Revit Detailing / Wall & Ceiling Panels

[Anonymous]

I am a beginner at Revit and I feel like I am falling behind the other students trying to grasp Revit. A lot of my classmates present realistic renderings with great looking wall panels and ceiling panels. Is that just in the materials for the wall and ceiling by creating a material from a photo? Or does it look better to add them manually? If so where to find that?

Also if anyone has any suggestion on furniture besides herman miller/steelcase?

I am wanting to add interesting features my to commercial office, like meeting pods, hammocks, cut outs in the wall of interesting work area/seating but am completely lost at where to find anything or how to create that.

Any advice is appreciated! Thank you!

[barthbradley]

My suggestion would be to just use the families and materials that come stock with Revit until you learn the basics. Rendering is not a "basic".  I'd put it on the back-burner.  Maybe tackle it next year.     

[Anonymous]

I am in a class that requires realistic renderings for presentations due at end of 11 weeks so I can't put in on the back burner. He's super strict on what renderings look like, if they don't look detailed I will definitely fail the class.

[ToanDN]

Knoll has a lots of good furniture, system furniture, entourage families. You can also try BIMObject.