Bentley LumenRT Help

Vehicles

The Vehicles menu allows you to add all sorts of vehicles to your LiveCube.

This is topically Menu Bar > Add Vehicle

The Vehicle icon allows you to select and add single or multiple copies of a vehicle object to your scenes.

When you choose one of the object icons, a browser displays the objects available to add.

To access this library there are five option. With help of those you can modify your scene with vehicles.

The options are as follows:
SettingDescription
Add Object It allows you to place a vehicle from the Vehicle library.
  • From the Type section you can choose the placement mode of the Vehicle.

  • Once a selection has been made from the browser, the object displays in a small window. The two icons to the left are for placing the single object in the scene or painting a group of objects. Objects can be placed individually or placed as random single instances from a collection. Toggling the circular Add Items Button will toggle placement from a single instance to a random selection. Press <Esc> to end adding objects. Otherwise, another copy of that object appears for you to add another copy of that object. Clicking the ellipse icon opens a browser for you to select another object.

    Select the object and the Selection menu icons display to manipulate the selected plant moving it around, resizing. Press <Esc> to release the object.

Pain Instances With Help of this tool, Objects are painted where you want them to appear with a brush using the brush settings.
  • Size - Sets the application area of the brush.
  • Flow - Sets the emitter intensity
  • Softness - Sets the amount of feathering at the edge of the brush.
  • Erase Brush, Erase Airbrush - If selected, enables the eraser brush which removes objects from the scene.
  • Base Scale - Sets the scale of the object being painted.
  • Scale Variation - Sets the amount of scale variance in the object population.
Populate Along a Spline This tool allows the placement of vehicles along a spline curve.
  • Mode - This indicates the method for populating vehicles along the spline curve. From the right side drop-down list you can select 4 types of Mode, such as Fixed Distance, Fixed number of instances, Mixed Mode, Density Mode.
  • Distance - You can control the distance between two objects by adjusting the slider. You can adjust the Parameter between two objects or could put the numeric value for the given mode.
Populate Inside an Area This tool allows you to populate inside an given area.
  • Mode: You can select Random or Regular mode.
  • Distance: You can control the distance between two objects by adjusting the slider.
Create Traffic

The LumenRT Traffic Tool allows the rapid creation of traffic along any road or highway. Please go through the topic, 'Traffic Tools' for detailed discussion.