new texture?

Hello Vilmantas,

you can use the "user defined textures" to do this. In the directory c:\Dietrichs08\GIF\Freitex you find the files Str__*.png. If you replace one of these files with a picture of the same size and select the corresponding "User texture" in our construction program, our program will show the picture on the wall, beam etc.

Best regards,

Jens Krause
Dietrich's Support

I want to do this, but I don't find anything Str_*.png. I have version 7.03, by the way. I find these "textur" files. Is it one of these I should exchange with a 512x512 picture of the texture I want??

Hi Thorvald,

it is possible that the Str_* Textures have been introduced with Version 8. You can replace the ones shown above. They are all pictures of Str_ type, so the will be stretched to fit on larger objects.

Best regards,

Jens

It looks like the files named something with "textur" are for example "tiled_1_1x1m" in the Dietrich software and files with names something like "vollbild" are those called "strech..." in the Dietrichs software. So wich one would be better to use for a texture of horizontal wood boards facade?

Hmm, is it the bmp files or the png files that should be replaced??

Ok, it seems to work to some extend. I have saved a copy of the picture as all possible files, with the same number (2) in that Gif / fritext database. But for some reason the picture is turned 90 degrees. Aaaahhhh could be because the panel is inserted 90 degrees.

But I still wonder what file it was correct to save it as - it might be the "tiled" that was correct, but what file in the library it corresponds to, I don't know.

Hi Thorvald,

the png files are used in our software in openGL. The bmp files are used when you export your building to VRML.

For a facade you should use the tiles textures.

Regards,

Jens

Ok that's great - it seems to be working surprisingly well. I mean, I made a facade of "real" wood boards, with section made in material database etc. But if I make a large building with a lot of m2 of this wooden facade, the computer can't handle it in OpenGL - it gets too heavy + from distant view the lines are getting together, and the facade is just black lines. But using this texture with panels, that covers a whole wall, will make the model significant less heavy. And it actually looks very much as the "real" wooden facade boards.

Hi Gottlieb,

I thought it must be the png files OpenGL uses, because it is possible to use transparent areas in textures...!?

Best regards,

Jens

Hi Gottlieb,

Great, thanks for the info!

Best regards,

Jens

Zitat von Der_Planer

I'm sure, it's just the other way. Bmp is used by the program, and png for export.

Thorvald:
You can use pictures with other sizes than 512x512. At least, the width and height must be even, not odd, otherwise pictures may appear strange on some faces.

Stretched pictures are used to integrate real building photos onto a wall. But: Do not use too large pictures direct from your digicam.
Before using a photo, you have to straighten and cut it in a photo software.

If you use own photos for patterns or tiles, the pictures must fit seamless. You can send me one of your pictures, and I try to make it suitable...

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Thanks but for now it seems to work very ok. The size also seems very good, even though I just cropped out a piece of 512x512 from a picture of the facade made in Dietrichs with real facadeboards. Vertical there should be I think 23 boards and here is 21 - no-one will notice.