Using Revit 2021 and Enscape 2.8.0 Preview 3, Bump Maps not working

vertigo1 · May 7th 2020

Title says it all. Bump Maps have no effect on the Enscape rendering in Revit 2021.

siman406 · May 7th 2020

I am using Revit 21 with the latest 2.8 preview 3 and bump maps seem to be working for me.

Demian Gutberlet · May 8th 2020

Quote from vertigo1

Title says it all. Bump Maps have no effect on the Enscape rendering in Revit 2021.

Thanks a lot for your post!

Any chance you can send me a screenshot of your Appearance tab, of the actual material itself? Where you've setup the material with bump and such?

vertigo1 · May 8th 2020

Left side of the image is realistic view in Revit, middle of image is Enscape render, right is material settings.

Reinstalled Enscape to see if something was wrong with the install, and this is still the result.

MKruk · May 9th 2020

Try with .jpg file instead of .png for bump. This trick helped me with one of the older Enscape builds.

vertigo1 · May 12th 2020

Quote from MKruk

Try with .jpg file instead of .png for bump. This trick helped me with one of the older Enscape builds.

This worked. Thank you!

Clemens Musterle · May 12th 2020

Thx, for your report. Usually .png files should work fine as bump maps as well. Could you share this file in particular with us, so we can have a look?

vertigo1 · May 12th 2020

.png files have worked with previous versions for me with no problems. It has been awhile since I have been on a preview version though. None of the .png bump maps were working. Opened them in photoshop and saved as .jpg, remapped and they worked fine.

Don't believe it was anything specific to any certain png because the ones in the autodesk library were behaving the same way as the the ones in my custom library.