vray for revit - are we doomed?

[simonm]

Is this the beginning of the end for us freelancers?

http://www.v-ray.com/revit/

 

This will make it easier and easier for architects to handle the visualisation - its good for them but not so good for the freelancers. I know its early days yet but give it 5 years and only the strong business/freelancers in archviz will survive....

 

thoughts?

[Justin Hunt]

Yes we are all doomed, run for the hills the sky is falling AAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 

All it will mean is that they will be able to do crappy renders, faster.

 

I am hoping that one day Vray for Max will support architectural materials and save us the headache and time having to translate them by hand.

[Francisco Penaloza]

All it will mean is that they will be able to do crappy renders, faster.

correct.

 

I am hoping that one day Vray for Max will support architectural materials and save us the headache and time having to translate them by hand.

me too

[harryhirsch]

we had that topic already

http://forums.cgarchitect.com/78820-here-comes.html

[Nils Norgren]

we had that topic already

http://forums.cgarchitect.com/78820-here-comes.html

 

This thread has been happening at least once a year for the last 12 years on this forum...

 

http://forums.cgarchitect.com/6184-future-architectural-visualization.html

 

-Nils

[Scott Schroeder]

I guess I'll have to start showing my pixels for money.......

 

I'm getting too old for this.

[heni30]

The software doesn't make a good rendering. If anything it will show more clearly how mediocre a rendering is.

Edited December 3, 2015 by heni30

[John Dollus]

To paraphrase Fallout:

'Rendering. Rendering never changes....'

 

Admit it, you just read that with the voice of an apocalyptic wanderer in your head.

 

As soon as the CEO notices 12 Revit techs standing in the breakroom waiting on renderings while the Struct and Elec engineers are demanding central file updates for their 60 story office tower, they will start calling you again. There are far more tangible reasons this could affect you in a positive way as opposed to negative.

[Nic H]

hopefully it makes decent renderings more accessible and ups the general level of quality

[Francisco Penaloza]

is good to have more options, yes I am also curious about the integration, REVIT is not Max or Maya, there is so many part and people interconnected that even only doing CAD drawings problems pop all the time. IMHO V-RAY for REVIT is too much, there should be a simple nice one click solution, that's all what is need it in a software like this. But oh well.

 

The way REVIT works, GI and exposure will show all the gaps and wholes than for regular DDs and CDs are "OK"

in a perfect world, I would say this only will make the designers be more careful while modeling so when I receive a model for final render will looks better... but we all know that won't happen, it can't.

 

If you feel treated because some one else will learn your secret Kung fu, then you are in the wrong business really.

[dpizarrom]

I've never been a fan of this way of thinking. Revit, V-Ray, 3ds Max,... are all just tools. If you think you will lose clients because of a new tool or technology maybe it's because you are not doing a good job and need to work a little bit more on your skills.

[simonm]

yeah nice one David

Good skills or not so good skills - your architect who could never produce any 3D stills all of a sudden can and you think the arch viz community wont be affected because you have phenomenal skills? Its not always about your skills - more and more clients these days are settling for sub standard work because they dont want to pay the $$. Remember, we are a the end of the chain so its only a matter of time before the industry is affected.

 

 

I've never been a fan of this way of thinking. Revit, V-Ray, 3ds Max,... are all just tools. If you think you will lose clients because of a new tool or technology maybe it's because you are not doing a good job and need to work a little bit more on your skills.

[Justin Hunt]

so far I am quite impressed with the integration. I haven't delved too deep yet. RT is a little quirky but usable. The automatic material conversion is usable. So far we have been able to spit out renders far quicker than what we could before, and better quality too.

 

I don't see this being rolled out to the whole office (no need) but I do see a few key members using it. At the end of the day it comes down to licence cost v production benefit.

[Chris MacDonald]

The reality is that whilst development renders you can get away with looking crap (and I'd quite happily palm off that work to someone else), the final ones really wont ever be up-to-par. I don't know a single person in my office that uses Revit and has the necessary skills and more importantly time to create production quality 3D visuals. Hell, I know 3D guys that don't have the skills to!

 

They are employed to do Revit, and technical drawing, in the same way that I am employed to do 3D. Any time taken out of doing a section, or foundation detail or door schedule is wasted time for them.

 

It's a good thing in my opinion because it means all of the crappy jobs ("we've moved the door 150mm, can you re-render everything", and "we want to see 10 colour options on the carpet") will now be handled quite easily within teams. It might look crap, but who cares? I don't have to deal with it!

[Graphite]

This whole thread made me LOL. If anything, its just going make a whole lot of mediocre designers think they're capable of renderings "high detail" images. We should be more worried about that.