topic Re: Master GDL Script - Define Material in Libraries & objects

Master GDL Script - Define Material

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:32:05 GMT

I'm trying to find some answers about Define Material in Master GDL Script.

I want to have a Master GDL Script that will add materials to the library when loaded with the models in the container, the user will not have to do anything but load the library to the project. I've found some information about defining the materials by my own by coding it but there must be a more easy way to do it!?

What i'm looking for is a way to export my material to a code that i can add in my Master script as a code line.

Example of the code

DEFINE TEXTURE "Texture104" "hag_space", 0.07, 0.07, 513, 90

DEFINE MATERIAL "HAG Space" 20,
0.858824, 0.858824, 0.858824,
0.9, 0.88, 1, 0.5, 1.8, 0,
1, 1, 1,
0, 0, 0,
0, 0, -1,
IND(TEXTURE, "Texture104")

// Johnzon

Re: Master GDL Script - Define Material

Jochen Suehlo — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:20:32 GMT

Use the Special Menu from ArchiCAD, with which you can export Master.gdl files from 3D windows which contain all the materials you have defined in ArchiCAD (and can be found in the attributes).

See: http://www.archicadwiki.com/Special%20Menu

Re: Master GDL Script - Define Material

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:20:02 GMT

Than You Joachim, just what I was looking for.

Re: Master GDL Script - Define Material

tsturm — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:19:30 GMT

Joachim wrote:
Use the Special Menu from ArchiCAD, with which you can export Master.gdl files from 3D windows which contain all the materials you have defined in ArchiCAD (and can be found in the attributes).

See: http://www.archicadwiki.com/Special%20Menu

this link not longer works to the Special Menu. Please, can you update it?

Re: Master GDL Script - Define Material

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:30:28 GMT

Looks like there is no such page in ArchiCADWiki anymore.

Re: Master GDL Script - Define Material

Jochen Suehlo — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:24:27 GMT

The last source about the special menu, I found, is here:

www.graphisoft.com/ftp/techsupport/documentation/developer_docs/BasicLibraryDoc/15/LibDevGuide/TechnicalStandards.html

Re: Master GDL Script - Define Material

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:30:55 GMT

Or even more precisely:

http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/techsupport/documentation/developer_docs/BasicLibraryDoc/15/LibDevGuide/TechnicalStandards.html#title71

That's a good source, it tells you how to enable the Special menu commands on both platforms.

Re: Master GDL Script - Define Material

tsturm — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:40:26 GMT

I found that resource this morning. I have since downloaded the Pref Setter application. I have gone into the preference file. I have found the Special Menu. I have toggled it from false to true. I have saved the changed file. Yet I do not get the Special Menu among the menus when I start up AC. I then go the Work Enviroment to add the menu. It is not there among the other menus. I have trashed the previous plist file and done it all again. Still no Special Menu at the top. I think some how, today will just be one of those days.

Re: Master GDL Script - Define Material

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:42:18 GMT

Hello,

Activating the Special menu in the preferences does not create
a menu, it just makes the special menu commands visible in the
work environment settings.

In the work environment settings browse the command list by theme - the special menu commands should be there in a folder named '60 Special'.

From there you can add them to a new or an existing menu as you wish.

Hope this helps.

Re: Master GDL Script - Define Material

tsturm — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:12:26 GMT

Thank you Juda, I was missing the location of the theme for the special menu. I was looking in the list of menus and commands. Off to update several library sets, now that I can place the whole lot of them on the screen at once.

Cheers

Re: Master GDL Script - Define Material

kevin b — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:28:21 GMT

Has anyone been able to activate the Special Menu in 16? Turned it on in the.plist file but it still does not show up in the WE to turn it on. All Menus in Alphabetical Order goes from Settings to Special Snap Options.

Re: Master GDL Script - Define Material

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:59:40 GMT

Hello,

I have it in 16, listing commands by theme might work.