Datasmith Feature Requests

[pf_breton (Pierre-Felix Breton)]

@jkcameron

First off I wanted to say great job on the progress thus far with Revit and UE interop. Long time coming and it is finally here. Attending Unreal academy in Raleigh and super excited.

Autodesk recently added PBR support for materials in 2019.

I just recently converted our company materials library to reflect these new additions only to find these import into Unreal as Unsupported. Perhaps the Unreal team could modify Datasmith to work with these new materials templates? I was trying to determine what Datasmith didn’t like about the new materials; a specific map maybe or a setting but no matter what i change they always import as unsupported.

This is correct. The revit api gives us new hook to read that data but its something we have to add in our exporter. That is why you don’t see them exported at all: our exporter is currently ‘blind’ on it and we have to write extra code to support them.