Explore how advancements in rendering technology have simplified the process, taking out much of the guesswork involved in setting precision levels and shadow steps. Learn how even with minimal effort in establishing materials and lighting, it's possible to create high-quality and realistic renderings.
Key Insights
- Modern rendering technology has become easier to operate, with users starting at a high setting and adjusting to custom as needed, eliminating the need to set detailed precision levels and other complexities.
- Quality renderings can be achieved with minimal input, primarily involving the establishment of a few materials and lighting settings. This simplicity leads to clear, detailed, and realistic renderings in less time.
- Once a rendering is completed, it can be saved to a project, exported, and used in a variety of ways. This could include being added to a sheet, utilized in other programs like Photoshop, or incorporated into promotional materials.
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Now that we've got the view set up the way that we want it to, and everything seems to be working out and looking good, and we're ready to rock and roll with this here, we can invest the time into doing a nicer rendering. And so I'm going to go ahead and adjust my settings here, and we can go to custom. And then if we go to edit here, it'll pop up and it'll say which one do we want to use.
And this used to be so much more complicated. And they've actually made it a lot easier. We can start with a high setting and say copy to custom.
And then I can go through and I can say, okay, well, how many levels do I want it to go? Well, how about 10? Or I can just let it go until I tell it to stop kind of thing. And that's it. They've taken out a lot of the guesswork.
You don't have to say you want it to do this many steps or this much precision on shadows or anything like that. So it's really just kind of, I guess the term would be "set it and forget it" like the old cooking machine that used to be out. But this is essentially as easy as it gets to get a pretty decent-looking rendering.
So I'm going to hit cancel here because we really don't need to be messing with the settings too much. I'm going to go to high because we don't need to go beyond the best setting there. And just to save a little bit of time, I'm going to keep it on the screen level because if I go to printer level at 150 DPI, we're going to get into a little bit larger of a rendering size.
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And this should be good for our purposes here. But if you did want to go to a much higher quality rendering, you can definitely crank this up by using a higher DPI and also increasing the size of this view here. Now that we've got it all ready to go, let's not forget.
We want to save and render. So as you can see, I'm about five minutes in on the rendering here, and we're at about 50%. And again, that's going to vary based on the computer you're using.
But you can tell that our quality is significantly higher than what we were getting with the draft. And you're starting to see some pretty good clarity in the flooring material and in the reflections that we have on the glass. And so the next five minutes is just going to refine and start to clean up a lot of this noise that you're seeing on the ceilings and the walls there.
Now, as you can see, we are just about at the end of the levels that they're asking for here when we use that high setting. And you can see there's still quite a bit of noise in here. But considering how much effort we've put into creating this rendering, I think it looks pretty extraordinary.
I mean, we've done just about nothing to contribute to the rendering other than establishing a few materials and setting a few lights. And we ended up with a pretty decent-looking rendering. Now that it's finished, we can do a couple of things.
So the first thing I'll do is save to project. And we can call this one interior rendering. What this does is it will create a new section in our project browser for renderings.
This is great because now we can put this on a sheet, which we made. And we can also export the rendering. We can say export.
And then we can save this in our folder as interior view. And we can use this for whatever we need to. So you can even put it into another program and say Photoshop or something similar, and add people or any number of things, right? Put it together in a brochure or something like that.
So there's a lot of options for these renderings within Revit. We'll go ahead and click save. And then we'll work on the exterior rendering.
