Problem with rendering a decal

[jeffhackman]

Hello everyone! Happy Holidays!

I am having an issue with trying to produce a VR Stereo 12:1 image and I have a picture of a world map on the wall as a decal but it doesn't show up in my rendering. Anyone know how to get my decal to show up?

Thanks in advance!

[Ana Lyubenova]

Hi Jeff,

We don't support decals yet. You can create either a vrmat or a standard Revit material and scale the map so that it fits to the decal picture size.
Note that if you have placed the decal directly on a wall, after removing it you'll need to create a rectangular geometry and assign the material to it.

Happy Holidays!

[jeffhackman]

Thanks for the reply Ana!

I tried creating a Revit material with the image (its a map of the world) and got it lined up where it needed to be so that when I look at it in 'realistic' visual style it shows correctly. However, when I render an image it just shows as black. Is this because the AutoGen can't translate the image to a VRay material? If so, how do I create a VRay material from an image?

[Ana Lyubenova]

AutoGen translates all Revit materials, there shouldn't be any black surfaces etc.
Have you deleted the decal prior to assigning the Revit material?
If you want, we can make a quick remote session, so that you can show me what's wrong.

[jeffhackman]

I tried rendering it once more and it didn't show up as black but it doesn't show the map either. It looks like a very blurry version of it.


This is what it is supposed to look like


This is how it looks after rendering

[Ana Lyubenova]

I see another material on the second picture and it is reflective.
Can we make a remote session via Skype or TeamViewer?

[jeffhackman]

Yes we can do a remote session. How do we do that?

[Ana Lyubenova]

Check your private messages at the top of the page under notifications

[jeffhackman]

Ana helped me to discover that in my Material Browser the material that contained the map was not set to AutoGen. Once I switched this to AutoGen it worked perfectly. Thanks Ana again for your help!

[Ana Lyubenova]

You are welcome, Jeff!