Render Night / Dusk without blue sky?

[robg]

Hi all,

I am trying to produce a dusk / late evening render on the Cloud, which I'm sure I used to do on previous Revit's which gave a orange/pink sunset style sky.

I have tried various times of day and all I can get is a blue sky like the image below even when the time is very late, or a pitch black one.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Settings are:

Summer Solstice 22.00 - Location is set accurately

Sun: 51, Ambient Light: 23, Shadows: 32.

Still Image, Final, Maximum Image Size, Native Exposure, JPEG

Thanks!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

You can set the background from an image by going into the Graphic Display settings and under Background upload an image. This way you can just use any JPEG that has the type of sky you like.

Hope this helps.

[robg]

Thanks Amy,

We were aware of this new solution for Revit and from the looks of things this will be the way forward for dawn/dusk renderings!

We're sure there was a way to get a sunset style render in previous Revit versions with the old render engine; which produced a relatively accurate sky interpretation for that time of day and gave all the correct shadows and tones etc for a sunset/sunrise.

Thanks again for your reply.

[stephenc9VRE3]

I am having this same issue. I realize I can upload my own sky as a background image, but is there no way to "unlock" Revit's sky to rotate and change with the orientation of the sun?

[loboarch]

Here is an attempt I made in Revit using 2 different renderings combined together. I did one rendering at 7:30AM to get the sunlight on the building. I saved this out with a transparent background.

I did another render at 2:30AM and turned the exposure way up to get some light in the sky but still got the kind of graded sunrise look to it.

Then i combined the 2 images in Photoshop to get the final effect. It is not a perfect sunrise/dusk kind of image, but it feels reasonably passable as that.