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Materials Converter

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While TurboCAD supports these rendering engines: RedSDK, Visualize, TurboLux, and LightWorks. We've created an automated method of importing endered files and mapping their Render Attributes (i.e. materials, luminance, environments and render styles) to that of the other rendering engines.

LightWorks render of Tutorial - rendering of RedSDK without (on the left) and with (on the right) porting of attributes:

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Porting Options dialog is a part of TCW Open\Setup.

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Porting materials to Visualize:

  • If option ‘Use TurboLux's materials’ (1) is switched on, the TurboLux's materials will be converted to Visualize.
  • If option ‘Use RedSDK's materials’ (2) is switched on, the RedSDK's materials will be converted to Visualize.
  • If option ‘Use LightWorks's materials’ (3) is switched on, the LightWorks's materials will be converted to Visualize.
  • If option ‘Overwrite Visualize existing items’ is switched on, the existing Visualize attributes will be overwritten. This option is enabled only if option (1), (2) or option (3) is switched on.

Porting materials to TurboLux:

The example uses:

  • If option 'Use RedSDK materials' (1) is switched on, the RedSDK's materials will be converted to TurboLux.
  • If option ‘Use LightWorks's materials’ (2) is switched on, the LightWorks's materials will be converted to TurboLux.
  • If option ‘Overwrite TurboLux existing items’ is switched on, the existing TurboLux attributes will be overwritten. This option is enabled only if option (1) or (2) is switched on.

Porting RedSDK's attributes to LightWorks:

  • If "Enable" (1) is enabled, the RedSDK's attributes will be converted to LightWorks.

  • If "Overwrite LightWorks's existing items" is enabled, the existing LightWorks attributes will be overwritten. This option can be enabled only if option (1) is switched on.

RedSDK render (on the left), Lightworks render (on the right) after porting of attributes:

In TurboCAD, RedSDK rendered images are now more accurately and completely converted to a LightWorks rendered image with improvements to this tool in TurboCAD. Improvements include:

- Improved render styles conversion

RedSDK shader/property LightWorks shader
GI bounce and gather
Tone auto and brighten up
Sketch contour
UseGPU is On real time shaded

- Improved light-fall conversion

RedSDK intensity decay LightWorks fall-off
No decay Constant
Inverse linear Inverse no clamp
Inverse quadratic Isl no clamp
Inverse cubic Isl no clamp
Quadratic relative distance Isl
Inverse linear-quadratic Inverse
No decay (3ds Max) Constant
Inverse linear (3ds Max) Inverse
Inverse quadratic (3ds Max) Isl