V-Ray 5 for Revit - Subscription

V-Ray Next for Revit is a versatile visualization toolset that brings you the best of both worlds - real-time visualization and photorealistic rendering. It’s everything all in one. And all in Revit. From beginner to pro, V-Ray has all the tools you need to visualize your Revit projects from start to finish.

Highlights

V-Ray 5 for Revit now includes V-Ray Vision for real-time visualization. An intuitive new Light Mix tool to simplify how you light your model. A new V-Ray Frame Buffer where you can fine-tune and finish your renders. Plus over 650 3D assets you can place in exteriors and interiors.

	Real-time in V-Ray for Revit is here. With V-Ray Vision you can enjoy a realistic real-time view of your model while you work. You can walk around to get a better sense of your design and take better decisions. You can see your design evolve instantly as you apply materials or setup lights, allowing for rapid iterations. You can quickly produce pictures and even export 360 panoramas to speed up the approval process. And whenever you are ready to present your design to your clients, you can easily scale your model to photoreal quality.
Enter the Chaos Cosmos Now, V-Ray for Revit comes with a brand new curated asset library - Chaos Cosmos, that helps you better tell your story. Easily create real-world context for your model’s interior and exterior by adding high-quality entourage from the essential categories - furniture, accessories, lighting, vegetation, vehicles and people. Search and import straight from within V-Ray and spend zero time on setup - Cosmos assets have accurate physical scale, automatic levels of detail, and are ready to be rendered. Chaos Cosmos provides a consistent 3D content experience across Chaos products and renderers.
Beyond Rendering
Explore lighting like never before With the new Light Mix feature, you can experiment with all the light sources in your model after you have rendered. Group your lights, tweak their brightness or change their color to find what best fits your space.	Post-process inside Revit Our redesigned Frame Buffer comes with powerful new features that take you beyond just rendering. You don’t need a separate app for compositing or color corrections — they can be handled with V-Ray and saved as presets for future projects.

Network workflows for improved efficacy 

Sketch your ideas with a click The new global Contours setting helps you give a sketch-like look to your concepts. Apply them to the whole model automatically or use them selectively to highlight certain objects.	Streamlined Proxy Material setup We've simplified the proxy material assignment process with the V-Ray Asset Editor. Assign materials in the Editor once, save them along with the mesh file and you can reuse this configuration in any project.	Add realism to Revit materials Now Displacement is not limited only to V-Ray materials — it’s an asset of its own that’s easy to apply to native materials.	Creative freedom with Sun & Sky Studying your 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, your sunrises and sunsets will never look better.

More realistic materials

Randomize textures for realism Use the UVW Placement asset to randomize patterns and colors of V-Ray materials as they would appear in the real world.	Coat & Sheen layers Quickly create polished surfaces of your materials with the new Coat layer. Utilize the new Sheen layer to create realistic fabrics such as velvet, satin or silk.	Dirt & weathering Add weathering effects to any surface of your model with the improved V-Ray Dirt texture.	Improved material library Save time by downloading our render-ready Material library, containing over 500 high-resolution 4K textures such as glass, metal, wood and many more.

Benefits

Key Features

Rendering: 

• REAL-TIME RENDERING - With V-Ray Vision, you get real-time high-quality visual feedback of your model as you build it. Additionally, you can easily export images or 360 panoramas. Materials, cameras and lighting set up in V-Ray Vision can easily be scaled to photorealism.
• RENDER-READY 3D ASSETS - Our integrated asset library, Chaos Cosmos, enables you to search and add render-ready objects to your model directly in Revit. With accurate scale, automatic LODs and interoperability across 3ds Max, SketchUp and Rhino, Chaos Cosmos assets are an essential addition to any Revit pipeline.
• CPU, GPU & HYBRID RENDERING - V-Ray comes with two powerful rendering engines. You can choose between super-fast GPU and CPU or Hybrid rendering to best suit your project needs and requirements.
• INTERACTIVE RENDERING - Render interactively while you design. Fine-tune lights, materials and cameras and see the results right away.
• DENOISER - The NVIDIA AI Denoiser uses artificial intelligence to remove noise in an instant. And the V-Ray Denoiser supports denoising individual render channels to simplify compositing.
• RENDER CHANNELS - Choose from many unique beauty, utility and matte passes to give you more control over your rendered images in compositing.
• SCENE INTELLIGENCE - Automatically analyzes your scene to optimize rendering so you get the best quality in less time.
• CHAOS CLOUD - Rendering on the Cloud is just one click away.
• V-RAY SWARM - Powerful and scalable distributed rendering system that's simple and fast. Get an extra speed boost with V-Ray Render nodes.
• RENDER CHANNELS - Choose from many unique beauty, utility and matte passes to give you more control over your rendered images in compositing.
• SETTINGS MANAGEMENT - Set up individual lighting, mood, and composition per view in the same Revit model. Easily share render settings across teams and projects.
• BATCH RENDERING - Leave V-Ray to render your project images while you are away. Batch rendering helps you schedule multiple views for rendering with a click of a button.
• SUN ANIMATION - V-Ray adds extra realism to Revit’s Solar Study. Explore and visualize the impact of natural light and shadows on your designs across a variety of timespans.

