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Hello People Does anyone know how to render a scene with a background image (eg sky and tress etc). It looks like you can only render with the clouds and colours in Revit 2009. Rick
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use the decal command maybe? you would just have to orient the image to the camera place. Or use photoshop/piranesi/max/autodesk impression impression is free if your on subscription
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In 2009 you must render using the skies built in. Then export using TIF or PNG which create an alpha channel so you can put your background in afterwards. Alternatively you can capture the image to the project and do this in revit.
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That suck,, before you didnt have to mess with it, just putting in the settings.....Good new version but Some things should have been left alone.
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Can someone please help with explaining alpha channel? or capturing image to project? Thankyou
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" That suck,, before you didnt have to mess with it, just putting in the settings.....Good new version but Some things should have been left alone. " Before renderings looked like crap too... Integrating a new rendering engine is a big process, it will get there. But to give you a little background, you must use the inbuilt skies as they actually contain lighting capabilities and assist in lighting your building. If you were to place your own image in straight away as was the case with accurender, 1. It was trial and error to get it in the right spot, 2. Exterior day time renderings always looked like a bad cartoon. With MR you can easily place your image afterwards with ease and get it in the correct location. It has a couple of shortfalls with this process, but must better than what we had.
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Mr. Spot is right, Revit has a realistic type of rendering, which sets the light according to the day & time provided by the user, so better render the scene & put the background image in photoshop, which i usually do myself. It works.
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If you use alot of RPC content I would look into the enviroments, I have never used them in Revit but it seems like a quick fix for that problem..... That'd probably be the best single platform solution.
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I have been looking into this problem, Revit not handling background images, and the only workaround I have found for getting an image into the model is to create a generic wall and slap a huge decal on it, position the wall perpendicular to the camera and there you go. You will need to pay close attention to the suns location as this generic wall will cast monstrously large shadows if you dont adjust accordingly. It works, not quite as effectively as I would like it to, but it does work well enough.I do hope as Mr. Spot had said earlier, that this will be a feature they will implement soon, and hopefully with that a horizon adjustment ability. *crosses fingers*
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"In 2009 you must render using the skies built in. Then export using TIF or PNG which create an alpha channel so you can put your background in afterwards. Alternatively you can capture the image to the project and do this in revit." If I save a rendering with a white background to the project, is there a way to make the background transparent so I can drop a sky behind it?
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From render dialog box, Choose Background-Style-Color and select your color.
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I am not able to get my image background to be transparent. I render like normal using the mental ray sky. Then export to png. Then import back into a drafting view ontop of a jpg photo. Any suggestions? Anyone? I do not have photoshop.
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nevermind....I got it. You have to export from the rendering dialog box, not from the rendering view.
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a bit off topic here... but Could i save a Revit Architecture 2010-(32bit) project in a 32bit operating system and open it on a 64bit operating system with Revit Architecture 2010-(64bit)?
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Surely, you can not do the otherwise (2010 to 2009).....
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