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Curved Billboard?

Anonymous
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I intend to cover the facade of my structure with vines. This facade is curved. Finding or creating a 3d model is very difficult at this point therefore i opted to use a vine png. With this png I intend to use the billboards feature to place them into archicad. Is it possible to curve the billboards to achieve the desired look. Any alternative would be welcomed. Thanks.
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Erwin Edel
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Use a curved wall, object or morph and set it up with a new surface material with the texture applied to it. Allign the texture so it fits nicely.
Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
www.leloup.nl

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Anonymous
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Thanks
Anonymous
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The standard Archicad Hedge object has a "bended" setting (I think that means "curved"). This would create lots of polygons though.
Anonymous
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...And the Hedge #1591 object from Cadimage's objects (not sure if its free to download or for Select members only) can be curved in plan AND along its length vertically.
Anonymous
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Thanks @s2art. If I'd like to have a vine with flowers all id have to do is change the hedge's surface to one with flowers?
Anonymous
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Both of these hedge objects are made up of individual leaves. If you made the leaf diameter quite large and used a surface material with a leafy image with flowers, and transparency where there is no leaf, you could get good results with not too many polygons