Applying a 'Logo Texture' to a round billboard.

[muzedesigns]

Hello Again..

I am trying to texture map a Logo/Crest/Image onto a round element..

Right now I trying to place it on a cylinder object which is rotated to look like and O Front on to the Elevation. But am not being very successful in my attempts as the texture seems to be obscuring despite being on the flat face of the cylinder..

I have created a new texture with the image and am then using the Offset Class to move it around with S and T Co-ordinates..

Is the a circular billboard that exists or a easy way to do this?

So I am trying to place a material to sit centre on a round flat vertical signage element.. which is then place flat on a wall..

Sorry if this is confusing!

[Karl Ottenstein]

junior wrote:
Or get your hands on one of the previous Artlantis (version 4._ something I believe) and have the best of both worlds....stills and fly-throughs
too bad we cant save to older Artlantis file formats....I'm sure there's a workaround though.

Respectfully, I disagree. Art*lantis 4.0 or 4.5 is significantly inferior to Artlantis Studio in more ways than can fill several pages....

And, the newest version of Studio will be better yet. Several of us here are involved in testing it, but cannot discuss the features until Abvent releases it:

http://www.abvent.com/support/forum/read.php?fid=atl_general_us&mes=8684

Various resellers are noting that the new version is a free upgrade to those who get the current version now:
http://www.cadgarage.com/modren.html

Anyway...in any of the versions, you can simply drag and drop the logo onto the building, drag it to the desired location, and dynamically resize it/etc, all visually.

Cheers,
Karl

[Anonymous]

Fair enough Karl, I'm sure the new Artlantis has improved vastly.

Karl wrote:
Anyway...in any of the versions, you can simply drag and drop the logo onto the building, drag it to the desired location, and dynamically resize it/etc, all visually.

Sounds like you can just slap any image on a 3d surface?!...automatically detecting a wall and what not. (correct me if I interpreted it wrong)....interesting. Time to put my 4.x on the shelf and pay the Artlantis site a little visit.

Thanks for the heads up on the upgrade.

[Karl Ottenstein]

junior wrote:
Sounds like you can just slap any image on a 3d surface?!...automatically detecting a wall and what not. (correct me if I interpreted it wrong)....interesting.

Perhaps not just any image - but jpeg, gif, png, etc can just drag and drop from Explorer or Finder onto the scene. Such images can also be added to the media library. Yes, the surface is recognized and the image is applied to it. Then, visually or numerically, size, rotate, adjust transparency, etc. and move around by pressing the M key while dragging.

(Piranesi can do a very similar thing, but of course it is just a 3D-aware paint program, not a rendering package, the topic of this thread.)

Cheers,
Karl

[Djordje]

junior wrote:
Fair enough Karl, I'm sure the new Artlantis has improved vastly.

Karl wrote:
Anyway...in any of the versions, you can simply drag and drop the logo onto the building, drag it to the desired location, and dynamically resize it/etc, all visually.

Sounds like you can just slap any image on a 3d surface?!...automatically detecting a wall and what not. (correct me if I interpreted it wrong)....interesting. Time to put my 4.x on the shelf and pay the Artlantis site a little visit.

Thanks for the heads up on the upgrade.

You could do that in 4.5 ... and older 😉 too.

Yep, the new one is - personal opinion - by far the most bang for the bucks. And I am talking Studio any time I mention Artlantis, as I see no point in buying just the R.

Update from 4.x period is gone, I think? You will have to buy a new license, check with your reseller.