Spawning Meshes Randomly in a Circle

Feanix · November 21, 2014, 9:03pm

I can’t see why this isn’t working. The image shows the nodes for generating the location part of the transform. I’m using the formula from here:

P.S. I’m aware I’m using the formula that clusters objects near the centre, that’s fine for now. I want to see a circle outline before I start complicating things.

TJ_V · November 24, 2014, 8:34pm

Hi Feanix,

Try this setup.

Instead of the Sin and Cos using degree’s, try Radians. They are generally easier to work with in UE4.

Here is the formula that we worked from.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

TJ

Feanix · November 26, 2014, 10:37am

Thanks for your answer! I’m posting an updated image of what I used here, for completeness sake.

The specfic mistake I made was using two different random angles for X and Y instead of one, meaning I was getting X and Y coords from completely unrelated circles. Durr.