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Hello, My name is Jay and I represent a company that wants to start "playing" and exploring this new BIM world. We are not an architectural company but we offer several products for commercial and residential business.... so saying that... Is it possible to create a walkthrough at high resolution. Almost real (which will be rendered). Here is a scenario, you open the door and the lights will come on. You turn around and the tv will be on etc etc We have checked several videos on youtube and it seams doable, we downloaded the trial and created a walkthrough, however, the animation doesn't look real at all and the lights and tv's won't come on. We have read that we need to purchase 3ds Max to create this kind of environment...is that true? If you have a couple of minutes to drop some quick lines we would really appreciate it since our "friends" at Autodesk just want to sell us both licenses.
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Revit is a BIM tool, not a presentation program or animation program. You can create the BIM model in Revit and assign materials and finishes but the rendering program furnished with Revit will not give you the quality you want.
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Have a look at this. The pro version is about $4-5 K. http://www.chiefarchitect.com/
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What Homeytheclown posted appears to do some of what Revit does and probably about the same for visualizations. What you need to decide is what you want the program to do. Rendering programs don't do BIM and most BIM products only do some rendering. To do both at a high quality, you need seperate software. We farm out our animations. I don't know what software they use but these are not cheap. They are high quality with moving people and cars. However, we don't do these for small projects nor for most of our commercial projects and when we do provide them, the client pays for the service. We do provide the REVIT model to our rendering company and they use that.
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I have experience with Chief. It is awesome software, and if you want to do walkthroughs, it is way better than Revit. you can use it almost like a first person video game. The reason why I don't use if commercially, is that I find Revit is far better at documenting the building, and is inherently more flexible. If all I was doing was residential design with a lot of presentation and little construction drawing detail, I'd pick Chief. that's my two cents.
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The fact is what are you describing is a 3dmax animation. There you can set up every set of actions in time, but its an expensive software and its expensive to do the animations ( in terms of time, every second to the final animation needs to from 30 to 60 frames... so 1 minute of animation will be ...a lot of time rendering). BUT i think revit has many features for modeling faster than in 3dsmax... but when you export it in 3dmax as a fbx it makes a ton of triangulation... You have lots of 3d rendering softwares, but they have same issues. In this moment, the best you can do is model in revit, render in 3dmax. Maybe in a near future the rendering will be a real time, game like feature you can just put on /off, but thats not the case.
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