Choose the Interior Lighting Northwest group in the Light Groups dialog and click OK.. Create a new lighting group called Corridor Interior, and add the cor-ridor lights to the group..
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5 Scroll down to the bottom of the list and locate the lights Sconce Light -
Uplight : 60W - 120V Select all of them, as shown in Figure 19.12
6 Click the Move To Group button under Fixture Options.
F i g u R e 1 9 1 0 Adding a lighting group
F i g u R e 1 9 1 1 Creating a new group
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7 Choose the Interior Lighting Northwest group in the Light Groups
dialog and click OK
8 Click OK to close the dialog.
9 In the Project Browser, go to the Level 1 ceiling plan.
10 Select one of the exterior lights.
11 On the Options bar, click the Light Groups menu, and select Edit/New.
12 Create a new group called Exterior Corridor.
13 Locate the exterior wall pack lights and add them to the group.
14 Click OK.
15 Go back to the Level 1 floor plan.
16 Add the same sconce lights to the interior of the corridor at each
cor-ner, and at the ends of the walls
17 Create a new lighting group called Corridor Interior, and add the
cor-ridor lights to the group You now have three lighting groups
18 In the Project Browser, go to the Rendering View Corridor view.
19 On the View Control bar, click the Sun Path button (it is the picture
of the sun with the small red x), and click Sun Settings
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20 Click the Duplicate button, as shown at the bottom left in Figure 19.13.
21 Call the new scene Syracuse at dusk (you can replace “Syracuse” with
your location), then click OK
22 Set the time for 7:30 PM (see Figure 19.13).
23 Click OK; your scene should look like Figure 19.14.
24 Click the Show Rendering Dialog button on the View Control bar.
F i g u R e 1 9 1 3 Changing the scene to dusk
F i g u R e 1 9 1 4 The rendering at night
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26 Set Lighting Scheme to Exterior: Sun And Artificial.
27 Click the Artificial Lights button to make sure all your groups are
present, and then click OK
28 Click the Render button Your scene should look like Figure 19.15.
F i g u R e 1 9 1 5 The rendering in daylight
If you are actually in Syracuse during the winter, it would probably be a good
idea to get inside! While we are in there, we can bring the experience that we
just gained inside with us to create an interior rendering scene
interior Rendering
We create an interior rendering in almost exactly the same as an exterior
render-ing Of course, we will definitely use artificial lightrender-ing We will also use sunlight,
just to make sure we account for any natural light that comes into the building
The objective of this procedure is to create an interior lighting scene using a
premade 3D perspective of a hallway:
1 In the Project Browser, find the 3D view called East Wing Corridor
Perspective
2 On the View Control bar, click the Show Rendering Dialog button.
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3 Set the Quality setting to High.
4 Set Resolution to Printer and to 300 dpi.
5 Set Lighting Scheme to Interior: Sun And Artificial.
6 Set Sun to Sunlight From Top Right.
7 Make sure Background Style is set to Color.
8 Click the Render button Your hallway should resemble Figure 19.16.
F i g u R e 1 9 1 6 The interior corridor
This is getting almost too easy! I suppose we could keep rendering all week, but
in the interest of saving some trees, I encourage you to render just a little more
If you run into any trouble during your foray into additional rendering, give me a shout at ewing@cscos.com and ask your question The winding stairs heading up
to the balcony in the west wing would make a nice scene to hang on your cubicle
or office wall!
If you feel as though you have enough experience with rendering, let’s jump to the next section and tackle creating a nice walkthrough for a presentation
creating Walkthroughs
For some reason, you can show a client a beautiful rendering of a space or building you plan to design for them and still meet with a blasé, half-hearted reaction Now,
if you show them the same space, but as though you are walking through it … well then! The client perks right up
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certainly worth a glance Sometimes it is the special tools that you can pull out
of your belt that can win a job or impress your friends on a Saturday night A
walkthrough is a series of points you pick in a sequence in a plan view It’s sort of
like connecting the dots, but these dots will advance a frame as if you were
walk-ing to the points you picked
The objective of this procedure is to create a walkthrough of the building and
to export the walkthrough to an AVI file:
1 Go to the Level 1 floor plan.
in Figure 19.17
F i g u R e 1 9 1 7 Finding the Walkthrough command
3 Zoom in on the east entry.
4 Start picking points, as shown by the numbers in Figure 19.18.
5 Keep picking points down the hallway, into the corridor, and into the
west wing, as shown in Figure 19.19
6 On the Modify | Walkthrough tab of the Ribbon, click Finish
Walkthrough
7 On the Modify | Cameras tab of the Ribbon, click the Edit Walkthrough
button
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F i g u R e 1 9 1 8 Picking the points in the sequence
F i g u R e 1 9 1 9 Sketching the walkthrough path
Note that you can
adjust the camera
height on the Options
bar this is especially
useful for walking up
and down stairs.
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Walkthrough 1 view
9 On the Options bar, change the first frame to 1, as shown in
Figure 19.20
10 In the View Control bar, click Realistic.
11 Select the crop region.
12 On the Modify | Cameras tab, select the Edit Walkthrough button
(again)
13 On the Modify | Cameras tab, click the Play button, as shown in
Figure 19.20
F i g u R e 1 9 2 0 Clicking the Play button to start the walkthrough
14 When the walkthrough is done, you can click the button that
con-tains the value of 300 (this is the number of frames) on the Options
bar, as shown in Figure 19.21
15 In the Walkthrough Frames dialog, change the Frames Per Second
value to 20
16 Run the Walkthrough again This time it is sped up.
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F i g u R e 1 9 2 1 Changing the frames
The walkthrough is complete One thing you certainly will be asked is if you can “give” the walkthrough to someone for a presentation Luckily the answer
is yes, and the person presenting does not have to be Revit literate, or even own the application
exporting an Animation
Exporting an animation is a great, but slightly hidden, feature The Export function
is not located on the Ribbon—you will find it in the Application menu, as shown
in Figure 19.22 By exporting a walkthrough, you are creating an animated vector image (AVI) that will translate the native Revit walkthrough It is quick and almost completely painless!
To create an AVI of the walkthrough, follow these steps:
1 Click the Application button.
in Figure 19.22
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4 Find a location for the file and click Save.
5 Click OK in the Video Compression dialog (You will have to sit and
wait for Revit to go through the walkthrough as it creates the AVI.)
F i g u R e 1 9 2 2 Choosing to export the walkthrough
6 Find the AVI and run it to make sure it works.
N O T E Just in case you are wondering, yes, the size of this AVI is over
a gig If necessary, you can attempt to compress the file as you export it, but
the quality will probably degrade Besides, memory is cheap these days
With the walkthrough complete, there is one more animation that we need to
look at It’s not as cool as the walkthrough, but it is just as interesting This
ani-mation is called a solar study