Material // Fill Direction in section/elevation

[Anonymous]

I've programmed a Door for a shower wall and the Material Fill is mirrored if the Door is mirrored.
It looks very jarring compared to the Glas wall next to it.

Is it somehow possible to define the direction of the fill based on the Global direction as supposed to the orientation of the Object?

[Lingwisyer]

There is a GDL command that queries whether a door or window is mirrored or not. Using that return as a boolean, you could insert a section to change to texture orientation.

Page 578 in the GDL Reference Guide?



Ling.

[Barry Kelly · Accepted solution]

Arnaut2604 wrote:
I've programmed a Door for a shower wall and the Material Fill is mirrored if the Door is mirrored.
It looks very jarring compared to the Glas wall next to it.

Is it somehow possible to define the direction of the fill based on the Global direction as supposed to the orientation of the Object?

Look into the use of VERT and COOR to redefine the material orientation.
You will need to trap it if the object is mirrored.

So something like ...

body -1
MATERIAL ....
PRISM_ .... (or what ever it is you use to model the door panel)

if SYMB_MIRRORED = 1 then
    VERT 0,0,0 !Origin
    VERT -1,0,0 !X direction
    VERT 0,1,0 !Y direction
    VERT 0,0,1 !Z direction
    COOR 2+256,1,2,3,4
    body -1
endif

I think the '-1' for the X direction will mirror the material.
I am not able to check it at the moment, but I am pretty sure it is something like that.


Barry.

[Anonymous]

Perfect! Worked a charm!
Thanks so much!

I spent hours trying and couldn't get it to work

[Barry Kelly]

Arnaut2604 wrote:
Perfect! Worked a charm!
Thanks so much!

I spent hours trying and couldn't get it to work

Awesome.

Barry.