also be covering the combine, sequence, and reverse nodes.
Read a written version of this tutorial and download scene files from the iToo Software website: bit.ly/2DGhvPJ
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[@JaumeCabistany]

very useful, thanks!! RailClone interface is quite confusing for starters, so appreciate these tuts a lot, keep them coming!

[@gkruhonj]

Awesome tutorial!

[@bolbolegypttuber]

amazing solution

[@HungViet-rz7kl]

Thanks! Very useful!

[@designsforge4153]

Hi, I was thinking about purchasing railclone, but in a bit of a doubt because I need it for a specific purpose. I want to create different road segments like motorways, trunk roads, residential etc and be able to control them using with different Ids. Question is, how does the clipping happen between two different segments ? For example when a motorway exits into a ramp. How can these two items work seamlessly with Railclone ?

[@daveson3D]

bummer, was modeling my own kerb to follow tutorial, downloaded railclone lite v4, only lets you create one generator...ah well, guess id better start saving to buy it, wish forest pack pro clients would get a bigger discount than 10% for Railclone. thx for tutorial anyway

[@Salamon_Zsolt]

it would be nice to have the 3D files

[@abderafiksemassel5880]

nice ... how to get a different color in each kerb?? for exmple: red and white

[@itoosoft]

THanks, You could use the Material node to create a sequence of different Material IDs. Feel free to drop a message on our forum if you'd like more info.

[@abderafiksemassel5880]

@@itoosoft thanks ...

[@johnbrown9918]

can this be copied and applied to another spline, so as to avoid doing the whole process all over from scratch?

[@faheemrana1281]

this is what I am still looking for an answer. I have a big master plan to which I need to do kerbs and paves but no solution

[@Baronial10]

All great except for the fact that if there is any slope at all in the site, the road built through Railclone will break in all sorts of horrible ways. It can't seem to handle slopes at all. It tries to do "banking" or something and brakes it in all kinds of ways (intersects itself, breaks in road, twisted, etc). Kind of defeats my whole reason for purchasing Railclone in the first place -_- Thought it would be able to lay down roads and sidewalks on a sloped site but yeah... nope...... unfortunate.

[@itoosoft]

Hi, you might find changing the Deform mode for the segments to Vertical helps on sloped sites (It'll stop banking) Feel free to drop our support team an email, they might be able to help further. www.itoosoft.com/contact

[@MiledRizk]

Hi, what might be helpful in this case is to go to the Interpolation parameter in the spline shape and try to increase the Steps value.