Real World Wall Textures

[Guest BillV]

With walls I am sure there are many users who would want to see more realistic Wall Coverings instead of the current Texturing which has been around seemingly for ever.  This image shows what can be done with an existing tool - Create Planar Display - to produce an accurate siding weather board.   The second image shows metal siding/ roofing material.  How difficult is it then to extend this and produce realistic wall coverings.

[Ross Harris]

Exactly - I used surface array and a small extrude of a profiled metal cladding to make the roof and wall cladding on the attached - it gives infinitely more realism to renders than displacement mapping can or where this isn't available.

[BG]

Will definitely look into using this technique! Obviously making changes to the wall or roof will require more work to redo the array. 

[Kevin K]

Very minimal work to modify it.

You will discover that once you get into the whole surface array thing 🙂

[Guest BillV]

Kevin, I agree and I know Ross from Aspect Design does. So what do we do to get Vectorworks inc to act on it. With the new rendering options available to us we really need proper 3D presentation and texturing ability like this for walls and roofs .  Displacement mapping is old hat  and not particularly effective

[Kevin K]

Uh……perhaps getting down on all fours and begging??  That would be a start.  🙂