How to create new facade style ?

[nrdamayanti]

Does anyone ever try to create new facade from a picture ? 

I have to apply different building facade from real picture snapshoot. I tried from style pallete but it didn't work. It can  not load specific picture. I also try put the image in the same directory with others facade source images. It didn't work too.

Any advice? 

Ema

[ToddRogers-WPM]

I have done this in the style palette several times.  The best way to do it is to copy a style and alter it.  Creating a new one is quite the task to get to work correctly.

[elliott.rosenfeld]

Hi,

Not sure if this will completely address your question, but hopefully this At Land's End blog, "Defining your own facade styles," will help-- despite being written for the previous UI I think it stilll holds water:

http://atlandsend.typepad.com/at-lands-end/2013/03/defining-your-own-facade-styles.html 

Also, I pulled this information from (a now defunct) forum. Thanks to Martin Huxol for this explanation:

"The building facade generator... can be used to stylize a variety of buildings with different properties. The facade style can be applied to any building no matter what height and width it has. So the style must be adapted somehow and therefore it might be necessary to stretch or compress some parts of it. Basically the style consists of different facade blocks that can be arranged arbitrarily. Lets say you only have a single facade block (e.g. a single window) specified in your style and now you want to apply it to a large building. The only way to do this is to stretch the entire window to span the whole building facade. So the result will heavily depend on the style and the cells it contains. A simple solution to keep the cell size as close to its original size as possible is to use fill cells. Defining the floor layout you can use wild cards, e.g. fl00,fl01*,fl00. This means that the fl00 cell will appear exactly once at the beginning and end of each floor, while the fl01 cell can occur as many times as necessary to fill the floor or it can also be omitted completely. If these fillers are being used for floors and cells, then the size of the resulting facades cells will remain very close to its original size. But you can never get rid of the compression or stretch entirely, unless your style matches exactly the size of the building."