Links not rendering color in the cloud

[ChrisGamble]

On the left is a image of my linked roof rendered in the cloud. On the right is the image of the roof linked into the model. How do I get the cloud to render link colors?

[barthbradley]

Is the one on the right a rendering?  If, so I can clearly see the rendering settings are not the same between the two. The color differences could be related to different exposure settings, different Lighting settings, etc.  

[ChrisGamble]

No, the one on the right is a realistic view in the revit model. The one on the left is a cloud rendering. The exposure settings wouldn't drain the color of the roof so dramatically without it draining all the other colors also. So it appears that only the roof, which is a link, is not getting its color applied in the rendering. 

[ToanDN]

How does the roof look if you render the link directly?

[ChrisGamble]

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

If the rendered material is correct so you just need to edit the material with in your model to match it.

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

Keep in mind that you cannot override the materials in the host project unless you physically update the linked file material.  The linked file material definitions and assignments will determine the material appearance in the host project.

If you need to transfer Revit materials between projects use Manage > Transfer Project Standards > Materials.

[ChrisGamble]

Right, but the problem isn’t the material. The material is correct in its model, and also shows correctly in the model it’s linking in to. The problem is when I render in the cloud, the color definition is ignored for linked models. I am going to double check this by reversing the process. I’m going to render the roof model with the building linked in, in the cloud to see if the building links color is ignored.

[ChrisGamble]

The material was incorrect in my model actually. It shows correctly in the link but the material was showing gray in the material properties palette. Which is strange because multiple times I transferred the project standards materials and overwrote them so I figured that would change the material data but I guess not for whatever reason.