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textures on windows / doors

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:00:28 GMT

Is it possible to have the texture map on windows and doors applied the "correct way" ie the transoms and mullions should have the texture running different directions (see attached pic showing texture the same way)

Hope this makes sense!

Re: textures on windows / doors

Djordje — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:48:21 GMT

Lennox wrote:
Is it possible to have the texture map on windows and doors applied the "correct way" ie the transoms and mullions should have the texture running different directions (see attached pic showing texture the same way)

Hope this makes sense!

Not at this point of time ...

Re: textures on windows / doors

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:04:25 GMT

Djordje wrote:
Lennox wrote:
Is it possible to have the texture map on windows and doors applied the "correct way" ie the transoms and mullions should have the texture running different directions (see attached pic showing texture the same way)

Hope this makes sense!
Not at this point of time ...

It actually may be possible. Some library parts are scripted to do this correctly (at least mine are). You may be able to find one that works. If you are a fairly proficient GDL user, you could make/modify your own.

Re: textures on windows / doors

Djordje — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:13:35 GMT

Addition: ... with out of the box parts.

Thanks for the correction, Matthew!

Re: textures on windows / doors

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:24:24 GMT

You can do it!!! With out GDL Knowledge.

1. Option > Attribute Settings > Materials..

2. Choose the material.

3. Type numeric for set degree. 90 is rotate the material in vertical direction.

a pice of cake

Re: textures on windows / doors

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:25:30 GMT

Re: textures on windows / doors

TomWaltz — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:30:44 GMT

except that does it EVERYWHERE, not on various parts of a single window or door frame.....

Re: textures on windows / doors

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:58:07 GMT

oH"" If you want change on various parts of a single window or door frame..... You can duplicate the material and create new several material for a single window or door frame.

Re: textures on windows / doors

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:05:46 GMT

New material

Re: textures on windows / doors

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:06:49 GMT

Frame material

Re: textures on windows / doors

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:12:47 GMT

Change to new material.

Re: textures on windows / doors

Aussie John — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:16:37 GMT

Suranart
I think the original posted was wishing for the individual parts of the door or frame to editable ie the jamb and transom to have grain direction differences

Re: textures on windows / doors

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:26:34 GMT

Maybe,This do not a perfect way. But ,I hope this some help .

Re: textures on windows / doors

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:43:26 GMT

Aussie John
If user can do GDL Script.
That probleam can treat by this way.

1.Creat new material for Frame.
2.Creat new material for leaf.

separate it!

Re: textures on windows / doors

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:53:05 GMT

If user can do not GDL Script. wrong wordily

sorry about my wordily. I fail Eng class.

Re: textures on windows / doors

David Collins — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:20:24 GMT

This a nasty one, alright.

To really begin to get a handle on wood grain materials you have to build all your wood objects stick by stick, just like the carpenter. A slab and a hole for a wood frame isn't going to work. Unfortunately, most of the standard library parts are built with the latter method, so all your doors and windows are better off in aluminum or plastic. You'll save almost as much time in rendering as you will in yearly maintenance.

If you create new wood objects with separate horizontal and vertical members, ArchiCad will try to orient the texture based on an invisible set of rules, which I've never completely understood, using the mysterious GDL VERT and COOR commands. Long wood planks will usually run the texture in the right direction. Textures on square shapes or complicated polygons are anybody's guess. Or you can get a beam with horizontal texture on the face and vertical on the sides. Clients love to point that out to you.

For real obsessive-compulsive fun, there's always the the Edit/ "Align 3d Texture," which get gets old fast for anything more complicated than a picture frame.

I finally created two sets of wood texture materials, one for vertical members and another for horizontals, which gives me at least the illusion of some control. Which one goes where is always a matter of trial and error. Lately I've noticed that a wood door I created will flip all its textures 90 degrees whenever it's opening angle exceeded 20 degrees.

Re: textures on windows / doors

Djordje — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:32:41 GMT

Add to all this corner and butt joints ...

Re: textures on windows / doors

Dwight — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:59:09 GMT

Just an idea:

But, further, if you look at REAL doors and window frames - or anything made of wood for that matter, the grain direction is hardly discernable at typical ArchiCAD rendering distances (across the room, say, at 1200 pixels in size.). Not important at all.

Instead of obsessing when using that stupid pine texture that comes from a gigantic tree in the Jolly Green Giant's forest, find a more subtle and ambiguous wood pattern - something without "direction." The quickest way to do this is to make the texture smaller in size and much wider than the usual proportion assigned in the material.

Then it won't seem so bad. Rendering AND maintenance. Haha, David. Good one!

Re: textures on windows / doors

Dwight — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:08:49 GMT

Invisible texture map direction rules:

ArchiCAD wants to map the length of a texture map to the length of an element.

In this example, a slab is made with "X" dominance and then "Y" dominance. The map direction changes.

You might have noticed this.

Likewise with objects made from separate parts - if you don't mess with the material direction with a global material assignment, they stay correct.

The reason, BTW, that holes-in-slabs-as-window-panes don't map properly (or, as we'd like) is because one element can only have one origin and therefore only one mapping direction.

Re: textures on windows / doors

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:35:08 GMT

thanks guys for all time and effort in replying.
Its what I thought, without GDL knowledge I am stuck.

I can feel a wish coming on..................!

To Graphisoft, I dont suppose you can sneek this into AC10 could you?