HELP! TRYING TO CHANGE OBJECT COLORS TO APPEAR IN SHADED VIEW BY ELEMENT, NOT BY VIEW.

[Kristeneudyarchitecture]

I AM WORKING ON A NEIGHBORHOOD ANIMATION.  IT WILL NOT BE REALISTIC, BUT WOULD LIKE TO SHOW MATERIAL COLORS TO STUDY ADJACENCIES.  I AM LINKING MULTIPLE MODELS INTO ON OVERALL SITE PLAN.  IN THE LINKED MODELS, I AM CHANGING THE MATERIALS SO THE APPEAR THE COLOR THEY ARE INTENDED TO BE IN THE OVERALL NEIGHBORHOOD MODEL.  ON MOST MATERIALS IT WORKS.   I AM STRUGGLING TO GET SOME OF THE TRIM PIECES AND NESTED ELEMENTS TO WORK.   ON THE AUTODESK WEBSITE THEY SUGGESTED OPENING THE MATERIALS DIALOG BOX AND UNDER THE GRAPHICS TAB SELECT THE "SHADED" OPTION AND CHANGE COLOR THERE.  I DO NOT HAVE A SHADED OPTION IN REVIT LT 2023.  WHAT AM I MISSING??   THANK YOU FOR ANY SUGGESTIONS.  

[barthbradley]

Are you sure it wasn't referring to the Visual Style? 

[Kristeneudyarchitecture]

o change the graphic properties of a material

1.

Click Manage tab Settings panel (Materials).
2. In the Material Browser, select the material to change in the project
materials list.
3. In the Material Editor panel, click the Graphics tab.
4. To change how the material looks in shaded views (such as 3D views
and elevations), under Shading, do the following:
- If you want to use the realistic appearance to represent the
material in shaded views, select Use Realistic Appearance for Shading.
Revit calculates an average color for the realistic appearance and
uses it to represent the material in 2D and 3D views whose Visual Style
setting is Shaded.
- Click the color swatch. In the Color dialog, select a color.
- For Transparency, enter a value between 0% (completely opaque) and
100% (completely transparent), or move the slider to the desired setting.

[barthbradley]

Have you opened those families and checked the name of the materials their geometries' material parameters are assign to?  

[barthbradley]

"Shading" not "Shaded".

[Kristeneudyarchitecture]

I did. I even assigned a new material parameter to one of the families.
In some cases the color assigned will not show up in the family editor but
will show up correctly once uploaded into the model and in other cases the
opposite. I keep taking the same approach for assigning materials to the
objects but yields different results depending on the object.

[barthbradley]

I don't understand. The Family Material Properties have no bearing on Project Material Properties.  If the Family is using a Material named "Red" in the Family and it's red, but in the Project "Red" is blue, then the family will be blue in the Project.  

[kostask_oionei]

Hi,

Maybe you have to clear overrides from Visibility Graphics or Right Click -> Override Graphics in View.

When there is a pattern in the surface pattern overrides the shading of the materials.

Check also if there are any filters in Visibility Graphics and the visibility graphics in Revit Links tab.