Walkthrough render

[M4Arkitekt]

Hi - Is it possible to make a rendered walkthrough with vray for revit ?

[Ana Lyubenova]

Hi M4Arkitekt ,

We don't have access to Revit's native walkthrough API, that's why we haven't provided support for it yet.
We've been working to provide alternatives. One of them will be available with the launch of Update 2 which is coming very soon.

Best,
Ana

[philip kelly]

Ana
Gpood morning.
What is the Walkthrough API exactly?, I am thinking of doing one very soon.

Thank you

[Ana Lyubenova]

Hi philip kelly ,

API stays for “application programming interface”. It is what software developers use to interact with an existing piece of software. You can read about it in this useful article or on the Autodesk official page.

To integrate with Revit as a built-in Revit plugin, V-Ray uses the native Revit API. In it, various major Revit functionalities are exposed, i.e. they can be accessed by plugins such as V-Ray. Some functionalities, however, such as the Walkthrough, are not exposed. That's why we can't just access and render it.

Best,
Ana

[philip kelly]

Ana

Thank you , I appreciate the time to asnwer.

Regards
Philip

[Ana Lyubenova]

You are very welcome!

[M4Arkitekt]

Hi Ana

In V-ray for revit vantage, is if possible making realistic animated fireplace ?

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi M4Arkitekt,

Currently that type of effect is not possible with Chaos Vantage. Animated fire requires the use of an Emissive with a fire image sequence plugged into the Color and an opacity image sequence of the fire plugged into the Transparency. Vantage currently doesn't support transparency of the Emissive material. However, If you are interested in rendering an animated TV screen or water you could check out he following forum threads:

• https://forums.chaos.com/forum/chaos...-water-texture
• https://forums.chaos.com/forum/chaos...in-vantage-1-8
• https://forums.chaos.com/forum/chaos...eo#post1159505

They are for different host apps(Rhino and SketchUp) but the workflow is similar for Revit - you need an animated image sequence and somekind of animation e.g. sun animation/solar study to be able to export an animated .vrscene which you would later be able to open in Vantage and render out the animated image sequence.

Best regards,
Alexander