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Textures applied to walls

Ok, so I'm drawing a wall and want to add a texture to said wall. I have tried the texture editing in the "Obj. info" window, the carpet worked great but the walls all i can see of the texture is the top and end of the wall not the wall itself. I know that the texture is there but not showing on the over all wall. What am I missing?

attached is the file

Thanks ya'll

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Concert Room.vwx, 1.1 MB

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Permalink Reply by Bob Holtzmann on June 18, 2010 at 9:46pm

I've done this on a project before with viewports. My solution was to go into the Annotation layer of the viewport, and draw 2D polygons as opaque masks over the elevations. The polygons had a hatch pattern representing 6" horizontal siding. The solution worked until windows and doors got moved.... then I had to get into the viewports to reshape the polygons.

Eventually, I found a wall texture that matched the siding, so I did not need to draw hatched polygons anymore.

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Permalink Reply by Nick Williamson on June 19, 2010 at 12:57am

1. Yes

2. Viewports will always update automatically and if the elevations are 2D then all hatches and patterns will update. If you are generating elevations from a 3D model then a texture solution has to be found (as Bob has pointed out)

3. Nick

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Permalink Reply by Nick Williamson on June 19, 2010 at 1:32am

Sky

As an addendum to my previous. You could always apply a hatch to a rectangle, choose the 'None' option for the line and then export the hatch as an image using the Marquee option. Bring the resultant image in as a new texture via the resource browser. Its not a perfect solution but may get nearer your goal.

Nick

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Permalink Reply by Mark Miller on June 23, 2010 at 5:30pm

Ok,
So here we go again... It worked for a bit, but as you can see by the file it's not taking again. Do I need to go through the list in the OI? As you can see it works in some places, but for the most part it doesn't take.
Again attached is the file. And if I am a dufass I have no problem being told so...
Thanks

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Concert Club Room VER 3.vwx, 15.5 MB

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Permalink Reply by Nick Williamson on June 28, 2010 at 2:51am

I'm not in the UK at the moment so can't open the file but will reply soon..jury is still out on the latter.

Nick

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Permalink Reply by Mark Miller on June 28, 2010 at 5:50am

glad to see a sense of humor... thanks

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Permalink Reply by Nick Williamson on July 1, 2010 at 12:45pm

Mark

Your walls are not 'taking' because when you select them you will see the 'None' fill option is enabled in the Attributes Palette.

Select the wall/s and then change the fill option in the Attributes palette to 'Solid'

The jury are coming out and they don't look happy......!

Nick

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Permalink Reply by Mark Miller on July 1, 2010 at 12:53pm

OK.... Thanks, and I hear that English juries are far worse than US juries... Plus they get to wear those awesome wigs! Thanks for the help and the laugh.....
Mark