3dway Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 (edited) Studio/Institution: None MentionedGenre: Residential ExteriorSoftware: Revit 2011 / Mental Ray + PhotoshopDescription: Hi everyone, I'm not an architect, I'm a technical guy. I'm doing this as a test of a residential Revit delivery method. Out Of The Box Mental Ray. Been struggling with getting the rendered MR materials to match the diffuse image maps. Had to do a lot of compensating in PS. I know, you see the watercolour filter. It's the new lens-flare. Happy to hear any constructive help on design, image, perspective... Thanks. Edited July 8, 2010 by 3dway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dway Posted July 6, 2010 Author Share Posted July 6, 2010 So, with a lull in Working Drawing production, I had the chance to continue experimenting with a Revit delivery method. I have to say that I am very unhappy with the out of the box RPC trees. They just look like gaussian noise to me. If anyone knows of good trees for Revit 2011 please let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dway Posted July 7, 2010 Author Share Posted July 7, 2010 Changed the RPC trees. Tried to find the best one. AUGI members tell me that Revit doesn't handle the RPC content at full resolution for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dway Posted July 7, 2010 Author Share Posted July 7, 2010 (edited) Changed RPC trees. Tried to NPR it a bit. Kind of blurry. Still working on getting linework out of Revit like printing a 3d view to a flat dwg from sketchup. Edited July 7, 2010 by 3dway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dway Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 tried to get better lines out of revit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevitGary Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Hard to tell what is going on in mental ray with that watercolor filter. I am assuming you are not using gamma settings. Use them if you are not set them to 2.2. . lots of discussion on this site about gamma do a search. I think you need to put the sun more to one side or more to the front for more contrast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dway Posted July 12, 2010 Author Share Posted July 12, 2010 Thanks for the lead. Please keep the good info coming. It will all get put to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dway Posted July 12, 2010 Author Share Posted July 12, 2010 RE Gamma, Are we talking the usual MR, or MR in Revit. It looks like they've crippled.... er made user friendly, MR within Revit. I don't seem to be able to find any way to control anything to do with gamma in the either the render settings nor the material dialogue. Gamma doesn't even turn up a result, searching the help. Its such a piss off when the preview of the material looks one colour, then it renders differently. I can't even go in and modify my sun. Next I'm going to see if it's possible to make an artificial light family that I can use as a sun - a la using an direct spot in max in the old days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevitGary Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 I dont know about rendering in revit. I do all my rendering in max. It would be odd if they took gamma out. You should be able to adjust the sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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