Best Western

[glorybound]

First stab at this one. It went well, so far. The Revit file I received was done well, so it was easy to get it into MAX and with a script I was able to create a layer for each material used. I tried to keep the light on the building, so hopefully the foreground shadows are not too gloomy.

[glorybound]

I brightened everything up a bit.

[chadstevens]

Images are very small, I can't really see any of the detail, it's probably the new forum that is downscaling everything.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

yes it does and quite drastically....its almost useless posting somethign wiht greater detail all gets lots....i thin i will have to look around for external placement

[Macker]

Surely the resizing is a glitch and not meant to be like that? It's absolutely useless at the moment.

[glorybound]

Another try

[rikou]

Same as the firsts for me.
This is.... problematic !

[Vizioen]

Just click Full Size before posting, it's not brain surgery.

[glorybound]

Just click Full Size before posting, it's not brain surgery.

Yep, I did!

[Nicinus]

The Revit file I received was done well, so it was easy to get it into MAX and with a script I was able to create a layer for each material used.

What script was that?

[glorybound]

Layer from material and it is brlilliant.

-- put objects onto layers one layer for each material and name the layer by the material name
-- by Olaf Finkbeiner for www.mainworks.de

layers = #()
obj = #()

for o in geometry where o.material != undefined do (append obj o)
format "----------------------------------\n"
format "objects with materials: %\n" obj.count

m = scenematerials
c = m.count
format "materials in the scene: %\n" c

for i = 1 to c do
(
layername = m[i].name
format "material number:% | material name:%\n" i layername
layer = layermanager.newLayerFromName layername
if layer != undefined then format "new layer created: %\n" layer.name
else format "!! the layer was not created !!\n"
for o in obj where o.material.name == m[i].name do (layer.addnode o)
)
format "----------------------------------\n"

[rusteberg]

I was gonna ask about the script too.... Thanks for sharing that Bobby!

[Vizioen]

I've never encountered a revit model that had clear materials, most of them were multisub materials, how does it handle those?

[iancamarillo]

Is the Universal Material Converter still the ONLY way to convert Autodesk Generic materials to vray?

[glorybound]

I'll record something when I get a chance. It doesn't splice up the geometry, it'll create a multi-material and put it on its own layer.