Wood Deck MATERIAL

[Anonymous]

Any one knows how to manipulate the size of the boards of the DECK MATERIAL?
The material is very neet, with a simple slab ArchiCAD represents the slab as 3D boards in Open GL or Internal Engine, the problem is that the boards are like 12" wide and I need to make them 5".

[Erika Epstein]

Options>Element Attributes> Materials.

If you option/Alt + click on the slab with the material the Material Attribute window will default to this material. Make a copy of the material and in the copy, named Deck material 5" or sim adjust the width the material repeat.

[Anonymous]

Hi Erika thank you. Have you used this material in paticular?(Wd-deck)
The material has some type pf GDL function in, that makes a continuoius slab show as separated boards when in 3D. I'd like to be able to configure the size of this boards. Thank you and regars,
F.S.

[Erika Epstein]

I'm not seeing the separate board effect in 3D.
Where did you get the material ?
What version of AC are you using?
Does it come from an Add-on?

[Anonymous]

Hi Erika,
This is in AC12, I do't know where this material came from because I tried to start a new file from AC12 Template and the available list of materials is way smaller (and Wd-Deck is not there).
And the weirdest thing is that after trying a lot of different things yesterday to try to manipulate de size of the boards the 3D function I was talking about is gone. I don't know what happened to the material, I've been trying unsuccessfully to bring the material to it original settings...

Thank you any way for your attention...

f.s.

[Dwight]

Could you please open that file and post screenshots of the magical material's dialog?

[Anonymous]

Some how the material lost the 3D capabilities?!... I don't know what I did, I spent like 1 1/2 hour trying to revert the material to it original settings but it will not work again as it was working yesterday morning...

[Dwight]

I sympathize with your dismay.

But if you post screenshots of the dialog, I can tell if it is a bump map illusion or not.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately I haven't saved any screen shot when it was working, but I am sure it wasn't a bump map because this would happen not only in the rendering window but also in the 3D window (in internal & in open GL engines)
The slab would be shown as several separate boards in the 3D window.

[Erika Epstein]

don 't know if this is of help. but these are the settings for the Wd-Deck material I have, it's in a file from someone else and I don't know where he got it.