topic Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL in Visualization

Wood Deck MATERIAL

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:52:42 GMT

Any one knows how to manipulate the size of the boards of the DECK MATERIAL?
The material is very neet, with a simple slab ArchiCAD represents the slab as 3D boards in Open GL or Internal Engine, the problem is that the boards are like 12" wide and I need to make them 5".

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Erika Epstein — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:00:38 GMT

Options>Element Attributes> Materials.

If you option/Alt + click on the slab with the material the Material Attribute window will default to this material. Make a copy of the material and in the copy, named Deck material 5" or sim adjust the width the material repeat.

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:12:05 GMT

Hi Erika thank you. Have you used this material in paticular?(Wd-deck)
The material has some type pf GDL function in, that makes a continuoius slab show as separated boards when in 3D. I'd like to be able to configure the size of this boards. Thank you and regars,
F.S.

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Erika Epstein — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:25:53 GMT

I'm not seeing the separate board effect in 3D.
Where did you get the material ?
What version of AC are you using?
Does it come from an Add-on?

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:34:16 GMT

Hi Erika,
This is in AC12, I do't know where this material came from because I tried to start a new file from AC12 Template and the available list of materials is way smaller (and Wd-Deck is not there).
And the weirdest thing is that after trying a lot of different things yesterday to try to manipulate de size of the boards the 3D function I was talking about is gone. I don't know what happened to the material, I've been trying unsuccessfully to bring the material to it original settings...

Thank you any way for your attention...

f.s.

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Dwight — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:48:50 GMT

Could you please open that file and post screenshots of the magical material's dialog?

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:52:31 GMT

Some how the material lost the 3D capabilities?!... I don't know what I did, I spent like 1 1/2 hour trying to revert the material to it original settings but it will not work again as it was working yesterday morning...

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Dwight — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:58:49 GMT

I sympathize with your dismay.

But if you post screenshots of the dialog, I can tell if it is a bump map illusion or not.

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:05:57 GMT

Unfortunately I haven't saved any screen shot when it was working, but I am sure it wasn't a bump map because this would happen not only in the rendering window but also in the 3D window (in internal & in open GL engines)
The slab would be shown as several separate boards in the 3D window.

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Erika Epstein — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:18:22 GMT

don 't know if this is of help. but these are the settings for the Wd-Deck material I have, it's in a file from someone else and I don't know where he got it.

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Erika Epstein — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:19:00 GMT

and the LW tab

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:33:28 GMT

I tried but it stills not working. Most of the settings were the same but no 3D boards anymore... tks....

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Dwight — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:39:46 GMT

Just to clarify, a surface texture can only create the illusion of depth, no matter what the setting.

Not that the entire computer world isn't an illusion what with all of these great things we make 'sitting at typewriter and looking at telly.'

An illusion.

Re: Wood Deck MATERIAL

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:48:04 GMT

Are you sure it wasn't some kind of slab accessory (an add on) that physically created the boards. Maybe something by Cadimage or Cigraph perhaps?

If it was definitely 3d based, try turning on all the layers in the original file and see if it reappears again. Maybe you just turned it off by accident!