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Lighting for Renders in Revit

Creating lighting families for accurate rendering in Revit is challenging at best. This recent post by Dave Baldacchino is a bit of an exploration of ways you can try to “fix” manufacturer content and…

2014-03-18 · Luke Johnson
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Why Viewing BIM After Dark will be Worth It for You

I’m honest enough to admit that Revit has the unfortunate reputation as a tool that is “bad” for presentation. Happily, BIM After Dark aims to correct that – by making all of us better at using Revit …

2013-12-10 · Luke Johnson
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Materials – Assets, Transparency and Self Illumination

Daniel Stine hosted the interestingly named RTC class:Mastering Materials: Getting What You Want from Revit In a recent Cadalyst article, he gives a few good material tips. Here are just 3 of them: 1)…

2013-09-25 · Luke Johnson
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Render Settings for Revit

Great render settings to use a starting point – see below. Render Settings – good quality but much faster to render Image Precision = 4Reflections = 2Refractions = 4Blurred Reflections = 1Blurred Refr…

2013-09-16 · Luke Johnson
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Rendering workflow – Revit to Max to Octane

From Jeffrey McGrew on RevitForum (I’ve underlined key parts): “While I respectfully disagree that rendering in Revit is a waste of time, for there are still times we do so, I totally agree with what …

2013-02-25 · Luke Johnson
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Making a High Quality Panorama on Autodesk 360 Rendering

From Village BIM: via Google Translateofhttp://villagebim.typepad.com/villagebim/2013/02/autodesk-360-rendering-creer-un-panoramique-de-haute-qualite.html Also check out my previous post about these I…

2013-02-21 · Luke Johnson