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AccuRender Materials

AccuRender materials consist of one or more base materials. For each base

material you can set attributes such as color, reflectivity, transparency, index

of refraction, bump maps, and image maps.

The Procedures list displays the simple materials that combine to form your

final material definition and the rules for combining them. For simple

materials, there is only one item in the list: Base. For complex materials, a tree

indicates how the components combine. For example, the marble procedure

consists of a Base material and a Vein material. While the Base material is

considered a 'procedure', it is translated because it's at the bottom level of the

material. The Vein material is ignored.

AccuRender materials that are applied to objects in the Revit drawing are

translated when you link or import the drawing to 3ds Max. If the texture

used for the material is a digital bitmap like a BMP or JPG file, the texture will

be included with the material.

However, if the texture being used is one of the Procedures, the texture is not

translated when the drawing is brought into 3ds Max. In these cases, you will

see only the diffuse color.