And here it comes...

[M V]

Chicken Little says that the industry is falling! Rumor is that V-Ray for Revit drops by end of the year. Thoughts?

 

[Chris MacDonald]

I'd love to see you load a high res car, or tree into Revit. Or UV map something.

[notamondayfan]

Ohh no no no, please no, we're totally screwed, run for the hills! Pile up our desktops and build a fire, we won't be needing them when we're flipping burgers in McD's!

[Scott Schroeder]

 

I say good! I'm very happy Vray is coming to Revit. That will offload our need to constantly re-do those change this 15 times design renderings and let the Revit teams just fire those off. Now I can start to really focus on creating marketing renderings while the Revit teams handle design renderings.

 

Plus, I ultimately respect anyone who uses the Revit material editor and doesn't want to go jump off a building somewhere.

Edited August 5, 2015 by VelvetElvis

[Corey Beaulieu]

This shouldn't be any different than an Arch firm who has purchased the Revit/Max combo and can already use file linking to run Vray RT....

 

It sounds to me that it should make in-house stuff a lot easier, and possibly our own in that designs may come tpo us more resolved and/or prepared for Vray- even if they aren't fully ready to go.

[Francisco Penaloza]

 

ha ha ha, great movie... well not really but pretty funny ha ha ha

 

I also think is for better, I usually receive such crappy REVIT models because the designer is not thinking about shadows and reflections. most of the wall, ceilings, floors are not joint or there is gaps between part of the models and many many other problems that you only see them when you render.

 

Now to be honest this is nothing new, Mental Ray is already on REVIT and you can even use "The cloud" to render if your PC can't do it, and still I don't see this "killing" Arch Viz industry. In my company I think there is one 1 architect to does renderings in REVIT. all other 400 come to us always.

There is a big difference between those design rendering and final marketing renderings/animations. Besides modeling tool in REVIT are very limited.

 

The question how the materials will work. this mean V-Ray now read Autodesk materials??? Autodesk finally give up and share the code??

 

wait and see.

[Morne Erasmus]

The question how the materials will work. this mean V-Ray now read Autodesk materials??? Autodesk finally give up and share the code??

wait and see.

 

I would speculate that if it happens, it would probably be the vrmats Materials which are the universal mats in VRay 3. Basically you can open and render these mats, in Sketchup, Max, Maya etc without having to convert anything in the mats.

[Chris MacDonald]

I would speculate that Autodesk will not share that, because they would rather everybody used their proprietary software.

 

I would also like to echo the sentiments of everyone else here, it's a non issue really that VRay has been ported to Revit. They've had Mental Ray in Revit for years, and Maxwell too - yet I've never seen anything noteworthy being churned out of it and you can't blame the render engines for that as they are both incredibly capable.

 

I'll be glad that architects can do their own renders without hassling me to update the Revit link every day because something minute but oh-so-important has changed. This can only be a good thing.

Edited August 6, 2015 by Macker

[harryhirsch]

No worries guys, this is more about the so called ''BIM war'' and Revit vs. Archicad. (Last year Archicad got Cinema4Ds Cinerender)

[Justin Hunt]

mentalray in Revit is just too slow to be productive. To get decent results can take 10X or longer than what it would take in Max. Along with that it is really clunky to get under the hood to tweak materials and render settings.

 

I vray can overcome those limitations it can only be a good thing.

[Devin Johnston]

This is always funny to me, these companies make it seem like creating a nice rendering is quick and easy. There's so much that they are leaving out of the equation from material creation to lighting setups not to mention that the machines most people are using for BIM aren't really great for rendering. I had this fear a long time ago when ArchiCAD introduced their rendering solution, the marketing renderings looked great and everyone was super excited that they'd be doing their own photo real renderings. After about a year I realized I had nothing to worry about, most designers are too busy to invest the time in learning how to do even a moderately nice rendering. Even though the software is capable of doing them it doesn't mean people will be motivated to use it, especially when they have people that already specialize in this work.

[John Dollus]

That video portrays more of what Hollywood thinks an architect does as opposed to the reality. Most firms can barely manage to coordinate the central files among their core disciplines let alone worry about trying to sort out why things look 'clunky' in 'the Vray'.

If they could achieve the desired result with Vray, they would already be doing it with Mental Ray.