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Rounded type stone wall base - Custom Profile?

rob2218
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Barry Kelly
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I think you only have 2 options.
One is to model each stone individually - not impossible but not very practical.
Or create a complex profile as you have done, so it look reasonable in section.
Apply a surface material that has a stone hatch associated so it looks good in elevation.
That surface material could also be set up with bump map and displacement so it looks a bit lumpy in renderings as well if that is important.

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rob2218
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thanks Barry.
I thought that was the case.
it seems there is no way to create an irregular type stone profile like that.
I suppose that if I tried to just do that jagged shaped profile....it may end up looking strange cause you'll see horizontal lines running across the base too evenly huh?

hum...I may just do a slanted wall, add some texture map to it with some vectoral hatch pattern of similar round stones and call it a day.
Seems that's my only recourse.
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Barry Kelly
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rob2218 wrote:
I suppose that if I tried to just do that jagged shaped profile....it may end up looking strange cause you'll see horizontal lines running across the base too evenly huh?

Not if you use a spline to create the profile.
Curves won't show any horizontal lines (unless you see the top or bottom of the curve).

Barry.
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Erwin Edel
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How about a wobbly line for the outline of the shape for section and just keep it as the 'box' shape for vectorial hatch and texture?
Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
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rob2218
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I could use a spline but any curved line when put into a profile causes havoc at corners if they aren't exactly meeting up just right. Strange Archicad resolution issues occur.
Besides, a curved line will take longer to process too and it's not that important to have.
Also, I could use that "sketchy" linetype as the profile linetype and just use a flat, canted sloping wedge of a profile. Maybe that's the way to go.

Trick the section into looking like a wiggly line, yet have the 3d model just have a flat canted wedge profile as the stone base and have texture on it.....
...Bobby Hollywood live from...
i>u
Edgewater, FL!
SOFTWARE VERSION:
Archicad 22, Archicad 23
Windows7 -OS, MAC Maverick OS
Erwin Edel
Rockstar
rob2218 wrote:
Also, I could use that "sketchy" linetype as the profile linetype and just use a flat, canted sloping wedge of a profile. Maybe that's the way to go.

Trick the section into looking like a wiggly line, yet have the 3d model just have a flat canted wedge profile as the stone base and have texture on it.....
That's excactly what I meant
Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
www.leloup.nl

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