rendering elevation views

[ray salmon]

how do you set up a view so that it is an orthographic elevation
so that you can render it...

rendered elevations views look really great on a set of plans.
r

[jwilhelm]

View, Orient, North south etc

only problem is that skys dont render in ortho views
but you can drop in a sky in a photoshop background layer

[ray salmon]

ok, that worked

I think you could huge wall behind the building and assign a sky image to it if needed
haven't tried tho....

personally, want to really want to do the renderings in 3dsmax...

r

[Mike Sealander]

Yeah, Max is better.

[SCShell]

Hey there,
Even easier.....save your rendered elevation as a PNG file. Then open a drafting view in Revit, import you favorite sky or background photo, then import your rendered PNG file. Play with them a bit to adjust and Voila! Just export it out as a JPG or PNG using Masking Regions to get rid of overhanging sky backgrounds etc.
Good Luck
Steve
Photoshop not required.

[sbrown]

Heres and example we did in revit. The - revit is without any background work, the -reduced is with the background work.

[jwilhelm]

One advantage to photoshop is you can apply filters
this one has a watercolor filter to soften it up a bit

[ray salmon]

wow nice renderings

just curious how did you do the spanish tile
it looks like it is modeled not just an image

r

[jwilhelm]

yes they are modelled w/ line line based tile family, its the only way to get a decent look, slows the model down like crazy but you can always turn them off