vodsonic Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I've drawn a 3d room with a sloping ceiling. I gave the walls a lighter, neutral color. There is a blackout line 18'8" AFF - the walls need to be painted black from there up. I'm not sure how to paint the walls this way in Vectorworks, in a way that will render nicely. The easiest workaround that I could come up with was to add a second wall inside the existing one, 1/32" thick, with black fill. I set the height of the wall to equal the distance from the blackout line to the highest point of the ceiling, and the Bot Z to 18'8". I didn't add vertices to this fa?ade wall, as I did with the real wall, to follow the slope of the ceiling, so the fa?ade wall actually extends above the ceiling in most places. This is OK when rendering the interior of this room, but not so great when rendering in an upper isometric view with the roof off. I'll have to mess with my fa?ade wall later to get it to follow the ceiling. Is there a more elegant way to put a paint pattern on a wall in Vectorworks? Quote Link to comment
gScott Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 you could draw 3d poly's in elevation at the correct height + angle etc, and float them just "inside" the walls, but the way you have described is actually better IMHO Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Fit walls to roof will take care of the penetration problem. Or you could create a 2-tone texture and apply it to the interior of the wall and move it into position using the Attribute Mapping tool Quote Link to comment
Keith W Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I guess with VW 2010 you could use a mural or whatever they call that feature... though I'm not sure it'd be simpler. Ah, decal texturing, yeah that's the ticket. Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 OK - here it is. Texture - Horizontal stripe Quote Link to comment
vodsonic Posted November 28, 2009 Author Share Posted November 28, 2009 Thanks to all who made suggestions. I don't have VW2010 yet, so for now I stuck with my original solution, plus this: Fit walls to roof will take care of the penetration problem. It looks great. Quote Link to comment
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