Applying texture to front face of floor

[Alok]

Hi all,

I'm new to VW 12.5, and I'm having a problem applying texture to a floor. When I go to the attributes menu and select the texture I want, it applies the texture only to the top of the floor face. The problem is that the front face of the floor is also visible, so I need the texture to cover this as well.

I've searched the forums, but was unable to come up with anything.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

-Alok

[G_Hannigan]

As far as I know, yu can only apply atexture to the top face of a floor object. In the past, I've used a 3D poly with the desired texture oriented to cover the exposed edge. You may have to move it slightly so that it shows.

George

[MKingsley]

Yes, floor objects will only texture the top. You can give the floor a fill color that approximates the texture color to get kind of half-way there. There's also a great plug-in by Patrick Higgins called "Slab Object" from www.vectordepot.com that lets you assign classes (and therefor textures) to each side of 3D polygon. HTH.

[Alok]

Alright, thanks for the info! I just ended up covering it with a 3D Polygon, like you suggested.

Thanks!

-Alok

[Don@Black Dog]

This method (3d poly) has also been suggested in the past for texturing the outside face of the floor slabs in models, either for coninuity of image or for a special effect, watertable, color band, etc.