Renderworks Texture Help

[TSG-Sim]

When using renderworks textures and you apply the texture (for example a plywood edge on a desktop) to a multiple filleted shape.

What is the best way to get a texture UV wrapped correctly so all the faces are the correct way up and aligned correctly, when I need a texture just on the edges of a shape not the top and bottom, how do I get it to align all the way around without manually mapping each one. I have included a file that shows the rotation of the UV. In some other programs I can use UV unwrapping or other UV methods to make the texture align correctly but I can't seem to do this quickly within vectorworks within picking every face individually and rotating them.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Simeon

Sample Fillet renderworks texture.zip

[Tom W.]

I do the same as you: as per your last example, apply the texture that occurs on most faces as 'overall' then use Texture Tool to apply overrides to the minority which need to be the second texture. 'Auto-Align Plane' with 'Follow Longest Edge' enabled seems in my case to give best results but not always, then I have to apply additional overrides to correct the faces which are displaying incorrectly. So for example, your last example with the ply overall set to auto-align plane + follow longest edge gives me this:

 

 

So four additional face overrides required to correct the rounded corners. I think this is the least amount of work of all the options but yes be great if there was a quicker way! Having said that, until a couple of versions ago when they brought in the Texture Tool you couldn't do any of this at all so despite the work involved it's still welcome functionality despite all the clicking involved...

[line-weight]

You could also choose to model it as per reality, with a plywood core and then a thin laminate layer on top. Then give each object the appropriate texture.

[Tom W.]

41 minutes ago, line-weight said:

You could also choose to model it as per reality, with a plywood core and then a thin laminate layer on top. Then give each object the appropriate texture.

 

Even then you'd still need to use texture overrides to get the edges looking correct on the core object:

 

No overrides, Surface UV mapping:

 

No overrides, Auto-Align Plane mapping, Follow Longest Edge:

 

I'd love to know how it works in other software + how much easier/quicker it is...

[line-weight]

If I do no overrides, plane mapping, and then rotate 90 degrees I get this.

The top face is wrong of course, but would not matter if hidden by a thin layer laminate as a separate object.

 

 

[Tom W.]

The small fillet on the top + bot edges still needs correcting though... (to fulfil the requirements of the OP)

[line-weight]

"cylinder" map pretty much manages it although not with great image quality (have increased the radius of those fillet edges for clarity).

 

 

Edited January 8 by line-weight

[Tom W.]

That is a good option in this case. But nevertheless the fact remains that often the only choice is to apply individual face overrides + rotate the textures manually which can be quite laborious...

[line-weight]

Agreed.

 

In particular it would be good to have a way of texturing materials with some kind of directional grain in an intelligent "3D" way.

 

Like you I'd be interested to know how other softwares deal with this.

[TSG-Sim]

totally agree @line-weight if it could have an intelligent autobox mapping so you can just align to a direction on all faces and it automatically maps planar but in the direction you choose in the UV box.