topic Re: Twig Railing in Libraries & objects

Twig Railing

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:04:04 GMT

Anyone seen this for AC?

Anyone have any good ideas on how to make some in GDL?

Re: Twig Railing

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:17:38 GMT

sirduncan wrote:
Anyone seen this for AC?

No, and it seems unlikely.

Anyone have any good ideas on how to make some in GDL?

Complex organic shapes are among the most difficult to model convincingly; especially when they are to be selected and placed for functional and aesthetic value. Stone coursing poses a similar problem.

The only relatively easy thing I can think of (depending on the design of the rails) would be to model a collection of twigs which could be selected at random by the railing object. If the twigs vary only slightly from each other it might work to repeat one with a small random variation.

Re: Twig Railing

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:18:13 GMT

Anything like this:

http://www.logstairways.com/images/exteriortwig.jpg

I think ADT has something like what I am looking for. Can I 'convert' that to AC?

Re: Twig Railing

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:34:56 GMT

sirduncan wrote:
Anything like this:

http://www.logstairways.com/images/exteriortwig.jpg

I can't access the image. Seems to be a permissions thing.

I think ADT has something like what I am looking for. Can I 'convert' that to AC?

It will probably be more trouble than it's worth unless you can use ADT to make a set of parts to be assembled in AC. Otherwise you would probably have to create each instance in ADT, save in DWG (or 3DS if possible) and manually convert them to ArchiCAD library parts (there is no automatic way to do this AFAIK).

Re: Twig Railing

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:25:48 GMT

Well here is an attempt by me. It needs lots of work, but it just might work after a few overhauls.

Its a killer on rendering though. I set it at only 16 resol - maybe I should go with only 8.?

Re: Twig Railing

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:32:43 GMT

Matthew wrote:
I can't access the image. Seems to be a permissions thing.

Sorry - don't know what happened there.

Re: Twig Railing

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:26:31 GMT

sirduncan wrote:
Well here is an attempt by me. It needs lots of work, but it just might work after a few overhauls.

Its a killer on rendering though. I set it at only 16 resol - maybe I should go with only 8.?

Looks good for a start. You did that in GDL?

Re: Twig Railing

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:57:58 GMT

Matthew wrote:
You did that in GDL?

Oh no - I'm finding other ways around coding it all by hand.