NEED HELP WITH MATERIALS!

[Anonymous]

Hi I am a student and very new to Archicad.
I am having trouble with materials:
1. I want to use aluminium framed windows. I used the tilt and turn window frame which had the default setting as a timber frame-in the window selection settings under the model tab I unchecked the box "use object materials" and selected alumium instead but it then changes everything to alumium including the glass panels-how can I make the frame aluminium and keep the panels as glass?

2. I want to change the tone of the french brown roofing tiles but even when I change the colour and light settings dramatically, the texture of the tile seems to override the other settings and the colour remains pretty much the same-how do I keep the pattern/texture of the tile but change it to a grey hue instead of a red one?
Thanks, Brenda

[David Maudlin]

Brenda wrote:
1. I want to use aluminium framed windows. I used the tilt and turn window frame which had the default setting as a timber frame-in the window selection settings under the model tab I unchecked the box "use object materials" and selected alumium instead but it then changes everything to alumium including the glass panels-how can I make the frame aluminium and keep the panels as glass?

Brenda:

As you have discovered, if you uncheck the "use object materials" box, the entire object is then made one material, so this is not the solution. The window should have some parameters for setting the materials of the individual parts (glass,, sash, etc). If you tell the forum the name of the window you are using, someone will probably be able to tell you where these are in the window's dialog box.

You should add a Signature to your Profile (click the Profile button near the top of this page) with your ArchiCAD version and operating system (see mine for an example) for more accurate help in this forum.

David

[Dwight]

These problems are not surprising.

1: Windows:

You need to use the "use object materials" setting and go into the dialog to change the specific materials.



2: Roof Tiles - can't change color.

When you render, the surface is a picture - called a texture map. If you are rendering in LightWorks you tint the material in the dialog below. OR: You duplicate the material and change it in Photoshop.

[Dwight]

for the windo

[Karl Ottenstein]

[Brenda - I just merged your duplicated thread, to which David replied, with this one. Welcome, but please post only once in one forum, and do not use ALL CAPS. Thx.]

[Anonymous]

OR: You duplicate the material and change it in Photoshop.

How do you get them out of ArchiCAD to edit them in Photoshop?

[Dwight]

How to Bust a file out of Archicad Jail:

The image you want to fix is a file with a name just like any other that opens in Photoshop like any image does.

If you save the edited image in the same folder as the original, a RELOAD of the Archicad library then registers that file in the data base. Swap the files within the Archicad dialog and you have the new texture.

[Anonymous]

I've been all through my ArchiCAD folders. Where are these files located?

[Anonymous]

Nevermind. I found them.