topic Re: GDL object assistance in Visualization

GDL object assistance

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:58:02 GMT

Hello, I'm having trouble locating a perforated steel panel/sheet GDL object. I've resorted to importing a texture and throwing a translucence characteristic to it in order to mimic a perforated panel. Any other suggestions on either creating a panel or a place to DL one. Thanks.

Re: GDL object assistance

Dwight — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:42:46 GMT

See:

perforation for the nation

Re: GDL object assistance

Dwight — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:21:50 GMT

i also note a texture image in the Archicad 11 library "Metal perforated Alpha.png"

This implies that the file contains specific transparency qualities but it does not since it is saved incorrectly in the library.

PNG files support transparency masking without alpha channel since they can be saved as three channel files with transparent areas - like perfs.

Try using the attached file as your texture in the internal engine material dialog and checking transparency under alpha channel effects.