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Molinda Prey
Good time of the day, gentlemen
There are some windows and doors in the complex profile wall. The wall cosists of the masonry blocks core and stucco and the brickwork tiles:
The objective is to make the two different types of finish from the wall wrap the side faces of the windows and doors, as shown on the following picture:
How may this objective be achieved?
Thank you very much!
The profile was created as a number of separate elements, with different functions. Thus, what is supposed to be a finish is listed as a finish, and what is supposed to be the core is listed as a core. Hereby I attach the file with the complex profile of the wall in question. You may open it via options/attributes/attribute manager/import.
As to the window, I tried all the options, but non of them yielded the desired effect. I ticked the "show in 3d" in all the cases:
Right, what you need to do is split the core fill you have created at the same level vertically as the finish material and assign the same building material to that section of core as the finished face.
You then need to open the wall properties dialogue and turn off the wall edge surface override.
I didn't import your surfaces or fill patterns so they are appearing solid black on my screenshots where the surfaces and fills didn't exist but hopefully that will fix your issue. you may have to recreate your modifiers once you split the core.
The ends of the wall will show the correct materials based on the complex profile, so turning off the end overrides should show the complex profile as you describe.
The problem the original poster has is that the reveals of windows only have one material.
The default windows do not have any control of this.
I don't think you can even override the reveal material, let alone split it.
I do not use the Graphisoft windows so I am unsure of this.
But if it is possible with the default windows, please let us know.
It is possible to do though if they would script an option to split the reveal and then use 2 WALLNICHEs in the script for which you can control the materials.
I have done this in my windows, so it can be done.
But it is not something you could add to a Graphisoft window yourself (not easily anyway).
It really needs to be added to the objects by Graphisoft themselves.
I assume this is what @Isaac Newton is wanting to show.
The window on the left is a Graphisoft window.
The one on the right is my window.
The end of the wall is controlled by the composite.
My object is not perfect as it doesn't automatically choose the materials nor the height of the break.
It might be possible, I just haven't investigated it.
If anyone wants the code for the WALLNICHEs, it is simply something like this.
There is a WALLNICHE to each side of the frame (inside and outside).
The outside one has the ability to be split into 2 (upper and lower) and each can have a different side material.
extend_niche = 0.100
m1=1 !!the polygon will create a visible edge upon entry into the body being cut
m2=1 !!depth - the lengthwise edge of the cutting form will be visible
m3=1 !!the polygon will create a visible edge upon exiting the body being cut
m4=1 !!outside - the bottom edge of the cutting form will be visible
m5=1 !!inside - the top edge of the cutting form will be visible
m7=0 !!controls the viewpoint dependent visibility of the lengthwise edge
PEN pen_lin_int
MATERIAL WALL_MAT_A
WALLNICHE 6, 1, 1*0 + 2*0 + 8*0 + 16*1 + 32*0 + 64*0 + 128*0,
0, 0, -1, 0,
-(a*0.5),0,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,
(a*0.5),0,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,
(a*0.5),b),1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,
(a*0.5),b,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,
(-a*0.5),b,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,
(-a*0.5),b,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7
PEN pen_lin
if split_mat_swch = 0 then
MATERIAL WALL_MAT_B
WALLNICHE 6, 1, 1*0 + 2*0 + 8*0 + 16*1 + 32*0 + 64*0 + 128*0,
0, 0, 1, 0,
!0, 0, 1, C_-K_+extend_niche,
-(a*0.5),0,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,
(a*0.5),0,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,
(a*0.5),b,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,
(a*0.5),b,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,
(-a*0.5),b,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,
(-a*0.5),b,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7
else
!Stretchy split material height
HOTSPOT -(a*0.5), 0, 0, 101+HSID_add*(10^macro_level), split_mat_hgt, 1+128 !base
HOTSPOT -(a*0.5), 0-0.0001, 0, 102+HSID_add*(10^macro_level), split_mat_hgt, 3 !reference
HOTSPOT -(a*0.5), 0+split_mat_hgt, 0, 103+HSID_add*(10^macro_level), split_mat_hgt, 2 !moveable
!Stretchy split material height
HOTSPOT (a*0.5), 0, 0, 104+HSID_add*(10^macro_level), split_mat_hgt, 1+128 !base
HOTSPOT (a*0.5), 0-0.0001, 0, 105+HSID_add*(10^macro_level), split_mat_hgt, 3 !reference
HOTSPOT (a*0.5), 0+split_mat_hgt, 0, 106+HSID_add*(10^macro_level), split_mat_hgt, 2 !moveable
if split_mat_hgt > 0 then
WALLNICHE 4, 1, 1*0 + 2*0 + 8*0 + 16*1 + 32*0 + 64*0 + 128*0 + 256*1,
0, 0, 1, 0,
-(a*0.5),0,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,lower_reveal_mat,
(a*0.5),0,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,lower_reveal_mat,
(a*0.5),split_mat_hgt,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,lower_reveal_mat,
(-a*0.5),split_mat_hgt,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,lower_reveal_mat
endif
if split_mat_hgt < b then
WALLNICHE 6, 1, 1*0 + 2*0 + 8*0 + 16*1 + 32*0 + 64*0 + 128*0 + 256*1,
0, 0, 1, 0,
-(a*0.5),split_mat_hgt,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,upper_reveal_mat,
(a*0.5),split_mat_hgt,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,upper_reveal_mat,
(a*0.5),b,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,upper_reveal_mat,
(a*0.5),b,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,upper_reveal_mat,
(-a*0.5),b,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,upper_reveal_mat,
(-a*0.5),b,1*m1 + 2*m2 + 4*m3 + 8*m4 + 16*m5 + 64*m7,upper_reveal_mat
endif
endif
Barry.
I fake this with a column on either side with the same building material. It will clean up automatically with the wall. If you set a custom origin for your textures, you do need to set the same origin for the columns though.
Is this ideal? No. But fixing every single door and window object in your library is going to be a huge chore and after the next library update, you're back to square one... either you use the new library (and fix it) or stick with outdated library.
In these screenshots if you look carefully you can see that the top of the door reveal / recess thingy is still showing the grey bricks. It didn't bother me enough in the artist impressions to fix that one with a beam or something. (it is almost nearly fully obscured by a steel lintel)
