Revit 2012

[glorybound]

I just downloaded and installed Revit 2012 and I am still so under impressed with the render engine. I opened a scene, from Autodesk, that is optimized with textures and materials, but man, it is so 1990's. I had Accurender flash-backs!

[Six8]

The inability to get a decent render out of Revit quickly and with predictable results, is what pushed me to Max/V-Ray.

[glorybound]

That goes for me, too. I started to see some stunning images on the web and I found out who was doing them and how, which brought me to v-ray.

[Nicinus]

This is more of a question for Vlado of course, but is there any way we now or in the near future could add vray materials directly in the Revit render material panel? Would that require a Vray version for Revit? It would just be such a killer feature for my workflow as I do 95% of the work in Revit.

[raymarcher]

I don't think that Autodesk would like the idea of a vray for revit, it could eliminate a certain percentage of 3ds max suites.

[glorybound]

I would agree, but they do have an open API so I can't imagine they can stop it from happening.

[beestee]

http://autodesk-revit.blogspot.com/2...ture-2012.html

There have been some fundamentals changes to how material work. Whilst much of this work is on-going and will not be immediately obvious to the user this is the first steps of a large project to focus on delivering models with Physical Materials. The Paint tool has undergone a change, so when selected it will automatically open the materials dialog box to allow you to preview the material before applying to an element. The Remove paint tool allows you to remove materials you have already applied. You can also schedule materials that have been applied by the Paint tool.

The management and control of material has been upgraded; for instance you can now create property sets for materials. These are collection of properties that are used to define the aspect of the material. The management of property sets are managed through an overhauled Material Properties Library Dialogue. This work has accumulated into the ability to have libraries that can be present in a project or an independent file which can be shared between users as well as other Autodesk applications such as 3dsmax. With this change we can again create customized libraries for project or for your office, something which was not possible when Autodesk changed from Accurender to MentalRAY. Finally, the icing on the cake, you can now purge unused materials from a project, no more keyboard combinations of selecting and deleting one at a time!

Theoretically, you should be able to use this new library functionality to do a material conversion much more efficiently.

[Nicinus]

I don't think that Autodesk would like the idea of a vray for revit, it could eliminate a certain percentage of 3ds max suites.

How would that differ from having access to Mentalray in Revit? Vray is my choice of renderer but the reason I bring in models in Max is more to add details and finish, that wouldn't change if Vray was available for Revit. At least not entirely.

[robman321]

Autodesk is bed with mental ray it has been the promoted renderer for Maya, Max, Revit, etc... What would Autodesk stand to gain by promoting the competition?

[Franx]

I would venture out and say that a lot of users adopted (or stayed with) Max because of Vray, since it was only availlable for Max for the first few years. Might be irrelevant now that AD owns the big guys and that Vray is compatible with other packages, but I think that Max's dominance, especially in archviz, isnt at all foreign to Vray's success. And I'm pretty sure AD acknowledges this also...