I’m used to the modeling approach of SketchUp, meaning I apply different materials to different faces of an object. From what I see here on the forum, people really do use material assignments “By Layer,” just like you described. So, if I have a wall that has one color on one side and another color on the other, in SketchUp I would simply paint each face of the wall with a different color. In Rhino, this also works, although it’s not as intuitive as in SketchUp, but Twinmotion doesn’t recognize these different material assignments on a single object coming from Rhino, unlike its integration with SketchUp.
Check out this topic: Objects with more than one material not working. Help?
@jerry.bakowski I’m glad to hear that you were able to adapt them to your work, I hope I can too. From what I’ve read here and elsewhere, you really either love or hate the Rhino + VisualARQ workflow Lol, and I really want to love it.
I’ve been worried about issues like the ones @mich.platter described. Does anyone have a solution for this situation? I think it won’t be a problem for now (for me off course), since I’m working on small projects and we don’t use multi-layered walls. But it could become an issue if bigger business opportunities come up.
Hello, @Toni_Osterlund . In some ways, I agree with you, but we can’t forget that there’s always a context. And my context right now is that of a broke recent graduate living in a developing country in crisis, like Brazil. If business keeps going the way it is, based on my calculations, I’ll only be able to afford the VisualARQ license by the end of the year. Everything has been losing value here, and even in the Architecture and Civil Engineering fields, piracy has unfortunately become very common. Not agreeing with that mindset, I’ve been looking for affordable or free software to do my work honestly. That’s when I discovered Rhino and, later on, VisualARQ. It took a lot of effort to save up for the Rhino license while I was still a student, and I’ve been using it ever since. That’s why I asked if it’s “worth it.” You can be sure that as soon as I’m more established in the market, I’ll be more than happy to support software created with such care, like VisualARQ.