topic Material // Fill Direction in section/elevation in GDL

Material // Fill Direction in section/elevation

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 07:31:51 GMT

I've programmed a Door for a shower wall and the Material Fill is mirrored if the Door is mirrored.
It looks very jarring compared to the Glas wall next to it.

Is it somehow possible to define the direction of the fill based on the Global direction as supposed to the orientation of the Object?

Re: Material // Fill Direction in section/elevation

Lingwisyer — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 01:24:44 GMT

There is a GDL command that queries whether a door or window is mirrored or not. Using that return as a boolean, you could insert a section to change to texture orientation.

Page 578 in the GDL Reference Guide?

Ling.

Re: Material // Fill Direction in section/elevation

Barry Kelly — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 01:27:53 GMT

Arnaut2604 wrote:
I've programmed a Door for a shower wall and the Material Fill is mirrored if the Door is mirrored.
It looks very jarring compared to the Glas wall next to it.

Is it somehow possible to define the direction of the fill based on the Global direction as supposed to the orientation of the Object?

Look into the use of VERT and COOR to redefine the material orientation.
You will need to trap it if the object is mirrored.

So something like ...

body -1
MATERIAL ....
PRISM_ .... (or what ever it is you use to model the door panel)

if SYMB_MIRRORED = 1 then
    VERT 0,0,0 !Origin
    VERT -1,0,0 !X direction
    VERT 0,1,0 !Y direction
    VERT 0,0,1 !Z direction
    COOR 2+256,1,2,3,4
    body -1
endif

I think the '-1' for the X direction will mirror the material.
I am not able to check it at the moment, but I am pretty sure it is something like that.

Barry.

Re: Material // Fill Direction in section/elevation

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:18:30 GMT

Perfect! Worked a charm!
Thanks so much!

I spent hours trying and couldn't get it to work

Re: Material // Fill Direction in section/elevation

Barry Kelly — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 01:39:38 GMT

Arnaut2604 wrote:
Perfect! Worked a charm!
Thanks so much!

I spent hours trying and couldn't get it to work

Awesome.

Barry.