mudhouse opened this issue on Jul 11, 2001 ยท 8 posts
mudhouse posted Wed, 11 July 2001 at 8:13 PM
Daffy34 posted Wed, 11 July 2001 at 9:42 PM
As far as the materials go, there is a workaround to your problem of not being able to select individual parts of your model. If your model comes in with these materials already assigned to it, then the materials are separate if you go to your materials summary (it's the button on the toolbar across the top that looks like two dots right next to each other). If you choose each one, you can either edit it to use a bitmap or you can change it to a procedural. Only that part of the model that has that texture will be affected. Then you can change the others as well. Your model may not come in with it's separate parts, but apparently your material layers did and you can change them that way :). I hope I've explained it in a way that you can understand and I hope it helps :). Also, you may want to try double-clicking your model in one of your views. It will bring up a box that will allow you to split the model by material. Just a warning tho...it may cause Vue to crash, so save first. I've only had that happen tho if there were tons of materials or if it had tons of polys. Laurie
mudhouse posted Wed, 11 July 2001 at 10:26 PM
Hi, thanks, sorry to be so lame but I cant find any two dots next to each other at he top menu bar...and if I doubl click on the model, all i get is a polygon option dialogue box.... Im using Vue 4. Thamnks. MUD
Varian posted Wed, 11 July 2001 at 10:36 PM
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Hi MUD, yep like Laurie said, use the Material Summary to reach the individual materials for the model. To achieve a shadow on the bed of the water, you need a bed for the shadow to land on. Either lower the ground plane to the depth you like, or select the water plane (and the boat) and raise them until the depth is what you like. To create a wake for the boat, that's probably easiest to do using a terrain object. Check out the tutorials at Laurie's website for creating objects of terrains. And, last but not least -- *nice* boat! That's a very good model! :)Varian posted Wed, 11 July 2001 at 10:44 PM
If you can't pick out the icon across the top of the screen, use the menu drop-down. Click on Display > Display Material Summary (or click the F6 key) and it will pop right up. :)
Daffy34 posted Thu, 12 July 2001 at 6:21 AM
Sheesh! I should have given you the menu option for the Material Summary ;). Sorry. I'm so used to using the toolbar icon...LOL. Laurie
mudhouse posted Thu, 12 July 2001 at 8:47 AM
mudhouse posted Thu, 12 July 2001 at 8:51 AM
Oh, yes thanks too for the nice word about the boat itself. It will be about 25' in real life - based on old designs for a "camper/cruiser" - very slow (apx 5-8 kts) with a flat bottom and lots of varnished mahogany and painted canvas decks. MUD