Rendering Revit vs Revit LT

[roscopeco2000]

I am after some advice, firstly is it posible to get higher quality renders out of full revit? I notice you have more options if you select a local render instead of the cloud option, does this equate to hight results? My second question is, in your opinion are the renders out revit high enough quality to use as final presentaion style renders. I turned the settings upto the maximum and used photoshop to enhance them. Even after this the results are good not but great. I am just trying to understand the limitations of its abilty. Do you guys just use a dedicated render such as Blender or 3D max?

Thanks for your help..

[Anonymous]

Don't have time to learn 3D Max or similar.   I use add-ins like Enscape or Lumion for rendering.  Enscape especially since I can modify something in Revit quickly after I noticed it was incorrect in Enscape and it automatically updates in Enscape.  No need to re-export the model.

[aRcHiTeCt.JM · Accepted solution]

.... you can get excelent results with the native REVIT 2019 rendering engine 

... why will you need more than this ? (100% REVIT 2019... no photoshop, no nothing, just REVIT)

[Viveka_CD · Accepted solution]

Hi @roscopeco2000

The rendering forum will be a good place to get additional feedback.

Rendering: Revit LT and Revit

See AKN help topics on Rendering

• Best Practices: Rendering
  When you use the rendering tool, the rendering engine uses complicated algorithms to produce a photorealistic image from a 3D view of a building model.

Related Concepts

• Exporting to 3ds Max
• About Realistic Visual Style
• Rendering an Image

Let me know if this helps. You are welcome to share a file to test or if you are looking for a workflow I can provide you with additional information.

Regards,

[dgorsman]

Rendering is a dark art, being not so much technical (e.g. "use ___ beam size") as it is artistic, in knowing what colors and materials to apply, how many/type/location of lighting, and so on.  Even a simple change in lighting and color selection can change a mediocre rendered image to a fabulous one. 

It's not exactly a good comparison between Revit and products such as 3DSMAX or Blender.  The latter have a host of tools to apply mesh modifiers, texturing, edge/vertex rounding, different renderers, and so on.  Those abilities are seldom required inside technical design tools like Revit so it's left with relatively basic functions.

[roscopeco2000]

yeah looks good so that that is placed in without photoshop?

[aRcHiTeCt.JM]

... absolutely NOT photoshop

... ONLY REVIT 2019 !!  

   roscopeco2000   Re: Rendering Revit vs Revit LT

yeah looks good so that that is placed in without photoshop?

[aRcHiTeCt.JM]

yeah looks good so that that is placed in without photoshop?

[aRcHiTeCt.JM]

... take a look at this one. Rendered as well in REVIT rendering engine.

.... REVIT 100 % (no photoshop, no add ins, no nothing else, just REVIT)

[loboarch · Accepted solution]

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@dgorsman wrote:

Rendering is a dark art, being not so much technical (e.g. "use ___ beam size") as it is artistic, in knowing what colors and materials to apply, how many/type/location of lighting, and so on.  Even a simple change in lighting and color selection can change a mediocre rendered image to a fabulous one. 

It's not exactly a good comparison between Revit and products such as 3DSMAX or Blender.  The latter have a host of tools to apply mesh modifiers, texturing, edge/vertex rounding, different renderers, and so on.  Those abilities are seldom required inside technical design tools like Revit so it's left with relatively basic functions.

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This is a pretty good breakdown. Rendering is really an artistic endeavor. Some tools might make things easier in one way or another but just because you are using 3ds Max does not automatically mean you are going to get a better render. If I give an objectively terrible artist (my son) the greatest brushes and paints I should not expect the Mona Lisa.

The main difference you are going to find from Revit LT (online rendering only), Revit, and 3ds Max is the level of control you have. Online rendering you have very little control over the settings. You click and hope for the best. You go back and fix materials maybe add or take away lights but that is about it. With Revit you can control a bit more stuff, in 3ds max you have maximum control.  The problem is with having control you need to know what to do with it. If you don't know the setting you need to make something look good, what good is the control? Les control someone who knows more about the tool has made decisions for you and made them with "rules of thumb" this makes getting something decent easier, but possibly makes getting the one unique thing hard to do if not impossible.

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @roscopeco2000

I just wanted to follow up here, do you have additional questions?

Hope our recommendations helped if so please mark any posts that help with "Accept as Solution" and thanks! Kudos welcome.

Regards,

[osabuteyjoel1]

Please how can i reach you personally