Can we fix the inconsistencies between native and cloud rendering?

[jpinheiro]

Hey guys....

I am a huge proponent of the cloud rendering service and I do believe it could be the future of rendering.... But, the inconsistancy hurts.  More specifically when it comes articial lighting and bump maps...

Here are my examples:

http://therevitkid.blogspot.com/2014/02/autodesk-cloud-rendering-and-light.html

http://therevitkid.blogspot.com/2014/07/another-cloud-rendering-issue.html

As far as the bump maps....  In this post I show some techniques for glazing.  Unfortunately, if you look at the image, there is a weird affect on the cloud rendered glass versus the natvie rendered glass...

http://therevitkid.blogspot.com/2013/12/rendering-tip-simple-material-change-to.html

Here is a link to just the picture of glass:

http://therevitkid.blogspot.com/2013/12/rendering-tip-simple-material-change-to.html

Thanks!!!!

Jeff

www.TheRevitKid.com

[pdchughes]

Yes, the hot spots in self-illuminated materials has been an issue for us, as well.  I find if I reduce the luminance of the self-illumination material down to 100 or so and turn off transparency it helps, but does not resolve, the issue.  We've had to do much post-production in photoshop, which is disappointing, particularly because panoramas are not editable in photoshop.

I'd love to hear what others are doing as a work around, but I'd love it even more if the problem was resolved at AD360.

[hutchij]

Thanks for this feedback. 

For the visibility of the light sources - I agree we've let this go too long. I'll get this fixed right away. 

I'm asking the other team members to chime in on the other issues. . 

[bealem]

You can edit the Panoroma image in Photoshop by editing it's PNG files.

There are six 'base64' encoded PNGs, top/down/left/right/front/back, which you can 'save to disk' (using chrome).  Photoshop can edit these PNG files locally.  Once you've finished editing, based64 encode them, and paste them back into the html file.

It will require a little bit of HTML knowledge.

Would a tutorial be helpful?

[michael.hall]

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[SallyDong2005]

Hello Jeff,

We released a fix about light source visibility. Currently, cloud rendering support to hide the light source visibility consistent with Revit. Could you try it out? And please let me know if there is any problem.

[andrefernandes_77]

Is there ever some solution or workout on the light hot spots issue? I´d like to stop going crazy trying to solve it every time i have a self-illuminated material on the scene (often). I´ve been searching for solutions with no sucess on it.

[mluczak]

Try turning on a 'Section Box' in your 3D view. Don't know if this is an actual fix, but I had a view that started causing me some trouble and I noticed that the view no longer had a section box turned on. Once I turned it back on, things cleared up quite substantially.

[mwaraya]

year 2017.. with revit 2016, im still having problem with self-iluminated materials (hot spots problem)...