The Parliament plug-in is specially developed for creating visualizations of parliament seats in graphics designed for election programs, but it can of course be used in other ways. Parliament creates a “parliament like” seating structure using an object of your selection.

This page contains the following topics and procedures:

Parliament Properties

• Number of items: Allows you to set the number of seats to be created in the parliament structure.

• Number of Rows: Allows you to decide how many rows the parliament seats should be distributed over.

• Scale: Sets the Scaling (locked) of the generated Sub-Containers. Default is 1.0.

• Rebuild Geometry: After having made changes to either Number of items or Number of rows, you must click on this button to apply the changes.

• Inner Radius: Sets the inner radius of the parliament.

• Outer Radius: Sets the outer radius.

• Start Angle: Sets the starting angle which by default is -90° from the Y-axis.

• End Angle: Sets the ending angle, default 90°.

To Create a Parliament Shape

1. Add a group to the scene tree, add material, rotate and set parameters (except Position and Scaling).

2. Add Parliament to the container, and click the Initialize button. By default, the seating is created with 40 seats in three rows. The plug-in then by default creates 40 Sub-Containers that are copies of the core-object. All the newly created Sub-Containers have the same properties as the source object, except from Position and Scaling (if set). Position is set by Parliament to create the parliament structure.

3. Open the transformation editor for the first Sub-Container and set Scaling (locked) to 0.2.

4. Still having the transformation editor open for the first Sub-Container, select all other Sub-Containers and drag and drop the Scaling property onto on of the selected Sub-Containers. This sets the same Scaling parameters for all selected Sub-Containers.