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I am having a problem with rendering windows. I am relatively new to revit software, and also to rendering. I have managed to build a model and apply all of my materials and in a 3D view everything looks correct; all of my materials are there and my windows are a pretty, transparent blue. But when I render the windows become a gray color and are no longer transparent. What am I doing wrong with this?
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You need to adjust the rendering of the window. The shaded view is seperate from the rendered version. Look at the materials dialog under settings. Find Glass and click the box next to "Usd Rendered Appearance for Shading" the box will turn Gray. Then click on the Render Appearance Tab at the top and select a glass material. That should do it..
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A couple of things to check: 1) Check to make sure that the window/glass material that is being used is actually a glass render material (check in the object styles dialogue "Settings > Object Styles > Windows > Glazing." Or just check the "Settings > Material" dialogue, look for the glass material and check the "Render Appearnace tab to make sure it is a glass material and not Generic like it is a lot of times. 2) Make sure you are rendering Sun and Artifical lights when you render. This is in the render dialogue box before you begin the render. That shouldn't make a difference, but just thought I would make sure.
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Thank you both so much for replying! But neither worked.... I will attach an image so that you can see what's happening. It's quite frustrating since everything else is starting to come together so nicely.
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I have been experiencing the same issue.....Try checking the transparency of the glass in materials settings. I made the glass very transparent and it seems to have worked correctly...I have found the same issue with the water material and applied the same process....this works too
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Is that a door/window family or a curtain wall? Is it all the glass in your project or just the glass in this family? Finally, if these are families, were they created in Revit 2008? The screen shot you are showing me indicates that the material being used for the glass in this family/wall is not set properly. We just need to find out which material it is trying to use. The fact that the frame/mullions of the family/wall are also a generic grey tells me that that material is not rendering correctly either and that this may be a family that is calling on accurenderer materials.
Edited on: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:16:34 AM
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That may be the key here! I don't think the family was created in 2009. I have checked the materials and they are the set to the same materials in the family as they are in the building model. If it searching for accurender materials, how can I fix that so the materials will render correctly?
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How can I fix the fact that this family is calling on accurender materials?
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The 2009 don't accept "Accustudio.mlib" like 2008, so i think you must assign new materials to the objects you have with Accurender materials... It's a pain in the curse i know,i pass by that too....
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Linking other Revit files can also cause certain materials to go wrong. I had linked a file with a curtain wall (it was for an adjacent building that my firm also deisgned) into my project which also uses curtain walls. Since both curtain walls were using "System Panel: Glazed" it would only render with the material settings from the linked file. The solution was to create a second type of system panel (I called it "Mirrored glass" and set the other curtain wall to use that material as its Curtain Panel. I suspect the same issue would hold true for materials on objects other than curtain walls too.
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