Autodesk Materail

[glorybound]

I don't know, you would think it would be one of the first materials you could convert. Is there a reason why we can't convert them using V-Ray's material converter?

[^Lele^]

What is an "Autodesk Materail"?
Which specific shader are you referring to?

[glorybound]

Autodesk Materials, from a Revit model, for example.

[^Lele^]

What do they come in as in Max?
What's the class name for them if you dragged one into the material editor?

[Vizioen]

They come in different flavors for example:

Autodesk Glazing
Autodesk Metal
Autodesk Generic
Autodesk Plastic/Vinyl

[^Lele^]

and those are shader classes? may it be i don't see them because i didn't install some interoperability pack or the other?
EDIT: indeed. google knew, thanks Ashley for the precise names, they helped.

[^Lele^]

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/suppo...3975D-htm.html

This should do it (to standard or physical material, and then with the V-Ray scene converter.)

[glorybound]

I use the universal material converter script, but I thought V-Ray would handle it. I paid $70 for the script. I'll try Autodesk's. Thanks.

[hoppergrass]

This request has come up many times in the past and quite I am rather surprised that you haven't heard of autodesk materials. Vray for Revit does this conversion automatically.

I have tweaked Max's scene converter to convert all types revit materials to standard materials, then I use the Vray scene converter to change them to Vray materials. I have a script that converts all BDRF's to GGX because they are set to Phong with the Vray scene converter.

Its a bit clunky but works. It would be nice if Vray could do all this in one step.

[^Lele^]

Its a bit clunky but works. It would be nice if Vray could do all this in one step.

Oh don't get me wrong, i'd agree.
I didn't know they existed, but they are seemingly a backbone for some AD workflow.

[hoppergrass]

correct and has been for many years, they are a hang over from when revit and max used mentalray as its render. They were also a pain to find in your scene with heaps of materials and multi-sub materials before the scene converter and the universal converter script. It was a manual process of trawling though every material until you found that one autodesk or pro-material. Many hours lost.

One more to add to this request is the convert "Autodesk Bitmaps" , "Audodesk Tile" , "Autodesk Noise" and every other "Autodesk map" type to either a standard (scanline compatible) or Vray equivalent.

this is from the last time I conversed with Vlado about this , https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...nversion/page2

if this ever sees the light of day I'd be a very happy man

[^Lele^]

From that thread, it'd seem to me that the AD scene converter (ie. the one i linked above) should be able to convert AD materials into V-Ray ones.
Or am i wrong?

[hoppergrass]

it was promised, but I could never make it work to convert directly to Vray.

[glorybound]

it was promised, but I could never make it work to convert directly to Vray.

Pretty pricey, however, it works for me all the time.

https://3dstudio.nl/webshop/product/...rial-converter

[hoppergrass]

Unless I am missing something, Vray materials are not listed