I saved an .atl file from the Archicad 12 (at the export window, i checked all of them: Walls, Slabs,... Light...), and opened it at the Artlantis. It saved all my textures from the Archicad ofcourse. But the problem seems to be this: only the textures for the materials are saved, and not the setting made for those materials. That is, this material look better in Archicad, than Artlantis. As i heard that Artlantis has far more rendering abilities, than the Archicad, i am jus wondering what seems to be wrong?
P.S.
this material issue, is only related to the ones i have manualy made in the Archicad, and they look pretty good in it, but very poor when i render it at the Artlantis.
Re: Manualy created materials from Archicad, are not good enough at the Artlantis ?
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I saved an .atl file from the Archicad 12 (at the export window, i checked all of them: Walls, Slabs,... Light...), and opened it at the Artlantis. It saved all my textures from the Archicad ofcourse. But the problem seems to be this: only the textures for the materials are saved, and not the setting made for those materials. That is, this material look better in Archicad, than Artlantis. As i heard that Artlantis has far more rendering abilities, than the Archicad, i am jus wondering what seems to be wrong?
P.S.
this material issue, is only related to the ones i have manualy made in the Archicad, and they look pretty good in it, but very poor when i render it at the Artlantis.
The appearance of a material depends very much of the rendering engine as other technical stuff. Reflectiveness, shininess are key issues for these materials and the texture has to be adapted to that specific rendering engin. I suspect that the differences might come from here.
At the other hand, the ArchiCAD lightning mode and the Artlantis lightning mode is different (in fact the capabilities of the rendering engines are different.) In ArchiCAD you have a ray tracing engine, while in Arltantis there is a fast radiosity engine and it makes all the difference.
If you know that you will continue your work in Artlantis, maybe it is worth to set textures as well as lights in Artlantis, and keep only the modeling job in ArchiCAD.
