Materials by layer in Viz Render?

[tedg]

Hey everyone,
I couldn't find a thread on this so I'm just going to ask.
I've used 3d Studio Max a LONG time ago, and in the recent past have used Accurender.
I'm not an expert in either.
I'm now in ADT 2006 with Viz Render and am trying to create a walk throuh a building I've modeled. It isn't an ADT entity, I created it using solid modeling. I'm used to being able to assign materials based on layers and I can't seem to be able to do it with Viz Render.

Does any one know if this can be done?

It seems to want me to assign materials to blocks, there aren't blocks.
The model file is made up of xrefs, but even those don't all show up in my materials tool pallette.

Am I better off trying to get Accurender to do this?
I find the Viz Render a bit tricky to work with and I have NO training in it.

Help.

[tedg]

And a related question regarding Accurender.
We have Accurender 3.1 and I loaded it on my system.

The command AR3 is supposed to invoke the program, but it didn't work.

Does anyone know why?
Is it not compatable with ADT 2006?

Thanks again

Ted

[tedg]

I was able to answer my first question.
Just in case any one else needs to know...
In the layers tool bar you can select all entities on the "current layer".
Then you can apply materials to your "selected" entites.

I still don't know why Accurender won't work on my ADT 2006.

Ted

[tedg]

And a related question regarding Accurender.
We have Accurender 3.1 and I loaded it on my system.

The command AR3 is supposed to invoke the program, but it didn't work.

Does anyone know why?
Is it not compatable with ADT 2006?

Thanks again

Ted

I answered my own SECOND question too,
I needed to download an update file for my Accurender 3.1 for ADT 2006.
Once I did that, it worked fine.

Thanks anyway.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi Ted

Thank you for posting back the answers / solutions to your particular issues / problems. I am sure other will benefit from such information in the future.

Mike