Material Converter to Include Autodesk materials from Revit

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voltaire585
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We always get FBXs out of Revit nowdays and they always have Autodesk materials on them Autodesk Metal, Autodesk Generic. I wish the Tools/Material converter could even make just a basic glossy of the same colour. At this stage I would be happy with just the most simple conversion.

Thanks
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When developing the Revit plugin, I tried to extract the Revit materials from the FBX files, however they referred to an external material library that was encoded and could not be accessed via the FBX API. Maybe they are available in 3ds max - I'm not sure. The other way to get them is via the OctaneRender for Revit plugin, which does a conversion of known standard materials from the Revit material library. Try the demo to see how faithful the conversion is. You can then export from the Revit plugin in OCS or ORBX format and import into Octane Standalone (but probably not 3ds max).

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voltaire585
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If you are planning new types of shader conversions. We would really like to be able to convert Autocad and Revit imported material types. ie
- Architectural from autocad -
- Generic from Revit
really all we care about is to convert to glossy and keep diffuse map or color, i think we can fix the rest.

Faceoff - unfortunately we cant get ORBX to 3dsmax, and we may lose a lot of other important properties going via the Standalone. Thanks though.
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