V-Ray for Revit, currently in beta, has been designed from the ground up to be easy to use - push-button simple, if you will. But now its developers are targeting a completely different type of user with a new plug-in for Revit.

It’s designed for rendering experts, with hundreds of different settings that can be tweaked to deliver that perfect image. V-Ray is available as a standalone renderer, but is commonly used as a plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max. The software has featured in virtually all of the rendering and animation projects we have covered in AEC Magazine over the years. It’s a bold claim, but we’ve no reason to doubt it. The powerful, quick ray trace rendering software is a favourite in the architectural CG community.Ĭhaos Group, its developer, boasts that 92 of the top 100 architecture firms in the world render with V-Ray every day.

To architectural design visualisation specialists, V-Ray needs no introduction. On the other hand, the program is very stable, never crashing in our testing, and some of its tools have clearly been perfected over the years to maximize usability: the sectioning tool, for example, makes it very easy to modify large sections of your render that need to be moved or removed.Core materials can be overidden with diagrammatic materials for a quick conceptual render Unfortunately, it also shows its age a bit in the interface which, despite streamlining in recent versions, is still dull, with lots of large and sometimes disorganized square panes full of small text. V-Ray was in use more than a decade ago as of this writing, making it an extremely mature application that's compatible with just about anything. The software is frequently updated with under the hood features that allow it to take advantage of the latest CPUs and GPUs. V-Ray is 3D model rendering software, usable with many different modelling programs but particularly compatible with SketchUp, Maya, Blender and others for which it has a specialized version. Dinkar Kamat Updated 6 months ago Bring Your Models To Life With Powerful Rendering Tools.

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