After another round of playing around with the hidden (or should I say "forbidden"?) fruits of transparency, I came across some more unexpected behaviour.
The idea was to explore the possibilities to make a roof, in this case the sloping side of a "standard" roof. I drew a triangle with walls at 60 degr angles, with two walls sloping at a 45 degr angle. I then inserted a room, made the floor invisible, and deleted the walls. CopyAsNewFurniture copied just the roof, which was then ex- and imported as an OBJ. So far pretty standard. The results are show below.
Picture 1 - Aerial view
Picture 2 - Virtual visitor
Clicking the name of the pictures gives access to a larger screenshot.
It may be worth noting that:
- neither in Aerial View, nor in Virtual Visitor are the triangles visible in the 2D or in the 3D preview
- if I apply colours to the triangles, they behave more normal, and are visible from one side only (as a roof is "supposed" to behave).
The link below downloads the sh3d file.
Hans
Transparent roofs