3D board & batten

[Anonymous]

What is the best way to produce an material that can display in 3D (Internal & OpenGL) a realistic board & batten siding.

[Anonymous]

I'm sure that someone will have a better method, but I just experimented in using the wall framing accessories in a zero thickness glass wall placed 1/16" in front of the main wall. I had to use a zero thickness wall, as I could not force the framing to appear outside the main wall. Be sure that your glass is set to 100% transparent and transparency is set to be on in the 3D window. You can set the size and spacing of the battens with the wall accessories.

[Steve Jepson]

Jay wrote:
What is the best way to produce an material that can display in 3D (Internal & OpenGL) a realistic board & batten siding.

I just use a wall 1.5" wide and .75" thick and trim to roof. If looks fine in 3D.

[Anonymous]

Steve wrote:

Jay wrote:
What is the best way to produce an material that can display in 3D (Internal & OpenGL) a realistic board & batten siding.

I just use a wall 1.5" wide and .75" thick and trim to roof. If looks fine in 3D.

Steve,
Very nice "sketch" effect! I do something similar. I use an object that repeats a vertical member at given spacing, place it next to the wall and trim it to the roofs. I think I'm going to add "cutplanes" to the object so I don't have to trim it to the roofs...sometimes I need to cut the B&B's below a sub rake trim and the bottom of the roof thickness doesn't terminate at that point.

Again, very nice sketch - tell us how you are achieving your nicely trimmed out rakes and eave overhangs.

thanks,
Dan K

[Stephen Dolbee]

Steve,

How did you accomplish the fascia/eave detail?

[Link]

Looks just like the Eave Designer object available from objectsonline.com

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

What is the best way to produce an material that can display in 3D (Internal & OpenGL) a realistic board & batten siding.

Others have sugested means of modeling the board and batten. It sounds like you are looking to apply a material to the exterior wall that will render correctly in the 3d window using open GL. A method I have used is to model some board and batten in Archicad and view in the 3D window. Save the 3D view as an image file and edit in photoshop color, brightness etc. Others are much more sophisticated in this so my methods are quite primitive. You might also search for textures that have already been made. There are a lot of free ones on the web and I am sure objects online will have something to offer.

[Anonymous]

if you're doing this as a material then it's worth adding an alpha layer (basically black and white vertical stripes) to a (tiff) image to be used as a bump map in the texture of the material

bill

[Anonymous]

Millard thank you for the response. Your solution seems the most automated. After all this is the year 2005, lets use these computer processors to their potential. I have used the Wall accessory tool before for a shingle Wainscoting. I may give this a try.


Steve, yes nice work. Are you breaking the Battens at the windows and vents with SEO.
Your solution is more for the Finished product, seems time consuming. I would like a solution that I could use during early Design also to give a more realistic representation to the client for possible options.
If your fascia/eave detail answer is fairly extensive maybe you could start another thread and post the link here.


Dan, Is this an object that you created. Again it sounds like it is for use towards the end of Design.


Mike, Finding a Texture (for OpenGL and I guess LightWorks) would be nice, but most searches leave my head spinning. Like this Post: http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=10691&highlight=textures#10691 Too many options. Also not a PhotoShop expert or even owner.


Bill, Yes with the Internal 3D engine I believe that I will need a material (I already have a Fill pattern that works for non-random Board & Batten). Can you direct me to somewhere in the ArchiCAD manuals as to the steps to creating this image. Board & Battens Siding is a vary common application. I am surprised that it is not more standard to the AC software.

[Steve Jepson]

Jay wrote:
Steve, yes nice work. Are you breaking the Battens at the windows and vents with SEO.
Your solution is more for the Finished product, seems time consuming. I would like a solution that I could use during early Design also to give a more realistic representation to the client for possible options.
If your fascia/eave detail answer is fairly extensive maybe you could start another thread and post the link here.

That was the prelim. In the rendering, I made the batts all one object. In elevation view I used the slab tool to make the batts 3/4" thick, view from the top and save as an object. The fascia, gutter, and soffit were made with the profiler tool. I just used the lines from my typical wall detail. The trim and fascia at the gable end are rafters. It takes very little time at all to model the trim. The custom windows were made by using the 2D drawing I got from the Milgard web site for that exact window. Same technique. Slab tool-Magic Wand, view from top and save as object.
Same with the louver. I think it was a Fypon 2D drawing made into 3d with a few clicks. This may sound complicated to some but it is actually very fast because there is very little drawing to do. I modeled all of the trim on this house, the louver, custom window, fascia/gutter/soffit etc... in about 20 min.
You may have spent more time than that looking for a good texture and when you find it you will spend more time tweaking it to the scale you need. You could put the batts on a different layer and trun it on and off to show different siding options. I even model my lap siding when I need it for a detailed rendering. I would post the rendering but its 182 MB and looks terrible when I resize it to be shown on this forum.