OMEGA-ThundeR Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Hi, I want to visualize a design i am making for a banner, since i am not that good in photoshop i try to remake the banner in autocad and put the image 'on' the banner. However the banner in not an flat surface, but a bit hollow with rounded sides (so that it can stand on it self). I made the banner the same size als the autocad drawing, but now i want the image to be on the surface of it. Is there an way to do this best ? The attached file shows the same banner, althoug 1 as an extruded Pline and the other as an "closed thing" (so offset the pline, closed it and then extruded it. Any help on this = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 i didnt draw your exact shape but i drew something similar. I used planar mapping and selected my surface. then just create a material using your image file and scale it appropriately. the icons have changed in different versions but i believe the command is SETUV. there is a post further down this page asking a similar question about mapping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMEGA-ThundeR Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 I was able to do it with the materials, although i first didn't know how to scale it. Now i did get it like i want, although the left side shows an bit of the right side of the image. I could just delete that part from the element, but for now i got what i want. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 well if you use mapping and set your bitmap to fit object, you will get one "tile" per surface. I believe that is the intention of using mapping. After you "map" a surface then you will just apply material to that. I dont have the experience with this so hopefully someone with more knowledge will chime in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjun_samar Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Hi, I want to visualize a design i am making for a banner, since i am not that good in photoshop i try to remake the banner in autocad and put the image 'on' the banner. However the banner in not an flat surface, but a bit hollow with rounded sides (so that it can stand on it self). I made the banner the same size als the autocad drawing, but now i want the image to be on the surface of it. Is there an way to do this best ? The attached file shows the same banner, althoug 1 as an extruded Pline and the other as an "closed thing" (so offset the pline, closed it and then extruded it. Any help on this = me too. in 2007 i havent encountered this mapping problem but when i got to 2009... thats where i got this mapping problem.. and looks like you got it right... what did you do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMEGA-ThundeR Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 Command "Rmat" for opening material, made an new material, as an diffuse map i added the image and under 'material offset and preview' i tried to fit it in the way you see a few posts back. Dunno if that was the right way, but got me the result you see above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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