Video Edit Material

[Honorato Winkel]

Samefor us we would like to modify the material catalog. We are looking for the software to make modification on Mac for . xml. We try to open with oxygen xml editor and it work. But we are afraid to save. Need help.

Just edit it in the Building Materials dialogue? Do remember though this is file specific, so if you make any changes and want them to carry over to other files, you will been to use the Attribute Manager to transfer them and possibly copy them over to the relevant template.

Thanks for the information but already know that we can modify from archicad the value . what we want to know is how to dit it we want to add a information like the R-value as a row. What softwares to use to dit .XML file on archicad

Hello to everyone thanks for the answer but we already do that. What we want is to be able to modify the base of it and other .xml document. we need the software to edit those .xml so we put our need for the office.

Thanks for your suggestion, and yes, we modified the data in our template already. We keep trying to add more physical properties to building materials without creating a new tag in the property manager.

My suspicion is that the Material Catalog is part of the ArchiCAD library. Since it is translated in our local version, but we only have attributes and library elements translated, not the actual interface of ArchiCAD.

I went ahead and figured out the workflow myself, you can apply materials to meshes just fine but they require using the Material Override in their properties since there is a bug that does not allow you to edit the properties for individual meshes.

Usually this process would be streamlined and using material overrides would not be necessary, you could simply apply a material to a mesh directly or import a GLTF embedded file. There are two bugs that make this impossible right now:

Good morning! Currently to edit a material library material, one has to copy it to the local document, perform the edits to the document material and then copy it back to the library to overwrite the library material. It would be nice, if there could be a way for certain users to have permission to edit and directly alter the library, without having to copy the materials locally. If anyone has any questions or knows of another way to do this, I would love to hear about it. Thanks in advance for your vote, hope all is well and have a most blessed day!

Hello, I want to edit the color map of a D5 material. Even though D5 has an in-built edit option for color maps, it has certain limitations. Therefore, it would be helpful if someone could guide me on how to locate the color map so that i can edit it in Photoshop.

Hi @NOG_the_DOG

Thanks for your love for our materials. But the resources in the D5 Assets library are encrypted and cannot be exported to other software. You can only adjust these these parameters in D5 currently. Thanks for understanding!

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In Blender 3.0, I have linked a character (created in another file) into the current scene. I enabled Library Overrides and I can change the pose of the character... but unfortunately I can't change its material (I'm mostly interested to change the base color). Is it possible? I need it to quickly see which color best matches the scene colors.

On the top of the Material panel you can click on this Link button and choose Object, it will create a new material. After that, as mentioned by josephhansen you can unlink a material or create a new one.

I have a script that I manually run from the editor (in Edit Mode) that programatically instantitates the GameObjects for each icon, sets their material, then switches that materials light-up effect to "off".

The editor throws an error message claiming that I am leaking materials into the scene by editing them during Edit Mode. I don't think their advice to use the SharedMaterial property is good advice, because before the game has started playing, I want a mix of "on" and "off" lights.

My game doesn't run slowly, but for some reason the instantiating process runs somewhat slowly (maybe 10 minutes to instantiate 500 icons, which is unacceptable) but I'm still unpacking / optimising; and not sure if the material instantiation is to blame.

You are creating instances of materials in edit mode, but those materials are nowhere actually serialized and stored as assets, they only exist c#-wise. The editor complains that these are leaking because Material instances usually only get deleted if you actively Destroy them or unload the scene/object instances they belong to.

Should I make separate "on" and "off" materials and switch between them instead of using properties of the material? (Very annoying, did this for anothe older project because I was unable to determine the best way to work there too.)

The reason to do this programatically instead of manually is due to the volume of different materials of my scenes needing to switch between "on" and "off". This happy compromise seems performant; and logistically lets me maintain masters of my materials that can have variants generated as needed; instead of trying to manually maintain each version (and fearing them become out-of-sync).

The materials in my case, are stored within a ScriptableObject referenced throughout the GameObjects in my scene. As needed, they can look up materials from this resource using Linq and switch material.

Cadmio is an amazing rendering app on the ipad (currently in public beta) with amazing materials rendering and UX/UI. Its the perfect match for shapr3d to make realistic renders of your models.

