Several of the AEC Collection applications support the use of digital images as material maps. This allows users to photograph an existing building (for example) and then wrap the images around a 3D virtual model.
The trick to creating custom material maps is knowing how to optimize the images. In today’s installment we’ll explore some best practices for sizing, cropping, stretching and touching up images such that they'll map perfectly to the faces of a 3D model.
If you are interested, I’ve created a quick video that walks through the process…
NOTE: The images I create in this example are meant for use in InfraWorks.
(Click here to learn how they are applied to an InfraWorks building).
That being said, these images could also be leveraged as material maps in other AEC applications such as AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks, 3DS Max and FormIt.
-Jeff
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