Revit Master Planning Renders

[kevinyoung1]

Hi,

This is my first post, but I've been reading/browsing the forums for a few weeks now. My question has to do with how to utilize Revit in order to produce high quality master plan renders.

 

Currently, the structure of how our office designs and then implements images takes place through Revit. There is extensive discussion about beginning use of 3DSMax. The reason for using Revit for not only architectural design but also master planning is because it allows us to link topography and building design into a larger site plan within Revit. If done cleanly enough, the results are reasonably good.

 

What I am hoping for is a method for producing high quality images (photo-realistic or as close to photo-realistic as i can get). Would taking a large Revit model which includes site topography and buildings into 3DSMax make sense? Or should we continue to render in Revit? I find renderings straight from Revit to look very stagnant, and I am hoping there is a way, outside of extensive Photoshopping, to get good master plan images, such as aerial views, landscape views, etc.

 

A good example, if you want to look at one, is on Perkins+Will's website:

http://www.perkinswill.com/work/desertcreat-college-and-training-facility.html

 

The first image looks like a rendering and it'd be fantastic to know how they did that.

Edited May 7, 2013 by kevinyoung1

[Jason Matthews]

If you want decent renderings you need to look into using 3DMax or some other program. While I have seen some decent renderings inside of Revit, they are not nearly as nice as renderings out of Max. Most likely, the rendering you are referring to was done in Max with Vray. I would definitely look into Max. There is a workflow from Revit to Max that people are using called "Suite Workflows" from Revit to 3D Max Exterior Rendering. This is a new function inside Revit 2013. The other workflow would be to export the Revit model via FBX and link into Max.

[RevitGary]

Export / link revit models into max. I use mental ray. You can use mental ray proxies for the foliage. Works great.

[Sauger]

There is also Octane Render addon for Revit out soon, with geometry proxies and instancing, and support for Archivision RPC planned.

I use the Max plugin, but if the Revit addon works as claimed it will be very useful.

[Brian Myers]

One of my favorite programs of late is Lumion. http://lumion3d.com/revit/

You may decide to not get it, but it's incredibly fast and may be a good solution for you.

[aaronrumple]

For the realistic landscape, vray, vray scatter/vray forest pro and you'll be done in no time. (Or user the paint tool to paint vray proxy's on the topo....)