2rtan016 ‘Mistress ofthe Dorkness: Revit + SdsMax:Utlizing Render Techniques -A Wining Combination J Ga] Higt®a —Susunod na Blogs Bumuo'ng Blog Magrsign in Mistress of the Dorkness Melanie (Stone) Perry's CAD & BIM blo: (especially as it relates to Facilities Managem This platform will be primarily dedi nt [FM / CAFM / CMMS}), {ed to Design Technol 2013-11-02 Pages Home Revit + 3dsMax: Utilizing Render Techniques - A Winning Combination Aestlorsl Conienk Recommendations Ccotege Courses It's been too long since I've had a guest post, so, I'd like for you to enjoy this rendering tutorial. | met Ryan on www.forums.augi.com when | was admiring his hospital ‘About Me renderings in the Gallery forums. Working on the Engineering side of the medical field, I don't know how to Melanie Perry make pretty visualizations, but, | certainly recognized the [or Faw photorealism and technical detail in the images he posted yuan Ges, Suaher ef vumen because they looked just like our OR's and patient rooms. Pei Finear Gator Date onl Please enjoy! View my comeleteprofle ‘Atel by Ryan Baker Cameron, AIA, LEED AP, EDAC, NCAR ‘@recameront——yan@yanbakercameren.com ——LinkealN A little more about me. (often times | hear tht fms do not have the te to adequately parr igh end visit. Sometimes the excuses ar ferent, Revi takes too longo render we don have rough detaed equipment, ors rt anes to perm hs ak o ou chont st ist asking fort So wha can we do as aeitects ond engineers to improve the efclency of creating vival say om a data models to ai te dveopment of tr pets? For {he most par rales heavy onthe users abity to go the next evel. 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Once youte done lecaing your equipment walls, celings, gh, etc in Revit, add your camera view and get the general feel forthe room to be as exact as you want i. Once this is ready, save the ile with everything in the 3D View tumed on {that you need tumed on) and find helps to temporarly close out ofthe Revit model when you reach te impottexpot point. (And yes, it does work if you lead the central ‘model instead of your local) Step 4: Link me up, befare you go ge. Ready forthe big show? Technically while you arent importing inte 3dsKax, you are inking, whien is sor of Ike Xref back in CAD. Only a {ow key things to lookout for hee, Cek the Sax Loge (op ltt comer then “References” -"Manage Links". Locate tne Revit le you plan an lnking ang ance you've done thal, you should ot a screen asking you to solet @ 30 view. | usually ‘choose Default (@D}, but thats ust me. Noxt I select from the pulldown manu - "D9 NOT combine objects", Now lattach the fle, Notice a window pops up and | uncheck the boxes for Daylight and Cameras. However, for some reason, they come inthe model anyway. | wil always immediately delete the daylight and Revit cameras. {Atnough it helps to keep the Revit cameras sometimes!) | willimmecatoly croto a new Daylight system by simply clicking “Create” (up atthe top) "Lights - Daylight System. A message pops up and | just click yes. To place the Daylight System, ‘ick anywhere in the scene and click again to size the compass (it dossrit have to be huge) and then move my cursor round unt gt the “Sunt inthe sky and out of the way. (tis 2 ite teky) hipsimisvessotnodrkness blogspot com/20Ta rev adsmax-uizng-fonder Ment Popular Posts (OT: Lor of the Rings Pickup Lines Uncenibly the mos pula poston my blo the one enilled Gook Pickup Lines . 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The same goes for the ‘other ights when you tum them an, as well as tel indvidual settings, such as the lumens and kevin temperature, Stop 6: onder me this, ronder mo that? Basically ina nutshell you re done. Youve got your ‘camera view selected, ignts are on, Rvit materials are mapped. Ht F10 on your keyboard fo view your render output sellings 3 well 38 °B" on your keybrnart forthe ‘environment settings. For the environment on INTERIORS, | usually recommend Stating at 10.5 forthe exposure value. The other sllings, while important, can be ignored for your ist test render. Fr the render output setings, | wll change the default custom resolution te HD and 1920 x 1080 output, under the "Commant tab. The “IndivoctItuminaion” ta settings wll tomporaly be changed lo a Medium Final Garner, wth GlbalIlumination enables and @ Difuse Bounce value of 2. (eee images {or exact setings) The final image is what cal the test render (18 mage s always a test) to see ou stating place. It took about 19 minutes and 34 seconds -Alintsior and exterior ight were on at 1080p HO resolution at 300dpi, Clearly something Revit ‘would nat be abla fo doin such a short amount of time, hipsimisvessotnodrkness blogspot. com/20Ta Trev adsmax-uizng-ronder Ml2rtan016 Mistress ofthe Dorkness: Revit + SdsMax:Utlizing Render Techniques -A Wining Combination BONUS ROUND: Minti ide | say in the frst paragraph thal | would render without taking uo ‘massive computing resources once the render has started? Wel inthe below image, this is how. Open Windows Task Manager and undar the processes tab, right cick on SdsMax.exe, then choose "Afinty". This opens the CPU's processor allocation. 1 will {um off CPU"0" so that Revit nas enough juice (one core) to power ise uninterrupted while 3dsMax does what is doos best. As long as you dont tum of al the processors, Si ax wl continue to operate ‘at, can you do this to Revit while renders? Why, yes, you ean, However, Revit renders though a program called fexcoprenderexe, $0 right clek an tha instead of Revi.exa, Same process by right click and sattng the afin to use a particular sot of processors. ‘atnored by Melanie Pery at 11/02/2013 ir] | G41 +39. 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