Improve render representation in BIM360 Autodesk Viewer

[pascal.storck]

Idea to improve the render engine in the BIM360 Autodesk Viewer.

The render within the InfraWorks Desktop application gives a much better representation of the actual model (image 1).

This is not possible within the Autodesk viewer, eventhough there are over ten different 'styles'.

[roskirko]

This is a service that is used by others, it seems, and is not unique to Autodesk.

I found this site: www.e-model.io/en/

In there is a Models sub-category. When a model is double-clicked on, the same viewer used by Autodesk comes up.

[mark_kauffman]

The Autodesk Viewer is a WebGL based viewer so it can display "better", but I believe this really comes down to how the materials are translated from IWx to the viewer shader system. Perhaps, IWx and all of the Autodesk products should move to a BRDF/PBR paradigm for material representation. WebGL can display these sorts of material shaders quite effectively/realistically and if there were a common shading model, perhaps the representation of the materials would be closer to a 1:1 conversion from one platform to another.