- Wed May 14, 2014 12:09 pm
#380333
Hi all,
I've been using Maxwell for several years now (I think we had the Beta of version 1?) so it's very much a part of my workflow. We're currently on 2.7 (and will probably upgrade to 3 at some point).
I've been wondering about a couple of aspects of my workflow which might not be the most efficient, as I've pretty just much just muddled my way through learning it so it's very much self-taught.
Firstly, our ArchiCAD models quite often export with different materials applied to different surfaces of one object. My usual process is to 'Select by Material' and then 'Apply to Assigned Objects' to change a material en-masse, but this misses objects where only certain triangles have a material that needs replacing. When this happens, I need to select the object, open up the Triangle Groups palette and individually drag the intended material to replace the old one. This is fine for one object, but when I have lots, it's a very time consuming process.
Is there a more efficient way of replacing the material over all triangles of all objects in one go?
Secondly, is it possible to break up the render elements so that they can be composited in Photoshop? Specifically, it'd be really handy to have the reflection and diffuse as two separate files (ideally along with shadow and AO layers). The render option seems to allow for diffuse or reflection, (or the two combined), but not the two separately?
These are probably really obvious to everyone else, but any help appreciated!
Thanks,
Derek
I've been using Maxwell for several years now (I think we had the Beta of version 1?) so it's very much a part of my workflow. We're currently on 2.7 (and will probably upgrade to 3 at some point).
I've been wondering about a couple of aspects of my workflow which might not be the most efficient, as I've pretty just much just muddled my way through learning it so it's very much self-taught.
Firstly, our ArchiCAD models quite often export with different materials applied to different surfaces of one object. My usual process is to 'Select by Material' and then 'Apply to Assigned Objects' to change a material en-masse, but this misses objects where only certain triangles have a material that needs replacing. When this happens, I need to select the object, open up the Triangle Groups palette and individually drag the intended material to replace the old one. This is fine for one object, but when I have lots, it's a very time consuming process.
Is there a more efficient way of replacing the material over all triangles of all objects in one go?
Secondly, is it possible to break up the render elements so that they can be composited in Photoshop? Specifically, it'd be really handy to have the reflection and diffuse as two separate files (ideally along with shadow and AO layers). The render option seems to allow for diffuse or reflection, (or the two combined), but not the two separately?
These are probably really obvious to everyone else, but any help appreciated!
Thanks,
Derek