Picture on object.

[michnov]

I created extrude object, how i can set the image on the one of side?

[Benson Shaw]

A couple things can work.

A.  Create and apply a new image texture:

The extrude is a 3d object.  Images are applied to 3d objects as image textures. Textures apply only if the 3d object has a solid fill (white or other color).  Textures, including image textures, are resources available in the Resource Manager.  Create a new image resource and image texture as follows:

• Open the Resource Manager.  In the file list (upper left side), select the currently active file. It may already be selected, especially if only one vwx file is open.
• Click the New Resource button at bottom left side. This opens a dialog with list of resource types.
• In the dialog choose Renderworks Texture.
• If no image resources are present a file browser window opens. Navigate/select your image file (which then becomes an image resource in the vwx file).
• If image resources are already present, a dialog opens offering choice to import a new or to access list of existing image resources.
• In appropriate dialog, navigate and select the desired image.
• The Edit Texture dialog opens.
• Name the new texture (upper left data field)
• Click to open the Color shader menu. Choose Image
• A dialog with this file's image resources opens.
• Choose your image, and close the color shader menu.
• The other edit functions can be  adjusted to suit, but too much to explain here.  Accept defaults and click OK.
• Now you have an image texture in your file.
• In the drawing area, select your extrude.  In the OIP>Render tab, Click the Texture button.
• Choose Texture.  In the dialog, choose your new texture.
• Or you can assign textures By Class. (Make a new class with this texture selected in the Texture tab.  Assign this new class to your extrude).
• This puts the texture on all faces of the extrude.
• Render the drawing, eg Shaded.

Whew! Bunch of steps, but textures are a deep topic and this just grazed the surface.

 

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B. Use the image as a 2d item placed on a face of the extrude.

• Paste your image into your drawing area.
• OIP identifies it as a Bitmap. It's on the layer plane.
• Drag the corners to approx desired size.
• In a flyover view, use the Move by Points tool to move a corner of the image onto corresponding corner of the extrude.  If needed, this can move the bitmap up/down along z axis
• If need to rotate onto a vertical face of the extrude, use the Modify>Rotate>Rotate 3d command to turn it vertical, or place drawing in side view and rotate the bitmap 90°, or, apply the Rotate tool with drawing in Automatic Plane. Use the extrude vertical face to guide the plane of rotation.
• If needed, Move again (I like Move by Points) and/or Scale again by dragging corners.
• Bitmap is a separate object, not part of the extrude.  If needed, group the Bitmap and the Extrude so they move as an assembly.
• Note, the bitmap will be visible from both sides, unless obscured by other objects, and the image will be visible in rendered and wireframe views.
• If the extrude color fill interferes with the image, move the image slightly away from the extrude.

Post back if more help needed.

 

-B

 

 

Edited August 4, 2022 by Benson Shaw
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[Benson Shaw]

Another way is to use Image Fill on a 2d object. Apply the image by choosing Image in the Attributes Palette Fill pull down menu.  Adjust the size and rotation of the image via the Attributes Mapping tool.

 

-B

 

[Tom W.]

9 hours ago, Benson Shaw said:

A.  Create and apply a new image texture:

The extrude is a 3d object.  Images are applied to 3d objects as image textures. Textures apply only if the 3d object has a solid fill (white or other color).  Textures, including image textures, are resources available in the Resource Manager.  Create a new image resource and image texture as follows:

• Open the Resource Manager.  In the file list (upper left side), select the currently active file. It may already be selected, especially if only one vwx file is open.
• Click the New Resource button at bottom left side. This opens a dialog with list of resource types.
• In the dialog choose Renderworks Texture.
• If no image resources are present a file browser window opens. Navigate/select your image file (which then becomes an image resource in the vwx file).
• If image resources are already present, a dialog opens offering choice to import a new or to access list of existing image resources.
• In appropriate dialog, navigate and select the desired image.
• The Edit Texture dialog opens.
• Name the new texture (upper left data field)
• Click to open the Color shader menu. Choose Image
• A dialog with this file's image resources opens.
• Choose your image, and close the color shader menu.
• The other edit functions can be  adjusted to suit, but too much to explain here.  Accept defaults and click OK.
• Now you have an image texture in your file.
• In the drawing area, select your extrude.  In the OIP>Render tab, Click the Texture button.
• Choose Texture.  In the dialog, choose your new texture.
• Or you can assign textures By Class. (Make a new class with this texture selected in the Texture tab.  Assign this new class to your extrude).
• This puts the texture on all faces of the extrude.
• Render the drawing, eg Shaded.

 

With the 2022 Texture Tool you can apply a texture to an individual face of an object.

 

And a fourth option, which may not be appropriate in this case + in addition doesn't work in Shaded render mode, is to apply the image as a Decal on top of another texture.