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can anyone assist me in adding an image to the render appearance library. I obtained the images from Steel Select website - they are images of colorbond steel roofing & cladding such as custom orb & trimdek. the images are Bitmaps. thanks in advance Leeroy
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to add an image to the revit library you first need to find the location of where the image files are stored. C:\Program Files\Revit Architecture 2009\Data\Rendering\assetlibrary_base.fbm\Materials\Generic Then you need to add in your image. Once you have your new image in that location you need to go to materials under the settings pull down, when this opens up you will need to create a new material and under the render appearance you will browse to you image file. when you choose you image file you have a couple options to change the size and scale so all that will be up to what you want it to look like.
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every time I try to repath the render image to the new jpg for the new material it says 'invalid image file' in the image window. any ideas?
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i should add that the image file i am using is a jpg from the accurender material library. there used to be all these nice marble and alabaster materials but the new version of revit (2009) seems to have omitted them all except for a couple that have a grid on them which i absolutly do not want.
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Well, ace times I have homesicknesses of the OLD accurender (200 , i think, in the OLD times, it's more easy to create and control the materials (Textures), to apply to the materials, but, in this version we don't have a "USER" library to SAVE the materials to use in others proj. but...
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I understand about the library and I am doing this all within a project. I just cannot get the JPG to apply to the new render material. I followed these directions exactly: "to add an image to the revit library you first need to find the location of where the image files are stored. C:\Program Files\Revit Architecture 2009\Data\Rendering\assetlibrary_base.fbm\Materials\Generic Then you need to add in your image. Once you have your new image in that location you need to go to materials under the settings pull down, when this opens up you will need to create a new material and under the render appearance you will browse to you image file. when you choose you image file you have a couple options to change the size and scale so all that will be up to what you want it to look like. " but when I get to the 'browse to image file' and choose my JPG, I get a message that says invalid image file. Can we not create our own materials at all in 2009? if not that is rediculously dumb because the render appearences included in the package are incredibly limited. it seems like no other users have a similar problem when creating materials and I can't figure out what I am doing differently than everyone else.
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Well COLIN, honestly , some times i don't follow that rules, i "Scan" or "Catch" an image of google and save them in a folder, so when i must use them i go to the materials, duplicate one by default, then i gonna browse the image at that folder, and i change the Image file, the reflectivite, bump, transparency and so one, i don't put the image in "C:\Program Files\Revit Architecture 2009\Data\Rendering\assetlibrary_base.fbm\Materials\Generic", i create a folder with MATERIALS and then create a sub-folders with "Glass", "fire", "Concrete", "Stone" and so one...
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Hey guys I have figured out what the issue is with render images missing. This is caused by the simple fact that when families are created and then imported in REVIT they often carry with them images, such as in my case I imported an office desk setup with a computer screen. The computer screen had a sky image imbedded within. However, every time I would go to render a scene that the computer screen showed up in I would get an error saying Vectorsky.jpeg image missing. After many hours of searching through the Render materials library I stumbled across the the jpeg file. After deleting the file the error has gone away. Let me know if this was any benefit to you. Happy Holidays
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