Questions about using Revit Rendering

[J_Lewis87]

Do many Revit users use Revit alone for rendering or use it as a base for Enscape, Vray, etc?  I'm just curious.  It's good but I'm not finding it to be great.  I like the realistic natural light but overall my renders tend to have a very dollhouse feel to them. I wanted to try Enscape BUT it's not supported by Revit LT.

Any advice on trees within Revit? The trees the come with Revit have that inherent flatness to them.

And I guess Revit has issues with rendering through glass and when one window looks to another window?

[mauricio_mssf]

Revit LT does not support plug-ins, so it cannot work with Enscape, Twinmotion or Lumion. They only work in the full version of revit.

These are very good renderers and in real time you can see the changes. Your renderings in Revit LT may not be as good as you want due to the metrial setting, texture quality, lighting. Enscape, twinmpiton and lumion are better, even if you have a good material setup.

But you can export your model as a .dwg and use it in lumion. The rendering quality in lumion is better than in revit. although it is not the best workflow, because you don't have the link model, what you change in the model you don't see in Lumion, because it's an exported model. and if you have to change it will have to export again.

Export Revit LT to Lumion 

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[J_Lewis87]

Thank you for the info!

I'd like to leave the thread open, though, to perhaps get some more answers about glass and trees.

[constantin.stroescu]

• You can render in Revit with good results, either rendering in your computer or in Autodesk Cloud ( if you want to make good rendering without blocking your computer)

To see some excellent renderings made in Revit , have a look at Autodesk Rendering Gallery:

https://gallery.autodesk.com/a360rendering/projects#filters=%5B%5D&sort=comments_count

You can find here a lot of very good renderings made entirely in Revit (see, for instance those made by Karam Baki )

• If you want to create in Revit, your own entourage families beside the RPC, then you can have a look at this older post on Revit Architecture forum( that's a screencast too there):

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/rpc-entourage-custom-make-in-revit-how/td-p/...

• You can also choose to use a Real Time Rendering program to obtain easy a good result (Twinmotion, Lumion, Enscape).

I am using , for instance , Twinmotion from Epic Games . For the moment both Twin Motion and Unreal Engine from Epic Games a free to use.  You can Export your 3d model to .fbx  format and open then in Twinmotion. Here you have a large library of objects and materials , including trees, people, cars, furniture....you can find on net a lot of images made in Twinmotion.... 

Here are some renderings made in Twinmotion :   

https://www.google.com/search?q=twinmotion+render&newwindow=1&rlz=1C1GCEA_enRO851RO851&sxsrf=ALeKk03JWMEcK2xWua8jybSIQNq3cD5T4g:1601142836935&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivsp7wsYfsAhX1mFwKHVOKB8MQ_AUoAXoECA0QAw&biw=1217&bih=648

[constantin.stroescu]

you can choose to  Export from Revit LT as  .fbx file , and this can be used in Twinmotion or in 3ds Max (where you can obtain a better rendering then in Revit)

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-lt/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/Revi...