2d Images of People (entourage)

[kadmonkee]

is there an efficient workflow for creating 3d render quality images from a 2d image for use in a Revit 3d view?

I have render quality images (2d only) works great for elevations and sections only

the company is not willing to pay for RPC content.

thank you for any help 

[ennujozlagam]

Hello, you can check @Anonymous.estroescu post he shared 2d images sometime ago. Thanks 

[kadmonkee]

thank you but this does not help

the link is not associated to anything relevant.

[ennujozlagam]

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/people-for-elevation-and-section-views-in-re...

Kudos to him. Thanks 

[loboarch]

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@kadmonkee wrote:

the company is not willing to pay for RPC content.

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That is the issue here. RPC IS the way Revit handles this kind of thing.

Revit is shipped with basic RPC sample content so you can see how it works, but additional content must be purchased from Archivision. I suspect the number of hours you might spend in pursuit of an alternate solution would more than pay for the RPC content you need.

[RobDraw]

When I started the thread that was linked earlier, I came across a site that had a step by step guide to creating RPC content.

https://enscape3d.com/best-practices-custom-rpc-content/

[ToanDN]

Time or money, one must be spent.

You can spend time create images with alpha channel (TIFF or PNG) of people and place over the renderings in PhotoShop. Make a copy of each person, change the tone to back with transparency, skew it to make shadow. Once you have library, it can be done fairly quickly.

It is the '90 workflow, by the way.

[kadmonkee]

I agree Time and (or) money must be spent

money is the cost of operations so I am trying to convince the bean counters of the priority

thanks for the suggestion though (too much time for a maybe we'll build this)

[kadmonkee]

thanks for the update

I will review later

[kadmonkee]

thanks for the info I will review later

[kadmonkee]

exactly , at this point they are not willing to buy the subscription

trying to convince them of the need

thanks

[constantin.stroescu]

I often use custom families for entourage because I need non realistic people and trees . In the images from below there are two examples of this kind (black and white)

These families are made using 2d maped images ( I used Mass elements with curved surface having as material an image with cutouts that use the alpha mask of this image).

You have to be careful to rotate them so to be as possible perpendicular on the Camera axis. Your can make other items using the same work pattern.

this is an In Cloud Rendering:

and these in computer with High Screen and Ray Trace (Revit 2017)

the floor plan with entourage families and Camera

I attach the .rvt file , the Material Library and the bitmaps and their alpha masks.....good luck!

[constantin.stroescu]

the library and the bitmaps....