Christiaan Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 How would you go about modelling this type of cladding arrangement? I'm loathe to model the actual cladding panels (editing/changing it would be a nightmare and we just don't earn that level of fees) so would rather create the cladding using a texture. But I haven't had much fun creating shader textures so far, there's too much abstraction and trial and error involved. So I'd be concerned I couldn't get the quality and accuracy we need. Quote Link to comment
Chris D Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 We have just modelled a similar building, but with this style of cladding wrapping around an irregular curve. You just can't hope to control a texture well enough to have specific panels where you want them. We just modelled it. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 Thought someone was going to say that Is there anything Cadimage hasn't created the benchmark for? http://support.cadimageworld.com/movies/view/0891-coverings-panel-cladding Think I might just create a wishlist that points to each of their tools. Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Christian, a thought- During DD Could the whole facade of clad area be one poly with holes for the windows, shell or extrude for the thickness? A grid of straight lines or NURBS or 3d polys with EAP triangles would be a second object (kind of a 3d hatch) representing the joint lines. The poly and grid would be easy to edit as things change. Whenever shop drawings or a detail is required: Use the grid to cut the poly into individual cladding panels. -B Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 (edited) Modeling directly or using Symbols containing Walls for each panel may be the best solution. Otherwise - using a Tile fill on a clipped planar polygon and moving to position with the Attribute mapping tool will give you accuracy and a reasonable degree of flexibility. Edited February 29, 2012 by bcd Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 Thanks guys, much appreciated. I'll test them out. How'd you model it Chris? Quote Link to comment
Chris D Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Just used extrudes 20mm thick for the panels. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted March 12, 2012 Author Share Posted March 12, 2012 I've modelled the cladding but I'm not getting enough definition at the joints. I've extruded them 8 mm (because that's what the actual board is) and they are space 10 mm apart. I've also made the wall behind black. Any tips to make those joints blacker? Chris, is this why you made yours 20 mm thick? Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) Would it be possible to create doors or windows that look like that? You can then place them outside the wall and replace/edit the different types individually when necessary (I assume you have a certain limited amount of standard panels placed randomly?) Back to your question, if you reduce image exposure and increase the emitter brightness I believe the shadows will become more pronounced. Oh and something I've learned over the years try to use as little ambience in your textures as possible (except in white materials), this always makes for difficult and unrealistic effects in renders. Edited March 12, 2012 by Vincent C Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted March 12, 2012 Author Share Posted March 12, 2012 I'm not sure, a frameless door/window? Is that possible? What I've done is drawn a polygon for each panel, applied a Class for each colour panel and then created one big extrude out the whole lot. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted March 12, 2012 Author Share Posted March 12, 2012 if you reduce image exposure and increase the emitter brightness I believe the shadows will become more pronounced. Of course. Should have thought of that trick, learnt it last week. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted May 18, 2012 Author Share Posted May 18, 2012 Couple of things to touch up yet but this is how it turned out. Quote Link to comment
Kizza Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 (edited) That's it. After seeing that render, I'm going back to work at Sainsbury's!! Looks great. Edited May 18, 2012 by Kizza Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted May 18, 2012 Author Share Posted May 18, 2012 heh, thanks Kizza. Quote Link to comment
Kizza Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 (edited) Would the curtain wall tool be usable in this case? I mean, create the facade as a curtain wall, recessed mullions for the joins, and various different opaque glass textures for the coloured panels? I haven't delved into VW curtain wall tool yet personally... And if you wanted to add an earth hatch under the ground line - did you end up finding a solution on how to do that on the DTM, or would you just Vectorworkaround it using filled poly? Edited May 19, 2012 by Kizza Quote Link to comment
Kizza Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 Had a quick play with the window wall tool. It appears to be very limited. You can't change the profile of the mullions You can't apply different glazing colours to separate panels You can't substitute a glazed panel with a solid panel You can't create a recessed mullion You can't remove mullion sections Window wall mullions don't automatically cut around doors on insertion basically useless, except for the most basic.... Quote Link to comment
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