Vray For Archicad 16 Free 25
Valorie Welker
on point 2.
mind that you may have per-face assignments. I have no idea how ArchiCAD exports breps, but it is theoretically possible to loose material assignment if you only check object materials.
Would you post a simple example - a .3dm input from archicad, and the same file modified manually to the final point you want to go. The I can help you figure out the required steps to get from A to B.
Also what is your preferred programming language ?
One final thing to note - when running the vrayMtlfromRhino command - the UV mapping channel was set to 2 for each (converted) vray material, instead of 1. Having the channel set to 1 displays the texture mapping correctly when rendering. I manually corrected this in the _vray file.
What is the advantage to export the model as 3dm from ArchiCad?
From AC 25 I get the textures assigend only with the meshmodel export option.
For this purpose the obj export is faster with less file size.
Hi,
assuming all materials are standard custom materials (not PBR materials), then we have only 4 textures to check. Also I change the mapping channel to a hardcoded 1. I guess all these assumptions are valid, but in case they are not, you can alter the code as you please
This give us the most flexibility within 3d max and allows for quick changes from the Archicad model to be easily imported into 3D max model. (why import the whole model again and retexturing if your just changed a partition wall). Also we take it a bit further and split the above parts into stories, ground floor, 1st floor, 2nd floor etc....
No we apply new vray materials. 3dmax / Vray materials are far better than archicad textures.. It is a little time consuming but once you have done a few jobs you can create a library of ur common materials and thus applying materials to the 3ds models becomes a lot quicker...
This basically groups all objects which has the same archicad materials as one element, therefore say in your partitions 3ds file, you can apply a painted finish across all partitions rather than selecting them individually and applying a material.
I do exactly as Pixelman does, except it's no longer necessary to download a plugin to export to sketchup. You just go into the 3d view, and click FILE, SAVE AS and select .skp from the file extension.
These are usually floor/slabs, exterior walls and openings (no means of separating these in AC that I know of, do it in sketchup via "select by material"), wall claddings, interior walls and openings, structural columns, structural beams, roof structure, roof coverings, exterior hard landscaping etc etc
I'm surprised that many don't use the din3d plugin. It works great with Archicad - Max because it gives great optimization options, and also allows you to update your Max model easily while keeping material changes etc.
Din3D was by far the best solution we'd found as it allowed you to update the model easily with no issues, including on very large and complex models. It also optimised things along the way and kept it all neat. Unfortunately he's now taken down the website and it would appear that its no longer available...
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