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Nobody knows how to do this?

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Did you search the forum?  Guess not.

Did you look at the similar threads listed below?  Guess not.  I would start there.

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Thanks WWHub...this helps:

To use your own photos of people, trees, cars.... in Revit you can use RPC Creator - it is freeware but you have to register first. Here is the adress: http://www.archvision.com/RPCCreator.cfm Here you can find .rfa-files to load into a component http://www.rugi.org/cgi-bin/peoplesexch.pl to experiment a little with... You must have an editable .rpc-file to start with to load into RPC Creator and you must have at least two images. One with the photo and one with the mask. You can make them in e.g. Photoshop. If you only have one image with a mask image you must in Step 4 in RPC Creator choose zero:s 0 for image and 0 for the mask - not 0000! You can use 360 images with 360 mask images if you like to and it will be a little more 3D -- but it is not necessary... Then you have exported the .rpc file with your own image from RPC Creator. You can open a .rfa file from the map Entourage in Revit and click Family Types to change the value of the parameter RPC Filename to your own .rpc-files name. And then save the .rfa-file with a new name. Now you can load the .rfa-file as a component in a Revit project and your image will get the right perspective proportions then you render a scen using the camera. Have a look in the Gallery on the image The Prammer Man to understand a little moore. I hope I get 50 more points for this tutorial??? Perhaps some day I will do it as a word-file and get my earning. Or everyone is free to make a tutorial from this explanation... so I do not have to do it myself. Just do it.

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"Then you have exported the .rpc file with your own image from RPC Creator. You can open a .rfa file from the map Entourage in Revit and click Family Types to change the value of the parameter RPC Filename to your own .rpc-files name. And then save the .rfa-file with a new name."

Bazar,

 I have followed your description of how to create your own RPC's, and everything has worked great up until the part you explain above. When you say I can open a .rfa file from the "map Entourage in Revit," where is that exactly? I'm trying to create some more people, so I created an woman as an RPC. I then open up the RPC female.rfa file, so I can go in the Family Types and change the value of the parameters so I can create my own .rfa. When I do this, though, I cannot find the RPC I made. Is there a certain place I am supposed to export my RPC to from RPC Creator? Thanks for your help!

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rcloonan,

I actually haven't tried doing an rcp yet. I found those directions in another thread. So, I am useless...

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"Then you have exported the .rpc file with your own image from RPC Creator. You can open a .rfa file from the map Entourage in Revit and click Family Types to change the value of the parameter RPC Filename to your own .rpc-files name. And then save the .rfa-file with a new name."

Bazar,

 I have followed your description of how to create your own RPC's, and everything has worked great up until the part you explain above. When you say I can open a .rfa file from the "map Entourage in Revit," where is that exactly? I'm trying to create some more people, so I created an woman as an RPC. I then open up the RPC female.rfa file, so I can go in the Family Types and change the value of the parameters so I can create my own .rfa. When I do this, though, I cannot find the RPC I made. Is there a certain place I am supposed to export my RPC to from RPC Creator? Thanks for your help!

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Oh ok...well thanks anyways Bazar. Thanks for the quick reply!

 I'll try to see if I can figure it out, and if so I'll post a reply to this thread.

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dgcad,

    My bad...I was just wondering if anyone had any "Tips and Tricks" on how to make RCP's.

What is IE?

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Typically after you make an RPC you can place it here (this is where they are for me): C:\Program Files\Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010\Data\Rendering\assetlibrary_base.fbm\RPCs

Once they're in there if you have Revit open you should close it since the new RPCs don't show up for me if I have Revit open already.  If you repeat those steps to where you couldn't find your RPC they should show up this time...be sure to use the pull-down option so it will show ALL RCPs you have (which are in the above folder).  If you put your created RPCs in the folder where all the existing Revit RCPs are located you should be able to choose your created RPC after you make a new family type and want to select a new image (your RPC).

Hopefully this makes sense!

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