How to modify tint of material apperance ?

[jsanders]

With the new materials, I can't find a way to find the "tint" parameter.

I found that this parameter is a legacy parameter, and now the only way to change the colour of a material is to modify with photoshop the jpeg image and add a blue tint or grey tint, etc. This is extremely inconvenient for our company since not all modelers have photoshopped installed neither do they have the time or capacity to use it...

So how can one modify quickly the tint of a new material in Revit ? I'm looking for a material that has an image, a bump image, and a tint option, just like the legacy materials.

Thanks ! 🙂 

[ToanDN]

Create a new material from Generic asset should give you Tint control.

[jsanders]

Hi Toan, I can't find the tint option in the misc materials found in the generic library.

Any other ideas ?

[barthbradley]

"Tint" is located at the bottom of the Appearance Tab/Asset Properties.  Are you saying ALL your Assets are missing "Tint"?  

...crazy. I can't find one asset without "Tint". Maybe I didn't look hard enough.  

[jsanders]

As you can see in the screenshot I am already at the bottom of the appearance settings. In french "tint" is "teinte".

But nowhere is there an option to add a layer of additional colour that gives a tint to the original image. This was extremely useful to us and now is lost forever ? What is the workaround for this ?

[ToanDN]

Which appearance asset is it?  How about replacing the asset with a generic one?

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

Use a Legacy Asset. Those are the ones with the orange triangle in the upper-left corner of the thumbnail image. 

FWIW: 

Appearance Asset Properties | Revit 2021 | Autodesk Knowledge Network

[jsanders]

The screenshot is already of a generic non-legacy event

[jsanders]

I was told that the legacy materials aren't to be used anymore. Is there any negative point in using a legacy material ?

[barthbradley]

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@jsanders wrote:

I was told that the legacy materials aren't to be used anymore. Is there any negative point in using a legacy material ?

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That's not true. The distinction is that the new materials are PBR Materials.  

PBR Materials for Revit: What These Materials Mean and How You Can Use Them | Autodesk University

[ToanDN]

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@jsanders wrote:

I was told that the legacy materials aren't to be used anymore. Is there any negative point in using a legacy material ?

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By whom?  The negative is non-PBR but it does not out weight the benefit of having the Tint control.

[jsanders]

I see thanks a lot !

We use Enscape, and from what I've just researched PBR materials are compatible with Enscape and have a better render quality.

[barthbradley]

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@jsanders wrote:

Is there any negative point in using a legacy material ?

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Not to the millions who have legacy assets in their ADSKLIBs.  The negative would be if Autodesk got rid of them.  It would cause pandemonium.   😉