[korbusier]

I am not having any luck with archicad surfaces converting into new Maxwell 3 material during renders (specifically bump maps).
Most of these materials worked in Archicad 17/Maxwell 2 and would appear as a decent bump or displacement. Upon moving the project to Archicad 18/Maxwell 3 this had fallen apart. I have rebuilt materials, tried importing Maxwell materials etc. with no success. Instead of bump maps translating into "bump' and surface treatment they only appear as a surface image.
As well I have tried to create an MXM and link to that. While the MXM renders well within the maxwell material edit window, as soon as it is set as a material in the project it fails (bump map shows as surface color) in the render export.

I have noticed that the Cine4d that ships with Archicad, has no trouble with any existing material, newly created material or even converting Maxwell MXMs to a proper bump display when rendered.

Anyone have an idea or a similar experience?

[Marton Day8]

Hello,

I am not sure I have understood your problem correctly, but it can be related to a communication problem between ArchiCad 18 and the plugin.
It is probably a bug on the AC side, I have communicated it to Graphisoft and they promised they will fix it.


Have you tried this very same plugin version under AC17? In case the problem is this, export should work fine under AC17.

Márton