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treeves1968

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Hopefully I am posting this in the correct forum. I have been running Revit for several years so I am not a novice for sure. I have always had  problems figuring out how to go about rendering sheetrock with paint. My walls I have are just sheetrock walls (1/2" thk.) in the material editor I just told it that the wall is paint. Is there another (or better) way to go about doing this? It seems the sheetrock almost renders decent until you introduce artificial lighting...then it goes downhill from there. The sheetrock renders really badly. Any advice would be appretiated. I am running Revit version 2012.

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You can assign any material to your walls.  GypBd can be assigned a paint color finish.  For walls that are continuous and the same material, - just a different color, you can split the face and assign a different material (color).

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treeves1968

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Yes, I have a paint material attached to it now (white) but it renders horrible. I guess I can just keep playing with it. I just thought maybe I was doing something seriously wrong was all. I am trying to attach a file, we will see if it works. Hopefully you will be able to see in the image what I am reffering to.

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Make sure to mess with the warmth/saturation/midtone values post-render.  You can probably pull a prettier image out of the default that revit spits out. 

Also, consider making a custom render "quality" that has daylight portals enabled.  This will increase your render time, but it will make your windows, doors, and curtain walls cast a more convincing light into your room, and cut down on the patchiness of shadows on the walls. 

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Thanks for the tips, I will try it. Actually, I am running on custom quality settings but I dont think I had the portals enabled. I also forgot that you do exposure stuff post render...oops.

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treeves1968

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Thanks for all your help. I enabled the daylight portals, and now the walls are rendering like gyp. bd. with white paint should!!

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