topic Re: edit Soccerfield minimum limits in Libraries & objects

edit Soccerfield minimum limits

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:42:20 GMT

Greetings all
I am doing an interior render of a soccer dome sports center, that will mainly have 4 smaller soccer fields and rarely 1 large one.
The trouble is, the soccer field library object only has minimum parameters for the size of a single large one 328'x196', whereas I need 188'x90' for the four soccer pitch fields
Is there a way to edit the GDL parameters to change the minimum length and width
Thanks

Craig
using ArchiCAD 9, on a
Dell XPS420; Quad Core Q6600 @ 2.40GHz ea; Vista HP Sp2; 3070MB RAM
GeForce 8600 GTS; DirectX 10; OGL 2.1.1

Re: edit Soccerfield minimum limits

vistasp — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:13:03 GMT

You'll need to tweak the object a bit first.

After inserting the standard soccer field, open the object (CTRL+SHIFT+O)

In the master script, modify the range of sizes (in metres) that are permitted for length and width.

Save it with a different name, make sure it's in your loaded libraries and you can now insert the new object to the size you want.

Hope this helps.

Re: edit Soccerfield minimum limits

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:12:18 GMT

Thanks vistasp, much appreciated.
That did the trick!
I may have to study it some more to adjust some of the field markings and goal size to the proper ratio, if noticed by the higher-ups, but that is another issue.

Re: edit Soccerfield minimum limits

vistasp — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:23:32 GMT

You might want to explore "MUL" & "MUL2" transformations for a quick fix in 3d & 2d respectively.

Alternatively, if you're up to some more GDL exploration, you can add parameters for all the values you want to modify and replace the hard-coded sizes with the variables.