topic Re: People and Trees for AC 10 in Libraries & objects

People and Trees for AC 10

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:16:39 GMT

There are people and trees as bitmap-pictures for 3D renderings.
Is there any possibility to put some more pictures in these people bitmap from myself?

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:30:55 GMT

Archi wrote:
Is there any possibility to put some more pictures in these people bitmap from myself?

Hi Archi User 77,

Do you mean change the picture in the object to another one?

Could you be more specific?

Cheers,

Braza

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:35:36 GMT

In AC10 you can use own pictures from outside.
But how can I put this picture?
What I have shown are the existing original bitmap picture.

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Dwight — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:22:06 GMT

The Object "People Bitmap 10" found in the USA version has a provision for CUSTOM images.

You'll need something like Photoshop to mask your image - study the other images to see how the alpha channel masks around the figure.

Once the image is prepared, it must be saved in a folder within the library AND loaded into the library.

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:35:34 GMT

Hello Dwight,
I'll try it.

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:46:29 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Once the image is prepared, it must be saved in a folder within the library AND loaded into the library.

I can not load... How can I load?

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Dwight — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:58:57 GMT

Any file in a folder can be loaded into the library - Check your Library Manager dialog box.

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:10:16 GMT

To load is no problem.
But how can I pick the loaded picture into People Bitmap 10 as Custm images?

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Dwight — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:16:17 GMT

write the file name in the space that appears when you pick CUSTOM

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:02:56 GMT

Thanks Dwight
It works.....Why it works I dont know, but it works...
tif files are also ok.

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Dwight — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:16:31 GMT

Look, it is easy enough to see how they made a provision to call any image file in the library.
It is not magic, just simple GDL coding.

Understanding a computer, or an automatic transmission or where babies come from, on the other hands, are hard.

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:34:35 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Understanding a computer, or an automatic transmission or where babies come from, on the other hands, are hard.

Right.
If something mentioned in AC, it must be easy but must be explained enough.....This is policy of GS. Easy to learn

Thanks

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Dwight — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:47:40 GMT

Many ArchiCAD users are angered by the fact they also need a photo editing program and operating skills to make material textures and many other visual tricks, including the masking of figures.

And so it goes.

Re: People and Trees for AC 10

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:03:56 GMT

In my opinion
LW in AC10 is now very developed also as rendering power (shadow function and other options in section and elevation and so on...).
Trees are also very developed.
Some nice picture for people muste be exchanged.
Without any other Rendering programm I can be used to but,
at least every office must have Photoshop.
With Photoshop and old Artl.texture we can make Alpha-channel and save as TIF.