How to Make a Black and White rendering

[yanyan77]

my manager want a black and white building rendering from revit, a cool one.
but i only know render to color one and change to back and white in PS, which is not cool at all.
does anyone has some tricks?
thanks

[timothy.bungert]

Short of changing ALL of your material settings to not have color (not worth the time) I can't really think of any way to generate a black and white rendering.

EDIT: I suppose you could also use the settings under the Adjust Exposure button on the Rendering Dialog box once the rendering is completed. Photoshop is going to give you far more control over your image quality and contrast than those tools though.

Honestly, I'd say your best bet is probaly to take it into photoshop and edit it using the black and white conversion tools available to you there. If its a dramatic look that you're after, try messing with the Levels or Curves adjustments to give it higher contrast.

[jeffh]

You might be able to create a new phase in the project and create a view looking at that pahse and then all of the model will move into and "existing" state and will be assigned the material you define in the phase setting dialog (graphic overrides) dialog.

the attached example images are of the exact same wall in 2 views set to different phases. The Revit phasing functionality has done all of the material "remapping" for me.

[Scott D Davis]

Yep, phasing with Phase over-rides is totally the way to go!

[trombe]

my manager want a back and white building rendering from revit, a cool one.
but i only know render to color one and change to back and white in PS, which is not cool at all.
does anyone has some tricks?
thanks

Is this not good enough ?
Straight out of Revit, using only the Exposure controls, no post production just save and go.
regards
trombe

[Phillip_Miller]

Yep, phasing with Phase over-rides is totally the way to go!

Hi Scott. That is cool. I can now get everything Rendering White. How can I get the glass rendering as glass.

Cheers

Phillip

[patricks]

You might be able to create a new phase in the project and create a view looking at that pahse and then all of the model will move into and "existing" state and will be assigned the material you define in the phase setting dialog (graphic overrides) dialog.

the attached example images are of the exact same wall in 2 views set to different phases. The Revit phasing functionality has done all of the material "remapping" for me.

But there's no material, texture, surface, etc. on that 2nd version.

[jeffh]

But there's no material, texture, surface, etc. on that 2nd version.

I was under the impression from the original post, a "chipboard" type generic model was what the desired effect was. If you just want a b/w version of the color rendering, then use the exposure controls and set the saturation level to 0. This will give you a grayscale image. Or you can take the color rendering and manipulate in a photo editor.

[yanyan77]

I was under the impression from the original post, a "chipboard" type generic model was what the desired effect was. If you just want a b/w version of the color rendering, then use the exposure controls and set the saturation level to 0. This will give you a grayscale image. Or you can take the color rendering and manipulate in a photo editor.

thanks. i will try this. because we still want to keep the material and textures

[ron.sanpedro]

my manager want a black and white building rendering from revit, a cool one.
but i only know render to color one and change to back and white in PS, which is not cool at all.
does anyone has some tricks?
thanks

What is wrong with changing is PS? A rendering in Revit is functionally static anyway, why worry about 10 minutes worth of post processing? And the rendering likely needs to go on a board anyway, which means probably post processing for contrast correction relative to the print device.
One thought, render in color in Revit, then have the manager look at the view screen of a digital camera pointed at the monitor. Give em black & white, sepia, vignette effects, whatever the camera is capable of.

Gordon