Autodesk Generic Materials to V-Ray?

[eyepiz]

Hello,

I have a large Revit project that imported with all Autodesk Generic Materials, can these be converted to V-Ray? The scene converter does not seem to work with them. I usually create new shaders but this one has about 300+ materials and I only want to create new materials to the objects in view the rest is all background.

I would appreciate any help!

Eric

[glorybound]

converting works for me. Are you using V-Rays convertor, or a 3rd party script? I use V-Ray's and it converts Revit materials fine.

[eyepiz]

converting works for me. Are you using V-Rays convertor, or a 3rd party script? I use V-Ray's and it converts Revit materials fine.

I'm using V-Rays convertor...I've seen Arch & Design and Architectural but these are "Autodesk Generic" and it doesn't seem to work.

[voltron7]

I usually use this...works quite well, but I am not sure there is any support or contacting the developer (at least for me.)
However, I have not tried it yet with these "Generic" materials.

[eyepiz]

All the materials come in as Multi/Subs could that be it?

[Bruce Hart]

converting works for me. Are you using V-Rays convertor, or a 3rd party script? I use V-Ray's and it converts Revit materials fine.

Bobby - Unless I'm mistaken, the vray scene converter only converts standard materials to Vray. It won't convert Revit Autodesk materials. Can you expand on what you are doing there? I'm not talking about A&D materials BTW which are translated to vray at render time

[svetlozar.draganov]

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/sc...multyconvertor
This scripts seems to convert the Generic Mtl to VrayMtl but unfortunately it doesn't preserve any properties like attached maps, colors, etc.

[glorybound]

but, for $75? You would think this is something that can just be done nativly.

I'm using V-Rays convertor...I've seen Arch & D convertor...I've seen Arch & De

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[eyepiz]

I tried everything...only the $75 converter partially worked. It only converted about two third of the materials and error'd out, a real pain when you have 300 of those generic materials in a scene. I ended up doing most of them manually.

but, for $75? You would think this is something that can just be done nativly.

[glorybound]

you would think that there was a simple solution.

[super gnu]

just necro'ing this thread. is it not about time that the vray converter was updated to support more material types? id say the ability to reliably convert every common material type would be a more important new feature than many. it still completely ignores autodesk generic materials, which, given the fact they crop up in almost every model i receive from an architect, and their generally *generic* nature, they should be relatively simple to auto convert.

ideally id also love to see octane materials supported, since personally i work with people who use octane, and they seem to have almost no problem converting from vray to octane.. is it so hard the other way?!

seems to me, allowing people to easily convert *away* from your product, but not providing a pathway to move *to* your product would be undesirable to say the least.

i know there are various third party converters (none which work with octane iirc) , but this should be a vray feature.