DriveWorks Pro 24

Appearances

Appearances

The Appearances folder contains all of your DriveWorks 3D Document Appearances.

Model appearances can be added, edited, deleted and merged. Initially these appearances will be taken from imported Drive3D files.

Additional Appearances can be added at any point in the DriveWorks 3D Document.

The following guides detail how to work with Appearances:

• Adding an Appearance
• Apply an Appearance
• Rename an Appearance
• Merge Appearances
• Delete an Appearance
• Importing a resource

Add an Appearance

1. Right click on the Appearance folder.
2. Select Add Appearance.
3. Enter a name for the appearance.
4. Click OK.

Once a new appearance has been added the Render Property can be applied.

The Render Property controls the render type applied to the appearance.

The following Render Properties are available:

• Default

  The default render property is the simplest and easiest appearance render property. It allows a single color and texture to be applied.

• Specular

  The Specular render property uses the same lighting as the default render property but adds further detail to the specular highlight for more realism.

• Bump

  The Bump render property allows a Bump texture to be added to the appearance.

• Emissive Bump

  The Emissive Bump render property gives the appearance of illumination.

• Reflective

  The Reflective render property is used specifically for creating objects that have shiny or reflective surfaces.

• Glass

  The Glass render property is a specific render property for creating glass like objects.

• PBR

  PBR (Physically based rendering) will render appearances based on real world material properties.

• PBR Advanced

  PBR (Physically based rendering) Advanced takes all the possibilities of the PBR render property and adds further levels of realism.

Copy An Appearance

Appearances can be copied and pasted within the same DriveWorks 3D Document and between other DriveWorks 3D Documents.

1. Select the Appearance to copy.
2. Select Copy (or right click - Copy).
3. Select the Appearance folder.
4. Select paste (or right click - Paste).

   The new copied appearance name will be suffixed with a - and an incremental number (-1 for the first copy).

Copy Appearance Rules

Rules applied to Appearances can be copied and pasted within the same DriveWorks 3D Document and between other DriveWorks 3D Documents.

1. Select the Appearance to copy the rules from.
2. Right click, select Copy Rules.
3. Select the Appearance to copy the Rules to.
4. Right click, select Paste Rules.

Apply an Appearance to a Model

Appearances can be applied by dragging (left mouse click and hold) from the Feature Panel onto the target model in the 3D View or the Node tree (in the Feature Panel).

The effect is previewed in the 3D view and only applied once the mouse button is released.

Appearances cannot be applied to a target model that has an override appearance rule set.

This is highlighted in the 3D View.

Rename an Appearance

1. Right click on the Appearance.
2. Select Rename Appearance.
3. Enter the new Appearance name.
4. Click off the Appearance to apply.

Merge Appearances

1. Select multiple Appearances.
2. Right click on one of the selected Appearances.
3. Select Merge Appearances.
4. Select the Appearance To Merge Into from the drop down.

All selected Appearances merge into one.

Delete an Appearance

1. Right click on the Appearance.
2. Select Delete Appearance.

Import Resource

Import Resource allows you to import Geometry and Appearances without adding the files Node structure to your DriveWorks 3D Document. This gives you the ability to build your own Node structure and lets you place models where you need them.

1. Right click the Appearances folder.
2. Select Import Resource.
3. Choose a DriveWorks 3D File to import data from.
4. Select Open.

The DriveWorks 3D File will be added as a source file and the Geometries and Appearances will be added to the DriveWorks 3D Document.