Jump to content

Textures and meshes


Recommended Posts

I feel this is an important topic that has also been around for almost a decade. I have imported a Revit model and it came in fine, but ultimately, all the parts are meshes.  I expect this sort of conversion from a modeling software (e.g.,3D Studio) but not what I thought was a CAD program. Shouldn't they come in as some sort of mathematically defined shapes? I suppose that is a question for another day. It is not enough for a third-party model to import. It has to be at least minimally editable. This does not seem to be true with meshes, which is generally the format that imports. Apparently, VW cannot even put textures on meshes (well, you can, but you can't manipulate the texture mapping, so it is the same as having no map at all.) This is very disappointing since this complaint goes back almost a decade. Does anyone know if there IS a way to manipulate textures on meshes? For me, they seem to come is as "dumb objects," unchangeable in nearly every way.

Thanks,

MHBrown

Link to comment

OK. It may be a Windows problem. When I tried to scroll down in the render edit window it did not scroll as it does on my Mac version of VW. It did nothing, so I assumed that the texture could not be edited. When I manually expanded the render edit window, however, all the controls for editing textures came into view. These types of annoyances occur often in the Windows version, but never in the Mac version which is far more robust (if I don't restart Windows at least once a week problems begin. I have gone a couple years now without restarting my MacBook Pro.)

I still have questions about mesh imports being difficult to deal with, but I don't think texture maps are one of them.

Thanks,

MHBrown

Link to comment

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Restore formatting

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...