Curved texture

[Anonymous]

Hello, does anybody know how to aplicate not-curved texture to the circle desk, please? I have a wooden terrace which has shape of circle and I would like to use circle material, material which can copy the shape of construction. I hope I have described my problem undertandly, thank for your help, Lukáš.

[Dwight]

Circle desk?

Please post an image.

[Karl Ottenstein]

ArchiCAD materials simply tile a flat surface such as your deck, even if your deck is in the shape of a circle.

If you need a circular pattern, you will have to create it in Photoshop (etc) at a size that will map to cover your surface. (Alternatively, you can create a material that covers one quadrant of your circle and use the tiling/mirror method shown in the attached screenshot. This is herringbone brick from the lib, but you can see that if the image was of arcs for one quadrant of a circle, the result would be a complete circle. Personally, I'd just do the entire texture as a 1-to-1 image map in Photoshop to be sure there were no repeats.)

If I understand what you are asking...

Karl

[Anonymous]

I had to create a similar sort of thing once when trying to render curved plywood. I ended up modelling the plywood as if I was really making plywood: creating a series of 3mm slabs in a curve, and made each slab out of a different material from it's neighbour.

So in your case you could make each circle as a seperate object and make an ever so slightly different material for each circle.

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much, that´s good idea.