This is exactly what I wanted! thanks a lot!
Can't wait for this to make it's way into 3ds Max

I'm trying to create a transparency effect that has a gradient sphere. Basically whatever elements are close to the inside of the sphere or an origin point/location/datum will be more opaque and get more transparent as they get further from the focal point until they disappear completely ...

Last time I tried the Octane plugin for Revit, it was absolutely pathetic. They did not support linked files, materials, the user interface was just a horrible mess and they had not developed on the latest version of Revit 6+ months after its release.

I would have more hope for the 3ds Max plugin ...

Here's some illustrations of more tests with light conversion:
Convert.jpg
Convert2.jpg

There's a few issues shown:
-The lumen value gets converted to some non-lumen "power" value. It would make more sense to keep lumen as lumen, because this is what the lighting industry uses to talk about ...

paride4331 wrote:Hi SamuelAB,
in the future we should be able to convert Autodesk Standard surface to Octane Standard Surface Material automatically.
Regards Paride

Fantastic, thank you Paride!

Hi SamuelAB,

Could you post some FBX sample files ? maybe with screenshots of the original software (Revit) ?
And also corresponding max files after conversion with VRay ?

Thank you

Playing around, I've (re)discovered a few things.
If I export the FBX from Revit, the IES definitions are lost ...

I'm having issues converting lights from Revit FBX files. Using Octane 2021.1.4 - 12.16 in 3ds Max 2022.

The 3ds Max Octane "Convert All" tool does nothing to regular lights from Revit. I have to convert them to VRAY lights first using the VRay tools before Ican convert them to Octane lights.
When ...

By the way, I do high quality VR art pieces and as I mentioned, for video-games (especially VR), you want to have as few objects as possible. So that means you will have few objects, but they are all huge. I also bake all my lighting with Octane because it is so fast and beautiful.

So while I will ...

One of our R&D engineer also made an algorithm to split meshes automatically into equal chunks super quickly, so that may come in handy.

Hi Karu,

This is super helpful. I can simply split the mesh.

Usually for gaming and mobile VR, you want to have few pieces of many triangles to reduce draw-calls. It seems like it's almost the opposite here.

I will carefully re-read this, play with my page-file and modify the scene.

Thanks for ...