Here are before and after screenshots showing the little code I sued and how Material Index are renumbered after worksession update. But it would be great if anyone could shine some light on this issue and hopefully help enscape to resolve this long outstanding issue… So some questions here, does anyone know what Rhino or Enscape use Material Index for? And, would it be possible to force Rhino to not-renumber them? So, could this be a case of loss of the materials on enscape? After a bit of trying and error, I’ve noticed that Material Index do get renumbered everytime worksesion gets updated. Once that is done, those materials will appear in Enscape’s Material Editor.I’ve been doing some investing regarding this very well-known issue with Enscape on Rhino as outlined on the forum below.Įnscape seems to be completely clueless about this issue, so I decided to look into issues on technical levels.įirst, I suspected Object ID & Material ID, and as it turned out they are static and can’t be altered on worksession. Next, each Rhino material you wish to adjust must be selected and have its Type set to Enscape as shown in the image below. The first thing to know is that this feature only works with Rhino 6 and higher due to some technical limitations in older versions. Lighthouse Project Modeled in Enscape Introduction I only added the water (a large 3D box) and the Enscape assets, so you too can download this model and try these new features yourself if you wish! Be sure to click the link and take a look at the other models by this user some are free and the rest are reasonably priced when you consider the time it would take to model each item. To show off the new material editor in Rhino, I downloaded a free model from Turbosquid called Lighthouse on the artificial rock by user Shakudo. Check out the latest version here! Lighthouse model credit Update: A new version of Enscape is now available. This article will highlight the extended visualization opportunities now afforded Rhino users, thanks to this new Enscape feature. It is very much like the Enscape material editor already in SketchUp. With the recent release of Enscape 2.5, customers now have a Material Editor inside Rhino 6. One of the great things about Enscape is its consistency across the primary design platforms it supports: Rhino, Revit, SketchUp, and Archicad.