by face_off » Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:50 am
face_off
Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:50 am
"Metal - Stainless Steel,Polished" on my install of Revit doesn't have any texturemaps or bump maps. Same with "Steel, Chrome Plated". So neither would have any texturemaps to bring across in the conversion process.
For these metal materials, the Revit "Metal Type" is Chrome, and the Revit API unfortunately does not give access to this important information and therefore the plugin does not do a great job converting these materials. So once the "Steel, Chrome Plated" material has converted to an Octane Material, overwrite that material by loading one of the LiveDb Chrome materials, then "Save As Default". Then the next time you use "Steel, Chrome Plated" you'll get the LiveDb version (the local stored copy, not the cloud copy). The LiveDb metals will be much more realistic than any of the material definitions available in Revit.
Paul