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Aug 3, 2024, 3:51:12 PM8/3/24

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SCATTER is a local authority focussed emissions measurement and modelling tool, built to help create low-carbon local authorities. SCATTER provides local authorities and city regions with the opportunity to standardise their greenhouse gas reporting and align to international frameworks, including the setting of targets in line with the Paris Climate Agreement. Its use is free of charge to all local authorities in the UK.

Anthesis is funded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ, formerly BEIS) through the Midlands Net Zero Hub to develop SCATTER and to take forward enhancements to the online tool for this year.

We have now updated the SCATTER Inventory tool to show emissions inventories based on 2019 data as of June 2022. This includes an explanation of the changes to the underlying data from which emissions are calculated, compared to 2018. Click on the Inventory 'Create a Report' page to download your local authority area emissions inventory for 2019.

As part of this funding, we have developed an improved version of SCATTER Pathways, which is now available in an Excel-based tool. Local Authorities can now use this new version of Pathways to model set emissions scenarios and compare them to local targets. This Pathways tool will now allow you to:

Anthesis director, Brad Blundell, said

Working out what actions will have the greatest impact as cities and city-regions look to reduce carbon emissions is a complex task. Turning those actions into a workable plan that is broadly supported by stakeholders is equally challenging. This is where SCATTER comes in, simplifying the measurement of emissions, helping cities to model scenarios, set reduction targets and take action.

A collaboration between Anthesis Group, Nottingham City Council, DESNZ (formerly BEIS), Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research at the University of Manchester.

I know this discussion is rather off-topic, but having done a lot of projects in both I can say that the scattering plugins are one of the only things I miss about Max. I wish iToo would find a way to make a Blender version.

The MIST program has been developed to provide users with a general application to model an integrated scattering system. The program performs an integration of the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) over solid angles specified by the user and allows the dependence of these integrals on model parameters to be investigated. The models are provided by the SCATMECH library of scattering codes.

Not familiar with that particular message, but tool #2 in the Scatterplot Macro is the R tool. Whenever you use the R based predictive tools the rules for stricter than Alteryx in general. My checklist is:

Since I am trying to scatter a vray proxy I am having to use the plugin"scatter 1.6" I am using this in Max 2008 64 bit. but for the life of me i cannot get this thing to work. I have selected my emitter object, then I slect my plant that i want to scatter, hit apply using area and nothing happens. Any ideas, or alternatives to scattering a proxy. Thanks so much

You can find solution for scattering VRayProxy on Gugilla website (Gugilla GroundViz plugin). Or iCube Vizualization (iCubeviz.com) VRayScatter. VRayScatter is able to scatter millions of objects (it was announced on icube3d.ru local site only for now).

The climate crisis has prompted numerous local authorities across the UK to make declarations and commitments around climate action and sustainability. As these authorities continue to seek effective strategies to reduce carbon emissions, a challenge has arisen around understanding, measuring, and reporting area-wide greenhouse gas emissions accurately. With many cities pledging significant carbon reduction goals, the need for a comprehensive tool to assess, report, and reduce emissions has become crucial.

Anthesis, in collaboration with Nottingham City Council, BEIS, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research at the University of Manchester, developed SCATTER (Setting City Area Targets and Trajectories for Emissions Reduction). SCATTER is a user-friendly, web-based, interactive greenhouse gas reporting tool designed to assist local authorities. It uses various national and local public datasets to quantify outputs without requiring significant resource commitments from local authorities. The tool integrates key technologies such as carbon capture, decarbonising heat, energy efficiency, electrifying transport, and recycling infrastructure improvements.

Reporting into the CDP-ICLEI Unified System gives local authorities data-driven insights into their climate action. It allows local authorities to transparently track their progress, access best practice and share their data with networks like the Global Covenant of Mayors.

The Google Environmental Insights Explorer tool, created in partnership with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, has been designed to give cities and local governments access to their current emission levels, so they can build a plan to reduce and measure emission levels.

Using data from Google Maps alongside standard greenhouse gas (GHG) emission factors, EIE estimates three city-level data points: building emissions, transport emissions and renewable energy potential (solar).

The tool highlights the significant scale of city emissions and with it their role in being part of the solution. Using common methodology that can be standardised and scaled, it makes it easy for cities to benchmark their emissions against other cities. The tool will be used by city policymakers to develop clear plans of action to reduce their carbon emissions.

This supports local climate action planning and responses to the climate emergency, as well as allowing cities and governments to get an accurate handle of their current emissions and set carbon reduction trajectories and targets that are driven by a technology led approach. This leads to evidence based targeting setting and informed policy making.

For example, a city could model the impact of improving energy efficiency in buildings via retrofit scenarios and new technologies to reduce heat leakage. Or a city could track how carbon capture storage will reduce emissions from industrial use and power generation before investing. Being able to see the potential impacts is a huge benefit for decision makers.

Could you provide a minimum reproducible code example of what you would like to do? It really helps the community better understand your specific question and saves time when trying to answer your question. Thanks

I am not sure how to directly read out the selected points of a scatter plot. Would be nice to know how to do that, if at all possible. The way I did it here is to connect a selection stream to the plot and then read out the index parameter of that stream.

-Re installed the program and re-directed all the default paths to go on to my D:drive rather than c:drive, I have just under 1T of space on the drive and since I started fresh have only got chrome and 3dsmax installed on this computer PLUS double checked that my laptop has all minimum requirements to run the program which it does - way more than the minimum.

If it doesn't crash as soon as I tick "all vertices" then it does soon after its completed the command. It just becomes extremely slow and eventually shuts down. I don't know what else it could be apart from perhaps my Object A is too complicated to duplicate and scatter across all the surface? but then again, I don't see how this program cant support that? I dno.....HELPPPPPPPP (see attached photos)

A SketchUp component used as a Scatter guest needs to have the component instance present in the scene in order to scatter it. Deleting the instance removes the guest despite the component still being present in the SketchUp project. The extra object can be manually hidden (right-click > hide), placed in a separate hidden layer, or moved on the Scatter host surface after scattering.

I've just come off of a a test week using TwinMotion and really enjoyed doing exterior landscape work to my models vs in SketchUp/Enscape. Notably, the paint landscape/objects tool was incredibly easy and useful to use. Now I'm looking for tools and/or methods to use within SketchUp/Enscape which has led me to Scatter. Wondering now if there are any Scatter users around here that use Enscape and if anyone has any tips/feedback/etc for that app. Or maybe there is another plugin I'm not aware of? Thanks all!

it depends what kind of renderer u have or choose , enscape is good with skatter but when u doing 3D grass its litlle bit a laggy /enscape/ due to huge ammount of proxy patches , but this depends how u can setup your proxy , program transmutter is good choise to reduce unnessesery polygones and i think its made by same developer like skatter ...

Skatter is indispensable, I signed up to the earliest possible preview years ago and still use it all the time. It won't be as fast as Twinmotion, or even Forest pack, but it does exactly what it says it does, is quite flexible and is very reliable.

I should add, I am running a dual xeon/RTX3090/256gb RAM 2 x TB SSD machine (though I suspect the advantage of such a machine is limited with SketchUp), so can't say what the results will be on something more consumer-grade.

I've used skatter on projects with enscape, if you are using suitable assets enscape will do well with them. Obviously if you are planting a whole forest, then expect some major fan noise from your workstation.