bc Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 (edited) I have created a brick wall using an EAP with the profile shown. Can anyone inform me as to why the bricks texture changes course mid-run and then returns to correctly showing? The planters aside the stairs are separate extrudes. Thanks bc Edited October 29, 2018 by bc Quote Link to comment
0 CipesDesign Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 I have seen that happen before. I don't know exactly why. One suggestion: try using Walls for the everything except the cap, and then use EAP for the cap only. That might solve the problem, at least visually. Quote Link to comment
0 bc Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 Yes Peter thank you. I have already done that and with the walls it looks fine. Thanks for letting me know it's a glitch. I just thought I'd be lazy when I was first extruding the cap by including the whole profile. Not good, apparently. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment
0 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tim C. Posted November 1, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 1, 2018 @bc you should be able to fix this by changing the Map Type to "Auto-Align Plane" in the Render tab of the OIP. I'm guessing you currently have it set to "Perimeter"? Hope this helps! Quote Link to comment
0 bc Posted November 3, 2018 Author Share Posted November 3, 2018 That's nice to know Tim, however I have "plane" as the only option. This is an Arroway texture if that makes any difference. Maybe it's a VW2017 thing and different for later issues. I do have these but this job is in 2017. Thanks bc Quote Link to comment
0 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tim C. Posted November 5, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 5, 2018 @bc Ahh yes that explains it. There was a bug in VW 2017 that caused only "Plane" to be available for EAP texture mapping (fixed in 2018). As a workaround you can convert the EAP to a Generic Solid (using Modify/Convert/Convert to Generic Solids) which brings back all the mapping options including "Auto-Align Plane". Sorry for the inconvenience! Quote Link to comment
0 bc Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Well I went with walls which is what I should have done in the first place. Thanks for your input. Quote Link to comment
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I have created a brick wall using an EAP with the profile shown.
Can anyone inform me as to why the bricks texture changes course mid-run and then returns to correctly showing?
The planters aside the stairs are separate extrudes.
Thanks
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