why the render dosent show the material

[Anonymous]

i imported a 3d object ,but when i want to render that object,i cant see the model matterials
can u help me whit that?

[Anonymous]

How did you import it and are you able to change the materials in the imported object's parameter settings?

[Anonymous]

Three possibilities that occur to me:

If the import is 3ds the ambient light parameters for the internally defined materials are probably set to 0.00. I don't know why this happens but I get it consistently when importing from SketchUp.

If you are rendering in Lightworks it may be that the LightWorks material doesn't match the OpenGL.

You don't have the scene lit (ie no sun object in LW).

[Anonymous]

sdb wrote:
How did you import it and are you able to change the materials in the imported object's parameter settings?

I downloaded the object from here
http://www.archibaseplanet.com/download/6860f3fa.html

I can change the material, but it would never be the same as the original one

[Anonymous]

Matthew wrote:
Three possibilities that occur to me:

If the import is 3ds the ambient light parameters for the internally defined materials are probably set to 0.00. I don't know why this happens but I get it consistently when importing from SketchUp.

If you are rendering in Lightworks it may be that the LightWorks material doesn't match the OpenGL.

You don't have the scene lit (ie no sun object in LW).

I'll still work on it but i didnt get the answer

[Anonymous]

Another possibility is that you are lacking the texture, or you have it but it is not in the loaded libraries. I'm not sure why it would render black in this case unless that is the underlying color in LW.

More details would help to understand the situation. Like type of model, renderer used, library part edit window (screen shot), etc...

[Anonymous]

I think I have the same problem as you. But, I do not have the solution.
I suddenly have got the problem with an object I made myself, and after the problem occurred it also is the same with all the objects I load.
When I look at the object in the GDL-editor, the material is ok. The same happens with the objects I import. So it is only in the model the problem is.
I've tried to empty the cash, and remove the object I made, add it to the library again. Reload several times. Remove the object from the model. Change the material on the object. But it's still grey.
Help would be greatly appreciated.

[Anonymous]

Anne wrote:
So it is only in the model the problem is.
I've tried to empty the cash, and remove the object I made, add it to the library again. Reload several times. Remove the object from the model. Change the material on the object. But it's still grey.
Help would be greatly appreciated.

Under the Object's Default Settings dialog box, try checking "Use Object's Materials" if you haven't already. It may or may not work.

[Anonymous]

I 'solved' my problem in making a new project and copy elements, and then some objects, and another objects to it. I naturally had to load the objects into the library. The new project works as it should.
So I do not have a clue of what was actually wrong but it disappeared in this way.

[Anonymous]

I have exactly the same Problem from this model.
http://www.archibaseplanet.com/download/5667787e.html

It's the same website with the above user. The thing is I successfully downloaded and added other models, but some of them just won't load the textures. What is the problem? I tried drag and drop from my desktop to archicad and the I tried adding them to library. Nothing worked.

The curious thing is that the model that worked had many lines on object parametrs and the one that didn't work had only one.

How is this fixxed?

damn archicad is really difficult for simple things.