I was thinking about to use concrete aux. in panel settings, but it is not possible to choose #Concrete. So until further notice I just leave the material field empty, and then the elements have a grey surface, that is acceptable as concrete. Real concrete is not so dark and rough as the concrete material. But it is quite good to show that this is concrete.
Auxillary in concrete in panels.
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That's right. But it's not so easy, because "textures" are not only bitmaps. They have to be seamless. A normal picture from your digicam is never seamless. That means, you will see a 1x1 m grid in your selfmade concrete.
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There are 2 kinds of textures defined in texture sets:
- those which repeat in a defined x-y-direction
- others that are stretched to the whole area of a surfaceAnd there are different types of parts, which need different texture sets:
- beams are filled with the same texture, except end A and B
- plates can be filled with different front and backside and the 4 sides around.Texture sets are internal and normally users should not change them. (normally
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There is a folder "Freitext". You can replace these texture_xx.bmp with your own pictures. They will appear as 1x1 m. In CD version 7, there are more textures, named "Vollbild....bmp". They are made only for plates, and are stretched to the full front surface.
Feel free to make experiments with them.Seamless textures must exactly fit left /right, and up/down. Making seamless textures in photoshop is something you really have to study. It is difficult to do, and takes much time. There is software to make artificial textures, but at the first time you use it, you will not get everything but the results what you want.
If you are interested, look at http://www.spiralgraphics.bizPerhaps you can also read my first post in the German Tipps&Tricks :
http://user.dietrichs.com/inde…file=viewtopic&t=7164