But I would really like to see an AR equivalent of this. Just as easy to add materials to the parts/surfaces. But being able to show them in AR immediately.

Unfortunately, I cannot unlock the materials, but only choose a shader when right-clicking (see Image). How else can I unlock the materials?

Seriously Unity, how can such a basic functionality become complicated after an update?

*.sbsar translates to Substance Archive and is a material definition file containing all necessary Substance ingredients. These materials need to be created in Substance Painter/ Designer and can then be shared with other programs. Not sure, though, how it's supported in AI. I'm reasonably certain they intentionally created those flat default materials and the whole shebang would just crash with custom materials.

What do you do when Illustrator does crash because of this and nothing seems to fix the problem when trying to use anything in the new 3D panel? Like Mario, they did not initilly crash Illustrator for me either. However, I did get distracted and accidentally clicked too many files at once to upload and crashed it. Since nothing has worked to get 3D to cease not responding and crashing Illustrator on me. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, used the cleaner tool, had Adobe remote help do a complete unistall and other stuff on their end and still it crashes and I was just told wait for an update maybe that will help or maybe a substance specialist can call me. All downloaded substances have been deleted btw. I am losing my mind trying to fix this, any ideas or suggestions would be so appreciated!

In this case, I think whatever I am building is irrelevant because anything I try to build will not allow me to use 3D effects. Nothing is saved and I have no files other than "Substance Materials from Adobe" I had downloaded into AI. My project is in PSD, I am needing AI to make certain images/objects for my project as I go. I need to disassociate "My Materials" with my Creative Cloud account, I think it is still trying to sync them. This is what crashed AI, an accidental mass upload at once, I had a few files selected and my cat got into something and when I leaned over I put pressure on my touch pad and it selected the rest of them, not noticing this happened before I proceeded. It froze and crashed AI and has been doing so every since. It was working fine prior, with some materials already uploaded. I, myself somehow, have figured out that it is still trying to pull my materials or they are the issue (which are now deleted). Removing the file in that folder, mentioned above, gets me access back into 3D effects (without visual or use of materials) so it has to do with "My Materials" in some manner, but I am not a computer pro, expert or even advanced so I am now stuck on the actual fix. Do you know how to delete or disassociate your "assets" in Creative Cloud? This may work for me if I follow that with a uninstall, reinstall. I was also thinking if I could try installing a "clean or new/different" folder holding miscellaneous perhaps that would fix the problem file, as I don't know which file it would be in AI. I am no expert, not even computer savvy and I am figuring out more and more on my own....but this is so frustrating and confusing.

I know the problem was an accidental mass upload of dowloaded substances while distracted, so I figure something somewhere is continuing to recognize "Your Materials" under Materials tab in 3D effects, even after everything, and maybe is trying to upload still or has a corrupted file (I have also deleted all downloaded materials as part of the attempted fix). So to test my theory I went into program files and located the Material-Resources folder and deleted the files outside the Default Material Substances folder: material_icon_render.sbsar and missing_material.sbsar. I relaunched AI and after doing so I was able to access 3D effects but no materials would appear, just continous "searching cirlces", also my "Your Materials" folder was still there as I had suspected...so in some manner (not crazy computer savvy) my thought is correct, I am just not entirely sure what exactly is causing it or how to fix this...

I had downloaded material substances from Substance 3D Assets from Adobe site, I was in a document with a simple circle at normal bevel and extrude no extras at this time with my 3D Materials open. I clicked on the + sign to add my own materials, it opened and I added in some of the assets I had downloaded. Everything was fine, I checked them out and liked them so I went back and downloaded the additional ones from those collections. When I came back into AI I did the same thing, except this time I got distracted (as described) and instead of clicking a few to upload at a time, I hit my touchpad and selected all of them, since the window is small I did not notice and proceeded with the upload of my materials "assets". This then tried to add all of them (which was quite a few) and it caused AI to stop responding then close/crash, when I tried to go back in it did the same thing. I went to the Adobe help site for illustrator and followed there steps for crash issues. None of them worked or fixed the problem. Neither did remote help from Adobe support, who just uninstalled and reinstalled differently and more thouroughly and also put the AI 2021 on my computer to see if 3D worked, which it did; 2022 still did not. She said she would have a substance specialist call me this week and to wait for an update that maybe would fix it.

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