Rendering in Revit

[lhanyok]

I have to make some renderings of a Revit model for a presentation to a design review panel. I've already done it with some mild success, but I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for where I could find more information or tips on rendering within Revit.

Thanks!
Laura

[DanielleAnderson]

Go ahead and check out the AUGI revit forum about rendering specifically, and you can search for whatever you are specifically looking for.
Rendering (especially with accurender in Revit) is one of those things that just takes time to figure out - in terms of style, etc. If you have specific questions, post them and you'll probably get more of a response. 8)

[dhurtubise]

If you want my personnal opinion. Export the model to VIZ/MAX and render there

[nole]

Hi there!
I like combination: modeling-designing in Revit, visualization (non-photorealistic) in SketchUp. Huge SketchUp's plus is a real-time rendering.
For photorealistic rendering MAX/VIZ are one of the best choices.

[lhanyok]

I would like to export to VIZ, but I am not being given the time to do a full photorealistic rendering. My biggest problem right now is with rendering elevations. Through some forum posts I learned how to set up the view and everything, but the rendering just looks really flat as compared to the perspectives. Is this just the nature of rendering elevations in Revit, or are there some modifications I should make? I have attached two partial images, one of the elevation and one of a perspective. Any comments would be welcome. Thanks.

[DanielleAnderson]

I've yet to work with a client who will pay for the extra time to export and render, but I've gotten decent - albeit not perfect - results in Revit without too much effort. The attached is just a test render I ran on a current project that is still very early on in schematics - it uses about 3 materials, but it gets the point across and I'd say it's about as good as you can get with simple schematic-level in revit. Good luck and post us an example of what you've been playing with.

[dhurtubise]

Here's a draft made by Dwayne Ellis from a Revit Project i provided him for testing purpose.Took him only a few mins to get that done. I think it's definitely worth the extra step.
Comments are welcome :-)

[dellis]

...and most of the those minutes were for rendering!! :-)


Dwayne

[Dimitri Harvalias]

So Daniel,

that rendering was done in Viz/Max from the Revit model?

[Andre Baros]

I would like to export to VIZ, but I am not being given the time to do a full photorealistic rendering. My biggest problem right now is with rendering elevations. Through some forum posts I learned how to set up the view and everything, but the rendering just looks really flat as compared to the perspectives. Is this just the nature of rendering elevations in Revit, or are there some modifications I should make? I have attached two partial images, one of the elevation and one of a perspective. Any comments would be welcome. Thanks.

A flat elevation of a flat will look flat, I've found that the best way to help this out is with vegetation and entourage. A few trees with shadows cast across the building go a long way. I also like to add a gradient sky.

[lhanyok]

A flat elevation of a flat will look flat.

Thanks for the response, I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. The trees and sky will be coming once I'm happy with the elevation.

[dhurtubise]

Exactly, it's a Revit model out to DWG then into VIZ

[lhanyok]

I decided to stick with Revit for rendering - the project manager is fine with the quality for the type of presentation we have. However, I now have this mysterious shadow (which was not there 3 hours ago) at the base of my building, wrapping all the way around. It appears in all views. Any ideas on what could cause this? Although I've made a few minor modifications to the model and rendering setting, I don't think any of them should have made this effect. There are no other objects in the model that would be casting a shadow on the building. I have attached a portion of the rendering if anyone has any suggestions on how to correct this. Thanks!

[lhanyok]

As it turns out, what I thought was a shadow was actually a reflection of the ground plane. Once I turned that off it was fine.

[Andre Baros]

Thanks for adding that, because I didn't have a clue what could cause that.

[DanielleAnderson]

I decided to stick with Revit for rendering - the project manager is fine with the quality for the type of presentation we have. However, I now have this mysterious shadow (which was not there 3 hours ago) at the base of my building, wrapping all the way around. It appears in all views. Any ideas on what could cause this? Although I've made a few minor modifications to the model and rendering setting, I don't think any of them should have made this effect. There are no other objects in the model that would be casting a shadow on the building. I have attached a portion of the rendering if anyone has any suggestions on how to correct this. Thanks!

Looks pretty good, although I would increase the number of transparency bounces from 3 to about 20 so that the glass doesn't have that ominous dark-opaque quality to it.

[patricks]

When in elevation, the only way you can perceive depth is through shade and shadow. You already have that on your elevation, so I think the only other things would be to add maybe trees or people as someone else posted, or maybe change the windows to be something other than pure white.