RAC 2009 Changing material colous on screen

[iankids]

Hi All,

Having downloaded and set up RAC2009 (remarkably smoothly as it turned out for me), I am having a minor weirdness which I am unable to figure out.

Materials in and existing project have all taken on different & in most cases darker colors. The attached jpg shows a section through a current project where the internal walls are plasterboard with a white paint finish.

As you can see, they are on screen as a mid grey colour.

I have check the material properties think that it may have something to do with the new rendering features and ensured that in every area I could find where a colour or material finish can be specified that the colour and or material is set to plasterboard - white in all instances.

I know it is early days for RAC 2009 and maybe even the gurus on the forum haven't had time to get their heads around the new stuff. Nevertheless, if someone has come across this and resolved it I would greatly appreciate any advice.

Thanks in advance,


Ian

PS First look at RAC2009 is very impressive - rendering is much, much better, dimensioning and steering wheel likewise. For me so far, two thumbs up

[PaperStreet SoapCO]

One thing that comes to mind for me is that the materials weren't transferred correctly to the mental ray materials - I had windows that were turning up solid grey in my 3D shaded views. Turns out they defaulted to the 'default' general material which was grey.

That might explain the grey colors - don't know about the others though.

[iankids]

Hi Chad

Thanks for the idea, I think I have checked all of that (but maybe missed something less obvious) attached is a screen capture of the materials settings for plasterboard.
The rendering tab is set to paint finish - matt white - flat wall surface.

Cheers,

Ian

[iankids]

This is getting weirder by the minute.

Attached are two jpgs. One shows the proposed ground floor and the other shows the proposed upper floor.

BOTH are using exactly the same floor type with exactly the same materials and settings, yet widely different color results.

I will lodge this as a support request & let you know what the result is. Hopefully it is something simple!!

Cheers,

Ian

[still.james]

i have the same problem, my existing floor plans are dark shaded where as my proposals look normal. cant figure out what it is

[iankids]

Solution is at hand.

Check out IRU69's resolution of the problem in thread: http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=78921

[sean.rinde]

IRU69's solution doesn't work for me. I tried all of the different sun setting and none of them brighten up the model. One building is nice and bright while the other with the exact same materials and sun settings looks very dark and is difficult to discern separate building elements.

Strangely the model suddenly went dark today. It was nice and bright yesterday.

Anyone's suggestions would be appreciated...