topic Re: GDL: Shadows on/off in Libraries & objects

GDL: Shadows on/off

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:25:15 GMT

- Have any one tried to make an shadows on/off parameter with complex objects eg. real trees in 3D?
We are helping an ArchiCAD-user with a project where it is nearly impossible to make it run in 3D - there is too many trees...

Please help me with a script where the shadows can be turned off - I remember having seen the script in the Cookbook 3 but cannot find it again.

Re: GDL: Shadows on/off

Dwight — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:50:00 GMT

Inferred from page 1.38 of the GDL Cookbook:

SHADOW OFF

issued before routine.

New powerful GDL commands for the real world:

DESIGN COMMISSION ON.

HEARTACHE OFF.

If only that simple.

Re: GDL: Shadows on/off

Djordje — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:10:38 GMT

Dwight wrote:
New powerful GDL commands for the real world:

DESIGN COMMISSION ON.

HEARTACHE OFF.

If only that simple.

PAYMENT TRANSFERRED.

I wish ...

Re: GDL: Shadows on/off

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 22:10:59 GMT

Djordje wrote:
PAYMENT TRANSFERRED.

I wish ...

First before any other !!!

Re: GDL: Shadows on/off

david nicholson-cole — Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:36:57 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Inferred from page 1.38 of the GDL Cookbook:
SHADOW OFF
issued before routine.

New powerful GDL commands for the real world:
DESIGN COMMISSION ON.
HEARTACHE OFF.
If only that simple.

Its always been annoying that there hasnt been an hybrid syntax (like there are with certain other commands such as FRAGMENT) whereby you could write SHADOW 1 or SHADOW 0 as alternatives to SHADOW ON and SHADOW OFF. If you are using a 'level of detail' flag to turn shadows on and off, you need an IF statement every time to get shadow to work.