Revit - Rendering | Forum profile

Has anyone had trouble with your avi's being corrupted like the attached file. This seems to be occurring in the hidden line and shaded with edges view formats only. A rendered view looks fine. It does not appear to be file size related since it occurs on an avi with as little as 10 frames. The frames are all full size, not compressed. At first I thought it might be a codec compatibility problem but with the rendered version working ok...

Carl, agree have had same problems with Media Player and Revit avi files. I gave up on MP..am tired of having to switch between Real Player, Quicktime and Media Player to get a result. A solution to this, is to give up on Revit animation and get a generic solution where file exchange with others is possibly better implemented (or shall we say, implemented differently) and that can work with a range of other solutions into the bargain. Its not...

I got some really good workflow info from Jeffrey McGrew's Model to Marvelous class at AU, specifically about addressing lighting and exposure early, before dealing with materials and entourage. I also really liked the trick Phil Read showed in the Film and Screen class for using Phases to map a single white material to everything for a rendering that is all about form. Now I am wondering if you can put the two together, and basically...

I'm rendering a scene using a background colour rather than one of the default skies. An area of reflective steel material shows the sky to be black, not the background sky colour I select. Any ideas why? Malc.

With all the latest hardware coming out end of this year, will iRay be integrated with Revit's Mental Ray?