topic Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24 in Visualization

Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Scott Bulmer — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:47:39 GMT

Is Twinmotion Direct available for Archicad 24 and if so where is it? Thanks, Scott

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 07:50:14 GMT

I don't yet see it listed. You should check its availability on this web page:

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/twinmotion/plugins

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Sam Wheatley — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:46:53 GMT

Here is the response I received, just a few days ago:

I just got some more information from our person who is in contact with Epic Games. They let me know that we are waiting for Epic to update their plugin to include the latest version of Archicad. Sounds like we are expecting it in the next couple of weeks.

Hope this helps.

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Rex Maximilian — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:15:46 GMT

Scott wrote:
Is Twinmotion Direct available for Archicad 24 and if so where is it? Thanks, Scott

It's not available yet. However, I would recommend not waiting for it and just proceed by saving out an FBX file from ArchiCAD (use the "Save As" Twinmotion) option from the 3D window. The previous direct links were very buggy at best and caused a lot of crashes.

Process:
1) Save out FBX file from ArchiCAD
2) Open new file in Twinmotion
3) Go to Import tab and bring in the FBX file
4) Save file as .tm file
5) Go back to ArchiCAD and make edits as usual
6) Resave FBX file replacing older version (of course use the same name)
7) In Twinmotion go to the import tab and select the FBX file that was originally imported and refresh
8 ) New ArchiCAD model will appear where old one was keeping all of the Twinmotion texture edits from before
9) This is basically a manual process of direct link, but without the crashes.

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Scott Bulmer — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 12:37:16 GMT

That process works great, thank you so much Rex~! Regarding Direct Link, I too was experiencing quite a bit of bugginess but thought it was my system, thanks also for confirming that issue. Scott

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Minh Nguyen — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 07:53:05 GMT

Hi All,

Thank you for your questions!

Although I do not have any official information from Epic Games about when Direct Link addon will be available for Archicad 24, I hope it will happen in the coming weeks!

Regarding the issue with Direct Link's unreliability, sadly, this is not the first time I came across this issue. Although I never had it, I believe this is system-specific. Unfortunately, the addon is developed entirely by Epic Games, therefore we cannot tell exactly what caused those crashes and errors. I hope with time, they will be able to develop a much more stable version of it!

If you have any issue with Direct Link, I would highly recommend reaching out to Twinmotion's support, that can be found here: https://twinmotionhelp.epicgames.com/s/?language=en_US.

Let me know if you have any further concerns!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:39:15 GMT

The TwinMotion direct link for AC 24 is available from Epic today:

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/twinmotion/plugins

EDIT: OK, so it says it installed, but in 24, it says to go back to the site to update the plug-in... Plugin in the 24 Add-Ons folder is dated July 8 after running this new installer. To be sure, I deleted that add-on and ran the plug-in update again... but got the same add-on (July 8 date) and the same warning on launching 24 that a new version of the 2020 direct link is available. Repeat forever... So, Epic either didn't really get this tested/working, or the error message is wrong...

It may be that the 2020.2 version of TwinMotion is required for the plug-in to work... that version is showing in the Epic Games Launcher. I have 2020.1.2 installed ... and it is so dumb that the TwinMotion app itself cannot notify us of updates. 😞 Will try that.

In spite of the error message, the model IS sent to 2020.1.2...

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:02:47 GMT

So, after 7 hours to download over my slow internet (why does Epic make even UPDATES be 18 GB in size - have they never heard of patches? grr) - Having 2020.2 has no effect on the message displayed by the 'new' AC 24 plugin - it tells me to go update on every launch, from the page where I just downloaded the plugin. These guys. 😞

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Carstenem — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:55:45 GMT

Thanks for the heads up saves me testing it out !

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:34:06 GMT

Carstenem wrote:
Thanks for the heads up saves me testing it out !

To clarify: it does seem to work for both 2020.1 and 2020.2 ... the issue is it displays a warning to update the plug-in every time AC is launched. Hopefully the update check error is the only bug / issue - so please DO test as you have some real models that could stress test it. 🙂

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Carstenem — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:35:28 GMT

Thanks Karl, I just noticed this yesterday and some people mentioned the same on the TM Forum.

It seems like you mentioned it, it is "just" an error message, the link seems to work so far but will look into it more, thanks.

Cheers Carsten

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Richard Morrison — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 06:29:32 GMT

I wonder if this is the result of having more than one version of Twinmotion installed? I discovered after "upgrading" to 2020.2, that I had multiple versions installed. It appears that "upgrading" just installs the new version. Uninstalling all but 2020.2 seems to let my system function normally. Not to mention freed up GB's of space.

To uninstall, you have to go the Epic Games Launcher, select the version you want to uninstall, then select "Uninstall" using the gear icon.

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 16:58:15 GMT

Richard wrote:
I wonder if this is the result of having more than one version of Twinmotion installed? I discovered after "upgrading" to 2020.2, that I had multiple versions installed. It appears that "upgrading" just installs the new version. Uninstalling all but 2020.2 seems to let my system function normally. Not to mention freed up GB's of space.

To uninstall, you have to go the Epic Games Launcher, select the version you want to uninstall, then select "Uninstall" using the gear icon.

Ahh, and grrr. I had simply deleted the 2020.1 folder, as there was no uninstaller visible there. Of course, Epic in its total weirdness would require me to use the Games Launcher to uninstall. (And then via a weird drop-down and then gear icon selection process. Bizarre.) At a total loss as to why nothing about Epic follows either Windows or Mac standards 😞

Presumably, I have preference files somewhere that I have to manually delete at this point...
Nope... deleting twinmotion.2020.1.plist and misc other lint does not get rid of the error message about the just-released plug-in being out of date. Again, it still seems to work... just the out-of-date error message seems to be the issue.

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 16:55:39 GMT

Hi,

How do I turn on the Direct Link in my Archicad? I was able to download the plugin, but I can't click on it (see attached).

Thanks,

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Jp1138 — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:32:53 GMT

arqbeatrizrossi wrote:
Hi,

How do I turn on the Direct Link in my Archicad? I was able to download the plugin, but I can't click on it (see attached).

Thanks,

I don´t know if this is your problem, but you must be in 3D view for it to work.

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

mikas — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:22:02 GMT

Sorry if this appears as an unnecessary question...

What version of Twinmotion for ArchiCAD 24 would be latest with fbx support? Or are they all at AC v24 fbx enabled? Maybe it's something from 2020 mid year, late 2020..

I could not find the exact information googling like 15 minutes or so, and I snapped and made a quick post asking you knowledgeable people.

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

Karl Ottenstein — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:23:02 GMT

@mikas wrote:

What version of Twinmotion for ArchiCAD 24 would be latest with fbx support? Or are they all at AC v24 fbx enabled? Maybe it's something from 2020 mid year, late 2020..

This thread has nothing to do with FBX. There are a dozen threads that are about FBX. Please do a search and post to one of those. 😉

Re: Twinmotion for Archicad 24

mikas — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:31:01 GMT

Well AC24 was the last to do fbx through twinmotion I guess. I know about demand for newly introduced fbx for AC too. But that's not what I am after with this question this time.

Like you said, there are dozens of threads about it, and I just can't find the version of twinmotion to download and install for AC 24 to get TM and FBX combination, preferably the latest of the combination.

I thought someone would just know it and tell me.

But yeah..