V-Ray for Revit - Real-time and photoreal rendering

• V-Ray & Enscape compatibility
  With V-Ray 6 it is possible to directly convert real-time scenes from Enscape and make them as photo realistic as possible. Because Enscape materials, objects, and lights are supported, all design decisions are preserved during the different design stages. This ensures flawless collaboration between designers and visualization experts.
• Chaos Cloud Collaboration
  

  It’s easy to share work and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on the cloud. With Chaos Cloud Collaboration you can upload your images and image panoramas straight from the V-Ray Frame Buffer and significantly speed up the review and approval process.

• Real-time Visualization
  V-Ray Vision gives users a realistic real-time view of their model as they develop it. They can rapidly iterate, make better design decisions and communicate more effectively with stakeholders working on the project.
• Render-ready 3D assets
  V-Ray comes with a curated asset library — Chaos Cosmos. Users can effortlessly create real-world context for their model’s interior and exterior by adding high-quality entourage from essential categories including furniture, acce- ssories, lighting, vegetation, vehicles and people.
• Post-processing inside Revit
  No need for a separate app for compositing or color corrections — they can be handled with V-Ray and saved as presets for future projects.
• Sketch ideas with a click
  The new global Contours setting gives a sketch-like look to concepts. They can be applied to the whole model or used selectively to highlight certain objects.
• Light Mix
  The new Light Mix feature can be used to experiment with all the light sources in a scene after it’s been rendered. Lights can be grouped, their brightness adjusted and their color changed to find what best fits the space.
• Design-Friendly Interface
  Quickly balance quality and speed with V-Ray for Revit’s render presets. Work in draft mode for early iterations and switch to high quality for presentations.
• Interactive Rendering
  Render interactively while you design. Fine-tune lights and materials and see the results right away in the real time preview.
• Physically-Based Lighting
  Accurate options for IES and HDR image-based lighting, as well as support for Revit Sun and Sky.
• Real-World Cameras
  Simulate photographic cameras from Revit’s native camera views.
• Physical Materials
  Automatically convert Revit materials to V-Ray’s physically-correct format. Fine-tune material properties using the V-Ray Material Editor.
• Diagrammatic Materials
  Easily make scenes look diagrammatic or like a scale models with material presets such as basswood and foam core.
• Section Boxes
  Render sections easily with full support for Revit's native section boxes.
• Denoiser
  Automatically removes artifacts and noise, cutting render times with GPU-accelerated denoising.
• Aerial Perspective
  Add realistic atmospheric depth with aerial perspective and environment fog.
• V-Ray Frame Buffer
  Fine-tune your render’s color, exposure, and more directly in V-Ray’s frame buffer.
• Virtual Reality
  Verify designs at 1:1 scale in popular VR headsets like Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
• V-Ray Swarm
  New web-based distributed rendering to speed up rendering by using the power of all available desktops and render nodes.
• Export to V-Ray Standalone
  Export a ready-to-render scene from Revit to V-Ray Standalone.

V-Ray & Enscape compatibility

With V-Ray 6 it is possible to directly convert real-time scenes from Enscape and make them as photo realistic as possible. Because Enscape materials, objects, and lights are supported, all design decisions are preserved during the different design stages. This ensures flawless collaboration between designers and visualization experts.

Procedural clouds

Enrich blue skies with exactly the clouds that you envision. The new procedural cloud system is flexible and memory-efficient. You can simulate a variety of cloud conditions and animate their movement when exporting solar studies.

V-Ray Decal

Project unique materials onto any surface and across multiple objects in your model. Create road markings, graffiti, or imperfections, and give them realistic relief using displacement.

Chaos Cloud Collaboration

It’s easy to share work and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on the cloud. With Chaos Cloud Collaboration you can upload your images and image panoramas straight from the V-Ray Frame Buffer and significantly speed up the review and approval process.

Finite Dome light

Embed your model into an HDR image and adjust the surrounding environment to perfection.

Asset tags

Group families and materials with the new tagging system to manage complex projects more efficiently.

Realistic Generic materials

Visualize native Generic materials with improved fidelity and refine them to photorealism in the Asset Editor.

Enhanced Dirt texture

Place dirt or weathering effects exactly where you want them by including and excluding objects.

Better translucent materials

Render translucent materials like frosted glass or marble faster with the V-Ray Materials improved subsurface scattering mode.

Iridescent material

Easily create iridescent materials such as soap bubbles, oil spills, and more with the new Thin Film option.

More accurate reflections

Render metals and other rough reflective materials with improved accuracy.

All assets inside Chaos Cosmos

Access the V-Ray Material library through Chaos Cosmos and manage all your 3D content from a single location.

View panoramas in the VFB

Preview spherical panorama renders directly from within the V-Ray Frame Buffer, removing the need for third-party tools.

Composition guides

Find the perfect angle for your composition by using classic proportion guides, or create your own.

Lighting Analysis on GPU

We’ve added support for the Lighting Analysis render element to calculate the light intensity of spaces.

