Texture mapping or positioning?

[msclark]

Is there a way to reposition wall textures? I have two walls butting up to one another and the textures don't line up. Most 3d programs have a way to manually or numericaly move the texture origin for ant given object, where is it in vectorworks?

[msclark]

I forgot the key part of this post - I am using windoor from ozcad, which works great in many ways but I am unable to reposition textures on the windoor wall sections, does anyone have any experience with this?

[G_Hannigan]

If you select the wall, go to the Render Tab of the OIP, select the appropriate sideand scroll down, do you see any controls for texture adjustment - Scale, Offset Horizontal & Vertical, Rotation?

George

[propstuff]

I haven't tried it with windoor, but the attribute mapping tool allows you to just drag textures I seem to recall.

[G_Hannigan]

It does, but aligning textures between walls seems a little tricky this way. If you use the Original Repeat Mode, you can see the entire textured surface in a 3D view and align them. I guess they both take a some practice.

George

[msclark]

Those control don't exist for windoor objects - I also emailed ozcad and they said that vectorwork's support for texture mapping plugin objects is spotty at best do they are unable to support that function at this time. I have resorted to moving the textures on the adjecent walls with the attribute mapping tool, which works fine, just more to do. Although there are a few issues like this with windoor, the ability to create complex windows and mulled units far surpasses vectorworks window tool. Worth looking at if you do a lot of custom window combinations. Thanks

[G_Hannigan]

Not clear - are you trying to adjust the textures on the walls or the inserted windoor objects themselves? I don't use windoor - not clear on how its objects interact with VW walls. I know they are more complex than VW's objects,but do they change the nature of the wall in a way that is different from a VW window or door?

George

[msclark]

WIndoor enables you to make corner windows - it does this by drawing a wall above and or below the window because vectorworks foes not support corner window braks in thier walls. I wanted to adjust the texture on the windoor wall sections to line up with the vectorworks walls but have resorted to adjusting the textures on the vectorworks walls.

[G_Hannigan]

So you end up with a vertical seam in the wall where the VW portion meets the Windoor portion? Have you been able to get the textures to match well enough to disguise it?

George

[msclark]

Yes, if I use the attribute mapping tool I can move the vectorworks wall texture to line up. It works fine, just means there are more walls to texture map then if I could just map the windoor wall.