Glass Portion of Door

[Anonymous]

Hi gang,

Wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why the glass portion of the Australian Essential Libraries "Swinging Door" casts a shadow even though it's the same transparent glass material as the library parts own sidelights and transom window? Refer Image...

Thanks

[Barry Kelly]

Lloyd wrote:
Hi gang,

Wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why the glass portion of the Australian Essential Libraries "Swinging Door" casts a shadow even though it's the same transparent glass material as the library parts own sidelights and transom window? Refer Image...

Thanks

Just tried it myself with the "Essential library - styled door 3" as the door leaf and had no problems - doors were transparent.
What door panel were you using?

I can only get the doors to cast a solid shadow if I change the door infill mateial to be different from the glass material.
If they are the same glass material then all seems fine

Other than that the only thing I can think of would be to do with the SHADOW command in the scripts for the doors.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

I don't use this type of door (I use D&W Builder) but wondering if you have different materials for inside and outside of door panel?

Cheers

[Anonymous]

The door panel is "Styled Door 3", Checked the script, SHADOW is OFF for "Gls_Mat" why the *@#$ would that be? Thanks for the heads up on that Barry.

And now I have to winge about the fact that you can't save changes to a library part which is loaded through an archived project (which the australian essential library is) so you have to save it as something else, and change all instances of that part to the new one...

Unless there are other ways of modifying a library part loaded from an archive project....

[Anonymous]

...And cause I'm using 8.1 when I change the Swinging Door to the modified "Swinging Door B" which I just saved.... none of the parameters are transfered...

[Barry Kelly]

Lloyd wrote:
Unless there are other ways of modifying a library part loaded from an archive project....

The only way I now is to open the archive library and expand the library to disk.
Modify the part and then re-archive ensuring that you archive all library parts.

I don't use an archived library at all.
I have a fully expanded library which is therefore editable when ever I want.
Takes a little longer to load when opening a plan but I can live with that.
Still only 20 seconds max if kept on your local hard drive.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Lloyd wrote:
Wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why the glass portion of the Australian Essential Libraries "Swinging Door" casts a shadow even though it's the same transparent glass material as the library parts own sidelights and transom window?

Seems that the body -1 statement is missing before the glass panel definition

Refer to this link for explanations. (Chapter 4.3 3D script > Modelling transparent bodies)
http://download.graphisoft.com/ftp/techsupport/documentation/developer_docs/BasicLibraryDoc/LibDevGu...