global anti-overlap auto adjustment - Can I turn it off?

[kalan]

Has anyone found a way to turn off the global anti-overlap auto adjustment without using the method on this page? 
basefount.atlassian.net/wiki/display/MDE/Pairing+Placement

I didn't need to do everything in that tutorial, so I stopped at the point of turning off the auto adjustment, unfortunately, when the placement nodes are children of other placement nodes agents won't place on them.

The problem is that I have a lot of placement nodes for a very large scene. The more nodes I place, the more they start to act strangely, in particular the ones set to "formation." I found that by parenting the placement nodes, making adjustments, then unparenting them again will give me clean placements without a lot of distortion, but it's a hassle.


Global anti-overlap auto adjustment is a cool feature, but it seems to be causing problems in my placement nodes that are nowhere near each other. It would be great if I could just turn it off.

Thanks,
Kalan

[Yeah YANG]

Hello Kalan,

Please group them into different blank group with 0 translate and rotate, the detail is below:

1.
Please parent them into different blank groups
Like this:
group1 > place1
group2 > place2
group3 > place3

2.
And also make sure groups are zero translate and rotate.
group1 (translate 0 0 0, rotate 0 0 0, scale 1 1 1)
group2 (translate 0 0 0, rotate 0 0 0, scale 1 1 1)
group3 (translate 0 0 0, rotate 0 0 0, scale 1 1 1)

3.
Then they'll not anti-overlap for all the place node.

Hope this helps!
--Yeah

[kalan]

Hi Yeah,

That worked thank you.

The first time I did it, I parented the groups under another placement node, and the agents did not place.
Once I tried it the way you suggested here it worked.

Thanks again.

Kalan