Working with GDL objects and materials/textures/colors

[Anonymous]

Hi everybody,

As a complete newbie to both ArchiCAD and GDL, I am trying to figure how materials work.

I specifically need to create my own materials and/or colors for my objects, and would like it to be part of the object, not the archicad material lib. For now I only need to assign colors, but it is possible that I need to assign textures later on.

A RTFM-link would be good, since I need some basic explanation to how all of this works.

Besides that, I'd like links for other resources on GDL - maybe You know of some reference guide or the likes, that I don't...

[Frank Beister]

Do you speak a bit the language of your neighbours? See DEFINE_MATERIAL our switch to pure German on the page.

[Anonymous]

Well, I can read and understand the most of it, so thanks! Seems like a really nice reference guide 🙂
Seems like DEFINE_MATERIAL is just the thing I need 🙂

But if there's an english reference guide out there, I'd like to know 😉

- Jeppe

[Dwight]

That would be the one coming with the USA version, perhaps??

[Anonymous]

jeppe.liisberg wrote:
But if there's an english reference guide out there, I'd like to know 😉

I assume you've looked under the help menu for the GDL Reference Guide. I know it's a bit cryptic but it is (pretty much) all there and (mostly) accurate.

[Anonymous]

Well... I have now! (Dwight also sent me a copy) 🙂

I didn't take a proper look at it yet, but it seems reasonably useful.

Thanks,
- Jeppe