A [Tip/Reminder] for Piranesi cutouts (and textures):
I just got my full copy of Piranesi 3 and am starting to play.
The ArchiCAD 20th Anniversary CD contains a folder called 'Building Textures'. In that, there is one called 'Objects TIF' which contains 440 masked images of plants, appliances, curtains, rugs, etc. All of these work perfectly as Piranesi cutouts! (Pick and choose - some do not have a high enough resolution for some uses.) A huge resource that I never really took advantage of with ArchiCAD itself.
The Objects folder also contains a folder of mouldings (along with 1-off fireplace surrounds, etc that work as cutouts). It is so easy to use the images of baroque plaster mouldings in Piranesi. Rather than cutouts, use these as brush textures with a horizontal (x) repeat, and with tangent mode, paint the mouldings wherever you want them. What visual freedom compared with having to build such a thing in ArchiCAD.
It also contains a "Textures JPG" folder with 1,699 texture files, which I have used frequently with ArchiCAD ... but which will also of course be useful with Piranesi.
Delighted and having fun,
Karl
PS Pretty cool that Informatix allowed for drag-and-drop of images from Explorer into the Montage window ... with thumbnails in Explorer, you can quickly drag an alternate image in, press Ctrl-R and see the results.
I just got my full copy of Piranesi 3 and am starting to play.
The ArchiCAD 20th Anniversary CD contains a folder called 'Building Textures'. In that, there is one called 'Objects TIF' which contains 440 masked images of plants, appliances, curtains, rugs, etc. All of these work perfectly as Piranesi cutouts! (Pick and choose - some do not have a high enough resolution for some uses.) A huge resource that I never really took advantage of with ArchiCAD itself.
The Objects folder also contains a folder of mouldings (along with 1-off fireplace surrounds, etc that work as cutouts). It is so easy to use the images of baroque plaster mouldings in Piranesi. Rather than cutouts, use these as brush textures with a horizontal (x) repeat, and with tangent mode, paint the mouldings wherever you want them. What visual freedom compared with having to build such a thing in ArchiCAD.
It also contains a "Textures JPG" folder with 1,699 texture files, which I have used frequently with ArchiCAD ... but which will also of course be useful with Piranesi.
Delighted and having fun,
Karl
PS Pretty cool that Informatix allowed for drag-and-drop of images from Explorer into the Montage window ... with thumbnails in Explorer, you can quickly drag an alternate image in, press Ctrl-R and see the results.
