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Revit RGB material color not rendering (rendering grey)

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 12:20 pm
by SS_RS
I'm working on a massing/light analysis. The site context is rendering fine but the mass for the new building is rendering as a light grey, not the dark blue I have set the material for the in-place mass.

Anyone know what's going on? So far I'm finding the way Maxwell is treating Revit's materials, whether they be bitmap based or a straight RGB colour unpredictable to the point of it being unusable.

Re: Revit RGB material color not rendering (rendering grey)

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:21 pm
by Marton Day8
Please check it later also with the upcoming beta build.

Material conversion is not an easy task..... if we get info via the Revit API, sometimes the different material parameters are in contradiction, but even if it is not the case conversion to Maxwell material is not obvious.

In the future I will add better controls for the material conversion.

Márton

Re: Revit RGB material color not rendering (rendering grey)

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:28 pm
by SS_RS
Hi, thanks.

I got around the RGB problem by creating an MXM with the same RGB.

Better control of bitmap (autodesk) materials would be great, a What you See is What you Get would be the ideal option