wood door/material HELP!

[Anonymous]

Hi All,


I have modeled a wood door with slab tool and created 2 materials (vertical & horizontal wood texture) and applied to slabs. when I render the slabs before saving them as a door it gives me the right texture direction that I want, but after saving the door to the library the texture turned to be just in one direction!!

so how to handle that and is there any other way to create wood door with horizontal & vertical panels. see attached images.



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[Dwight]

Once you make a door, the unit - the object - can only have one origin and therefore one texture direction.

You are correct to isolate each slab component and by adding GDL COOR statements, each element mapping direction can be individually controlled.

This is too much work for a newbie.

Instead, i suggest that you make a new material with all of the details you need that is exactly one door panel sized, apply it to your door and use the 3D material alignment tool to set it up to tile exactly.

[Dwight]

Flaw in the advice:

Make the texture the height of the door and somewhat wider to ensure overlap.

[Anonymous]

Dwight wrote:
Flaw in the advice:

Make the texture the height of the door and somewhat wider to ensure overlap.

Thanks Dwight for your help, I will give it a try..

I am trying to learn and work in Archicad using my background in Nemetscheck Allplan which I did 7 years ago in Germany, but I did not continue using it!. Now I am really interested in Archicad.

By the way; I purchased your book last week, it has great intensive information that helps me in understanding the rendering method of Archicad...but ya I need a lot of time to go thru all the chapters and keep practicing!