topic Re: Cant changer surface in GDL

Cant changer surface

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 07:29:17 GMT

Hi

I have som objects that have been made of morphs, and some has been importer as RFA objects, and converted to morph. When im saving them after morph, im saving them as MEP PARTS.
The problem is, i cant change the surface where i want it to.

If you look on the attached image, i want to change the surafe there, at number 1, but when i do, nothing is happening. But at number 2, i can change it, but i dont want to change it there. Where can this be fixed?

Re: Cant changer surface

Peter Baksa — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:22:56 GMT

Did you also turn off the override at 2 by clicking the paintbrush icon?

Re: Cant changer surface

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 08:19:59 GMT

Hi.

Yes, when its off its the same, cant change it where i want to.

Re: Cant changer surface

Peter Baksa — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 08:50:13 GMT

It looks like the created object uses hard-coded attributes. The parameters you see on the UI are parameters of the selected subtype, but they aren't connected to anything in the script. I will report it as a bug.

Re: Cant changer surface

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 08:56:03 GMT

Alright.

So what can i do with it now? Can it be fixed somehow? Do I just need to wait?

Re: Cant changer surface

Peter Baksa — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:16:00 GMT

SandraGS wrote:
Alright.

So what can i do with it now? Can it be fixed somehow? Do I just need to wait?

You have to edit the generated 3D script to use parameters instead of hard-coded string attributes. You might have to add more parameters if the morph has many surfaces.

Re: Cant changer surface

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:40:41 GMT

This is very new to me, so can you maybe show me an example? Of where i need to change it?

Its a lot in the script, and i dont know where to start or what to remove or anything.

Re: Cant changer surface

Lingwisyer — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 01:45:19 GMT

Is the whole object a single material? If so...

Open the Parameters Script of the object and find the parameter that matches what you have highlighted in your image. Take note of that variable (A).
In the 3D Script add a line at the start that is "Material [variable A]"
Search through the rest of the script and remove any other "Material" commands. Just putting an exclamation mark infront of the command will ignore it.

Ling.

Re: Cant changer surface

Peter Baksa — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 17:04:00 GMT

SandraGS wrote:
This is very new to me, so can you maybe show me an example? Of where i need to change it?

Its a lot in the script, and i dont know where to start or what to remove or anything.

The 3D script contains statements like


r = REQUEST{2} ("Building_Material_info", "Water", "gs_bmat_surface", bms_47)
set building_material "Water", 104, -1
material "Wood - Pine Grained Horizontal"

In this situation building_material only defines the cut surface and fill of the object. The materials are the outer surfaces. Count the number of different strings for each type.

In the parameter list search for "surface". There is the generated parameter MainBoxMaterial. Add new surface or building material parameters in the quantity you need. You can use MainBoxMaterial for the main surface. Give them a nice name and replace the strings in the script with the names, without quotation marks. eg

material MainBoxMaterial

Re: Cant changer surface

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:16:35 GMT

Hi.

So, both your suggestions didnt work for me.

I couldnt find any paramters that matches what im looking for in the parameter script..

And when im trying to change the surface, nothing happens.

But i had support case with a client earlier, and found out that some objects in the archicad library, has the same problem, just there you actully can change it where you want to.

Maybe this says you guys something more then me? Why can i change it there?

Re: Cant changer surface

A_ Smith — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:30:56 GMT

If you can't post the object, it's hard to tell what is wrong. I can only suggest you do as Ling said. If the object is made of one type of material you could manually comment each material statement in 3D sript - press Ctrl+F (windows OS) and replace "material" with "!material" - apply to all. Now all materials are ignored. All that is left to write new material statement with the new_material_variable at the beginning of 3D Script - [SET] MATERIAL name_or_index. You have to create this new_material_variable in Parameters, not Parameter Script.

Re: Cant changer surface

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 07:18:05 GMT

Hi

I can post the object.

You can download it from here

https://we.tl/t-7UlgQhBpry

Re: Cant changer surface

Barry Kelly — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 07:46:23 GMT

You will need to open the object and edit the 3D script.

Search for all of the lines that say .... material "Plastic - White"
There are more than I show in the image.

This is hard coding the material to Plastic - White.

Replace the line with ... material MainBoxMaterial

This will now use the material parameter that you want - make sure you don't use quotes.

Barry.

Re: Cant changer surface

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:59:12 GMT

Hi

This was working wery well on some of the objects.
So thank you so much

But i have some objects its not working on.

Could you mayhbe take a look at that as well?

https://we.tl/t-V1C9bEVkMP

Re: Cant changer surface

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 10:02:19 GMT

I know that i need to change the material name, but when i do that same process, i can only change surface on the little dot in the middle, and i want to change it all

Re: Cant changer surface

A_ Smith — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:36:12 GMT

Well, you should look through the whole 3D script for material statements. Here there are several of them - for different materials - variables bms_1 and bms_168, and ordinary materials - "Maling - 01 Matt" and "Maling - 01 Blank".
that's why you need to add after requests bms_1=MainBoxMaterial and bms_168=MainBoxMaterial and replace those materials as you did before

Re: Cant changer surface

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 13:47:59 GMT

Thank you so much everyone. Its what i wanted now