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3D object appears transparent

  • January 21, 2025
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mariaka
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Issue

I have several 3D objects (coming from IFC) with variable appearance styles. In one case the style seems transparent. Both in FME inspector and in the final writer (Cesium3DTiles) these objects are kind of transparent.
(see feature informations in annex)

the dark-red “wall” seems transparant by contrast with the two parts ontop

What I did so far

  • Changed/Reset appearance (AppearanceSetter) → no effect
  • checked on Geometry (GeometryValidator, VertexNormalGenerator, GeometryRefiner, etc) → no effect

Questions

  • How can I make the transparent objects opaque?
  • What’s the difference to the other objects?

3 replies

koulsoum
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  • January 21, 2025

Hi ​@mariaka ,

I think FME faces are represented like this with opaque for external faces and transparent for internal faces. But probably, it’s possible to  have a confusion between interne and externe objects. If you want all your 3D objects in one color you can use GeometryColorSetter, and set the color as i’ve done :

Or you can also convert your 3D objects in 3D polygons with the GeometryCoercer by choosing fme_polygon, automatically you will have all faces colored, but it will not be fme faces but fme polygon.

 


mariaka
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  • January 21, 2025

Hi ​@koulsoum 

thanks for your quick answer! That worked for the FME inspector. Unfortunately it has no effect for the writer. I tried to coerce the geometry. As it is not a polygon it cannot be forced to 3D polygon. In my case I tried composite_surface, brep_solid and mesh - with no revealing results.

How can I handle internal/external faces? How can I force them to be all external?


mariaka
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  • January 22, 2025

In case someone can look into the data, here they are…

I don't know what to do next.
In FME inspector the 3D data looks good, but in Ceisum they don’t.


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