Render Revit Model with new Twilight Render Engine

[FletchMT]

Revit's render engine limits my 8 core machine to 2 threads Looks great, but...

I made this little tutorial, thought it may be helpful to all the talented Revit folks here...
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Revit to SketchUp to Twilight Render in 5 Steps
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There's a NEW RENDER PLUGIN FOR SKETCHUP called "Twilight Render" that for $59 intro price will render on ALL PROCESSORS in your machine - for no extra charge.

High quality, very fast, simple to learn...(in comparison to learning how to build a family properly in Revit for instance )

Tons of Material Templates, IES lights, HDR lighting, DOF, Auto-Clay Rendering, many Render Setting Presets, - pretty much all the advanced features you could want if you are an advanced render guru... + Biased AND 3 UnBiased Progressive render methods!

Intermediate users of SketchUp can learn to use it in 30mins or less with free video tutorials.

My favorite part is that you can use ALL THE PROCESSORS you bought when you paid for your computer. A Corei7 (8 threads) machine can be bought at NewEgg for $970 in the States! But Revit will limit its use to 2...

Here's a rendering I made with Twilight Render Plugin for SketchUp of a 1920s school auditorium renovation... (they wanted black back-painted glass)


Hope you can find this useful for one of your projects.

[truevis]

...Here's a rendering I made with Twilight Render Plugin for SketchUp of a 1920s school auditorium renovation... (they wanted black back-painted glass)...

Looks promising. What was the render time & 'puter hardware for that image?

[twiceroadsfool]

Looks promising. What was the render time & 'puter hardware for that image?

Looks like a great image. So thats a Revit model that went through this process? How much post was done in PS afterwards?

[iankids]

Hi Fletch,

Render looks good. I have used the demo version a couple of times now & I must say it is very easy to use (simpler than learning Kerkythea itself), and gives quite good results.

Even though twilight is very inexpensive, I am hanging out until Thea Render is available for demo, as, from what is posted in the forum, it looks like it will be sensational.

Ian

[FletchMT]

Even though twilight is very inexpensive, I am hanging out until Thea Render is available
Ian

Thea is a completely different engine (I'm on the Alpha team for Thea), and I have no idea when it will be available for commercial purchase... but can say not likely terribly soon...

Twilight is available today, is rock-bottom-cheap for such an incredible program, and is so fun to use that, well... it's up to you. If it were me, I'd buy both for this price... Thea will also have a completely different interface.

@True and Twice - it's been many moons since I did that image... it was early beta phase for Twilight Render... so can't really say. It was rendered in an Unbiased mode (progressive) overnight on a quad core at work. That quad cost $6000 three years ago, now I have 8 threads for $1000... great time to get a new machine.

Post processing for image above was just putting 2D people in using a Pshop plugin for RPCs, and some slight tone mapping/glow or something... basically this is straight Twilight output above.

I don't recall if that was a Revit model in the example pic. above, I have one that was certainly a Revit model rendered with Twilight here:

Only post-pro was some tone mapping / glow

[Scott D Davis]

Couple of things: Revit's Academy Award Winning mental ray rendering engine uses up to four cores, not two.

Secondly, by the time you get done exporting to DWG, importing into Sketchup, and reapplying all materials by layer to a sketchup model that probably won't handle large amounts of geometry as a DWG import without coming to a crawl, I could be done rendering in Revit, where all the materials are already applied and I simply hit the Render button.

They do look nice, but so do Revit's rendered images and I never have to leave my application.