• Real-time Visualization
  V-Ray Vision gives users a realistic real-time view of their model as they develop it. They can rapidly iterate, make better design decisions and communicate more effectively with stakeholders working on the project.
• Render-ready 3D assets
  V-Ray comes with a curated asset library — Chaos Cosmos. Users can effortlessly create real-world context for their model’s interior and exterior by adding high-quality entourage from essential categories including furniture, acce- ssories, lighting, vegetation, vehicles and people.
• Post-processing inside Revit
  No need for a separate app for compositing or color corrections — they can be handled with V-Ray and saved as presets for future projects.
• Realistic displacement for Revit materials
  In V-Ray 5, displacement is not limited to V-Ray materials — it’s an asset of its own that’s easy to apply to native materials.
• Sketch ideas with a click
  The new global Contours setting gives a sketch-like look to concepts. They can be applied to the whole model or used selectively to highlight certain objects.
• New lighting capabilities
  The new Light Mix feature can be used to experiment with all the light sources in a scene after it’s been rendered. Lights can be grouped, their brightness adjusted and their color changed to find what best fits the space.
• Randomization for realistic textures
  The UVW Placement asset randomizes texture coordinates and colors of V-Ray materials to make them appear as they would in the real world. And, with Stochastic Tiling, repeating patterns are a thing of the past.
• Single material setup for repeating proxies
  In V-Ray for Revit, materials must be assigned every time a proxy is added. With the V-Ray Asset Editor, users can specify the materials once, save them and populate their scene without setting up proxies again.
• More creative freedom with the Sun & Sky
  Studying a design’s interaction with natural light has never been easier. With more control over the sky generation parameters and access to our improved sky model, sunrises and sunsets will look better than ever.
• Coat and Sheen Layers
  The V-Ray material is upgraded with two new layers. With the Coat layer, it’s easy to create polished surfaces. Utilizing the Sheen layer quickly produces realistic fabrics such as velvet, satin or silk.
• Improved Material Library
  The render-ready Material library saves users time with access to over 500 high- resolution 4K textures such as glass, metal, wood and many more.
• Dirt & Weathering
  Weathering effects can be added to any surface of a model with the improved V-Ray Dirt texture.

• New Asset Editor
  Create, edit, save and manage your V-Ray materials all in one place with the new Asset Editor.
• Appearance Manager
  Set basic Revit assets to automatically switch to more realistic V-Ray assets at render time.
• Randomize proxy objects
  Add variety to your scene entourage by randomizing the scale and rotation of V-Ray Proxy and V-Ray Scene instances.
• V-Ray Scene linking
  Link render-ready V-Ray scene files (.vrscene) from your favorite V-Ray applications, complete with geometry, lights and materials.
• Lighting Analysis
  Easily visualize real-world illumination values (lux) with the new Lighting Analysis render element.
• Revit Decals
  Add images to paintings, signs, screens and more.
• Auto Exposure and White Balance
  The V-Ray Physical Camera can now set the correct camera exposure and white balance automatically.
• Faster rendering
  On average, V-Ray Next for Revit has been optimized to render twice as fast as the previous version. And with the new Adaptive Dome Light, image-based lighting is now faster than ever.
• Settings and work-sharing
  V-Ray settings are now stored within your Revit files, making it easy for you to adopt and share the same render settings across teams and projects.
• Improved Denoising
  A new NVIDIA AI Denoiser uses artificial intelligence to remove noise in an instant.

• Fully interactive rendering - Now with support for live geometry changes, you can render your full scene while you design.
• Revit 2019 support - Now compatible with Revit 2019 and its new Opaque, Transparent, Metal and Layered material types.

• Faster scene export - With new optimizations and smart caching, translation and rendering of complex scenes is now up to 4 times faster.
• New Asset Browser - View all materials and proxy objects, and select and edit multiple materials.
• Powerful GPU & Hybrid Rendering - Faster, more powerful GPU rendering capabilities and V-Ray GPU running on NVIDIA CUDA taking full advantage of all available hardware (CPUs and GPUs).
• Streamlined UI - The entire V-Ray for Revit interface has been updated and streamlined for a more intuitive, user-friendly workflow.
• V-Ray Proxies - ArchVision RPC objects can be used as stand-ins for V-Ray proxy objects in your Revit scene to render high resolution models of trees, cars, people and other entourage.
• V-Ray Grass & Fur - Render realistic grass and fur.
• VRscans - Now compatible with real-world scanned materials from VRscans with over 600 photorealistic, drag-and-drop materials to bring a new level of realism to any scene.

• Revit 2018 support
• Adaptive Lights - Fast new lighting algorithm that can cut rendering time by up to 7X in scenes with many lights.
• Material Library - Over 500 fully customizable, photorealistic materials.
• Aerial Perspective in V-Ray GPU - Interactively render atmospheric depth and haze to distant objects and buildings.
• Material IDs - Easily render object masks and speed up post-production in your favorite image editing application.
• V-Ray Swarm - Use any networked computers as render nodes, including Mac and Linux machines.