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brandino

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I have been excited about the advertised ease of bringing in Revit to 3ds max to do faster and better rednerings.  The rendering machine in Revit is super slow.  However, I was unable to bring in my 2013 Revit file into 3ds Max Design 2013 as Autodesk says it should.  So, I did the previous way of doing it before 2013, by exporting the revit file as an fbx file.  I imported the fbx file into 3ds max design.  It came in, but I thought it would open it to the view I had saved the Revit file from.  Anyways, I tried to render in 3ds Max, byt simply hitting the render button and all I got was a blank white rendering.  Nothing in it indicated any massing.  Help!!!  I just want to find the best way of rendering my Revit model. 

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did you, literally, just hit the render button? just in-case you forgot, below is a must to achieve quality rendering from revit to max. as per my experience).

assign your render engine/render settings (f10), environment (, UVW mapping(modify tab), and camera settings (by selecting camera)

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If you just wanted to "click-to-render", check out Autodesk 360 Rendering and see if that will meet your needs. 

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if you used a camera view it will bring the camera view into 3ds max so you can use the same view. The elements in 3ds max will probably need to have a few of their materials reassigned again.  The rendering setttings though are completly relative per program so you will have to play with the settings in max.   

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Don't do it the FBX way, just link in the revit file.  When in MAX, you've got to create a camera, then set your view to that camera and render.  Don't use the revit camera because the parameters will be limited, e.g., you can't change the revit camera lenses like you can with the MAX ones.  You also have to create lights in max to get it rendering right.  Here's a rendering I did linking revit 2013 into MAX 2013.

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rbcameron2

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Link the Revit model directly like Rod said.  Will you be able to just click render right off the bat? No, probably not.  Lighting and environment adjustments are a must in 3dsMax.  Usually they take just a couple seconds or a few minutes to get them to your standards.  Then it is just click render.

Do you have subscription?  Why not just render on the cloud if that's all you desire?

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Wow.  It seems like yhou really have to do a lot of tweaking in Max to get results.  I was hoping to avoid that.  Max is so curse complicated and very non-intuitive.  I was trying to avod having to shell out money to take a class on Max, when it seemed like what Autodesk has been trying to sell Revit users on this idea of simply bringing it into Max to render. 

Ronmalt, I saw your comments, but I have no idea what I am supposed to do about environment.  And I have no idea why I need to do UVW mapping, when I already set it up correctly in Revit.  This has got to be easier.

Regarding just bringing the revit file into max, I have tried that, and when I open up Max to import the linked Revit file, the windo dialog box, says something like "looking for Revit file" instead of "opening Revit file".  And, it looks and looks and looks, and finds nothing.  On another forum, somebody duggested that I need to download a separate item called, Revit Interoperability.  I have both Revit 2013, and 3DS Max Design 2013.  Shouldn't they already have that "Interoperability" inherint in them?

Anyways, sorry for the rant.  Thanks for all your comments.  Please continue to comment if you think you can answer my problems.

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ronmalit

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previously, i worked with interior scenes, i convert rvt to dwg and import it in max, because i used vray.. then i need to use vray mat and lights. http://ronmalit.wix.com/design#!porfolio/c199t

currently, im dealing with large scale exterior scenes. then when i tried to link rvt to max, only mental ray and iray (im not so familiar) will work. then i  need to set my environment and effects and choose mR photorealistic something and or environment map so iray will render properly.

regarding UVW mapping experience, maybe it is because the rvt link vs max unit setup.  but i saw some textures blown up.

having these encounter, i sticked with our beloved revit to render, happy with it, just took me 3-5mins to render. mind if i share?

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Do my problems have anything to do with using a 32 bit computer?  I found out that Revit's new Anti-Aliasing visualizer is only available with a 64 bit.  Also, I just found out that I can only download Revit Interoperability with a 64 bit computer.  Is this why I have been having problems?

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Check out Octane Render for 3ds Max.... I only have the demo but at a glance it destroys iRay and Vray in my renders on my GeForce 660 ti.

final renders take about 15 seconds

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So, Octane Render is a plugin for 3ds Max?  I saw a youtube demo.  It renders real time, right?  You can movie it around and modify if, but it is always rendering it, right? 

Regarding Iray and Vray, are those other rendering softwares?  or are they plugins or parts of the rendering machine for 3ds Max? 

And, regarding your computer, I have no idea what kind that is, but kind of processor does it have?  Dual core, quad core, processing speed?  How much RAM does it have also?

Thanks for your comments.

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sorry for the confusion brandino, that comment was directed at rbcameron2.

to clarify for you what i am saying is that yes octane is a plugin for 3ds max and a quite cheap one at that. iray comes standard with max and vray rt is a plugin as well (quite pricey)

these 3 options i speak of render from the graphics card instead of the cpu. my current graphics card is a Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 t.i. ($300) and it has nearly 1,500 processing cores vs my CPU which only has 8.

the attached image is a draft render with VRay RT done in just a few minutes

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brandino

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That's pretty cool stuff.  Your computer with 8 cores is at the top of processing speed already.  I just bought a dual core all-in-one computer with 3.3 GHz 8Gb RAM, and 1 Tb Hard Drive, and I'm thinking that it might not be enough to do what you guys do.  I'm just an architect who just wants to know enough to represent my designs decently enough.  I don't necessarily want to be someone who does rendering full-time.

Anyways, I have another question:  I am running into problems with doing simple draft renerings in Revit lately.  All I get is a black render that shows none of the modelled elements.  I've tried Inter and Exterior sun and artificial or just sun or just artificial, and they all come out black.  I have no idea what's going on.  Anybody?

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my first guess would be lights inside geometery?

sounds like your best bet is cloud rendering with autodesk 360. i use it a ton, you can render several views at once and keep working. the end quality isnt super mega high end but its easily presentable to a client.

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