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mechant

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Hello,

 I am trying out revit architecture 2010 and I have found several problems I cannot overcome myself.

1. My renderings look bad ( the walls and other surfaces are blotchy), see image file. I think it has to do something with lightning, because when I remove the roof, renderings look ok.

2. I cannot see any texture in the camera view before rendering. I always have to render at least in draft, to see any form of result. And that is annoying. In programs like Chief Architect I always see some form of result when I am in the camera mode and in revit I just see the plain colour of the texture ( see image file)

3. It is very  difficult to create roofs ( e.g. I have found no options for gable roofs) there are too little things I can adjust when I create a roof in element properties

4. The object library of the program is poor. I have to look for the objects on the internet and many things I have not found yet ( plants, image frames with pictures inside, carpets, etc.)

 I have seen those splendid renderings with revit / Maxwell or Fryrender and I know it is the best the market has to offer, but my results are far from those. Can you also suggest me the cheapest alternative I can transfer my revit projects to maxwell ( 3ds max is very expensive, indeed) I hope they create plugin for revit soon. 

Thank you kindly for all your responses :-)

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tim123

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Your renderings can be improved substantially by getting the lighting right.  Try adding some lights.  Depending on the sun angles, if you hide the walls behind the camera you can also get some good results.  Most of the renderings in the gallery were done in Revit and some are quite impressive.

You can check the textures of materials in the material editor and get a good idea of how they will appear.  The draft render gives a good idea of the lighting, but to really see the materials, you need to do proper renderings.

There are many options for roofs in the roof creating tools.  When you create the roof by footprint uncheck 'slope defining' to get gables.  Thats just one option.  Look at the element properties of the sketch lines - there are quite a few options.

The standard Revit library has quite a few plants in them.  There's also a picture frame that you can put an image into.  Generally though a picture frame is easy to model and to place an image onto (decal) so that you can have any kind of frame that you want.  There are many carpet materials available in Revit, you can also create your own.  Carpets are materials rather than objects, but to create something like a mat is quite easy.  There are also loads more objects (families) available on Revit City.

I don't think that you need to export your Revit project into another software to achieve what you need to.

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alabaster2513

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curse.... talk about wanting instant gratification. I am yet to see a program that I open for the first time and start producing 5 star quality stuff.

Maxwell will take a dwg won't it?

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