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Forums >> Revit Building >> Technical Support >> Going from Rendering in RA 2008 to Rendering in RA 2009
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Anyone else experience the drastic changes that have taken place from Rendering in RA 2008 to 2009? -No scene settings enough said -No background image capabilities (totally dumbfounded they got rid of that previous capability) - Atleast 2/3rds of rendering options in the rendering dialog box have been removed - Seasonal planting option removed and is now in tree families themselves. - Most importantly if you have rendered a model in 2008 and convert it to 2009 you mind as well do it all over again. Nothing is compatible (majoirty of materials, all plants, all people, all lights and light familes,) -
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Persevere - you can create some fantastic renderings using the new engine, look at some of the recent posts to the gallery. The scene settings aren't required for the realism. You can insert the background into a drafting view or sheet view by exporting it as a tiff image and reinserting into revit. Place your background behind the image - the sky in revit is an alpha channel so the background will show through. The RPC content is more realistic than the previous trees and often come in autumn flavour. The sun settings give realistic information about actual conditions. Explore it a bit and you will be pleased with the results that can be achieved.
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Yeah only revit 09 takes about 10 times longer to produce a decent looking image .... and having to take your image into photoshop to change your background image is just an extra hassle. Im not happy at all with the rendering in revit 09 and i dont think im alone?
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There is a simple answer to all this that you may not be aware of and that is that Revit is using a very basic version of Mental Ray. You need to purchase 3ds Max if you want no hassles.
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I used the 3Ds Max trial version and exporting your model from Revit to max isnt as seamless as you make it sound.... you have to re assign all your materials and max has a different material library it seams.
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I also tried the trial and 3DS max has too many bells and whistles for my liking. Now everytime I open the program I get a head ache from being overwhelmed! So I stopped using it and let the trail expire. It is a superior rendering program no doubt but IMO Revit can get you about 80% of the quality of Max; and I find that 80% to be acceptable. 3DS max is faster if you have multi-processor capabilities. I'm extremely satisfied with the Rendering of 2009. Just look at the gallery and how much the images have improved over the year as proof...Use tiffs inside of Revit for backgrounds and you'll solve that hassle.
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I posted a powerpoint on my blog sometime ago about going from Accurender to Mental Ray... Check it out as it may assist. FYI the download is about 30MB or so...
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