User Interface:

• SEAMLESS INTEGRATION - V-Ray naturally fits into Revit's UI and complements your Revit workflow without altering your BIM database.
• ASSET EDITOR - Create, edit, save and manage your V-Ray materials all in one place with the new Asset Editor. Various advanced materials give designers even more control to fine-tune their designs.
• APPEARANCE MANAGER - Take your Revit renders to the next level. With the Appearance Manager, you can set basic Revit assets to automatically switch to more realistic V-Ray assets at render time.
• FRAME BUFFER - Track history of your rendered images, fine-tune their color parameters and save them directly to your Revit project.

Lighting:

• ACCURATE LIGHTING - Simulate any type of natural, artificial, or image-based lighting.V-Ray automatically converts all Revit lights to V-Ray ones and further extends Revit's lighting capabilities.
• LIGHT MIXING - Experiment and adjust your model’s lighting after you have rendered. Tweak the brightness and color of individual or groups of light sources to find the best rendition for your space.
• ADAPTIVE LIGHTS - This lighting algorithm dramatically speeds up rendering in scenes containing many lights. And you can render image-based lighting much faster with the new Adaptive Dome Light. It’s exceptionally quick for interiors and substantially speeds up your rendering.
• LIGHTING ANALYSIS - Easily visualize real-world illumination values (lux) with the new Lighting Analysis render element.
  
• SUN & SKY - Take advantage of our improved sky model to present your design in its best light when the sun is at the horizon. Alternatively, use the sky generation parameters for full creative control.
• GLOBAL ILLUMINATION - Render photorealistic rooms and interiors with powerful and fast global illumination.

Camera:

• REAL-WORLD CAMERAS - Work like a photographer, with controls for exposure, white balance, depth of field and more.
• AUTO EXPOSURE AND WHITE BALANCE - Capture the perfect exposure every time. The new Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance camera controls make rendering as simple as point and shoot.
• LENS EFFECTS - Add that extra touch of photorealism with real-world camera lens effects such as bloom and glare.
• VIRTUAL REALITY - Experience your designs at 1:1 scale. Create content for popular VR headsets with 6x1 cubic and spherical stereo camera types.

Materials and Textures:

• PHYSICAL MATERIALS - Create great looking materials that look exactly like the real thing.
• MATERIAL LIBRARY - Download over 500 4K-quality architectural materials from our library on demand. Glass, metal, wood — any texture you need for your model is available and render-ready.
• NATIVE MATERIALS SUPPORT - Render an enhanced version of your Revit materials automatically.
• DECALS - Add images to paintings, signs, screens and more. V-Ray Next for Revit adds full support for Revit Decals.
• CONTOURS - Give your model a sketch-like look. Use the global contour settings to create every outline automatically or the Contour material attribute to highlight a certain region.
• COAT & SHEEN MATERIALS - Use these two new layers to add distinct effects to V-Ray materials. The Coat layer creates polished surfaces while the Sheen layer is perfect for realistic fabrics such as silk or velvet.
• RANDOMIZER - Use the UVW Randomization asset to create realistic materials by randomizing patterns and colors. The Stochastic Tiling functionality removes texture tiling seams.
• WEATHERING & DIRT - Easily add weathering effects to any surface of your model with the V-Ray Dirt texture with complete control over its position and amount.
• METALNESS - The V-Ray Material adds native support for metallic reflections (Metalness) for greater compatibility with PBR materials from applications like Substance Designer.
• TEXTURE MAPS - Create realistic and unique shaders using any texture map or one of V-Ray’s many built-in procedural textures - Gradient, Temperature, Tri-Planar, etc.
• MATERIAL OVERRIDES - Make the most out of your early designs and get a feel of your project by quickly rendering cardboard models.
• CHAOS SCANS - 1000+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray.

Atmospheric Effects:

• ENVIRONMENT FOG - Quickly add realistic atmospheric depth and haze and use true 3D fog with realistic light scattering.
• AERIAL PERSPECTIVE - Simulate natural looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.
• VOLUMETRIC MATERIALS - Realistic material light scattering and translucency.

Geometry Management:

• GEOMETRY REPLACEMENTS - Work smart without altering your BIM database. Use your Revit families as stand-ins for all V-Ray objects.
• V-RAY SCENE- Link and render V-Ray scenes from other applications such as 3ds Max, Rhino, and SketchUp. Share complete ready-to-render V-Ray for Revit files.
• V-RAY PROXIES - Use your Revit families as stand-ins for V-Ray proxy objects. These are memory efficient models of highly detailed objects like trees and cars.
• V-RAY GRASS & FUR - Render realistic grass, carpets or fabric.
• RANDOMIZE PROXY OBJECTS - Add variety to your scene entourage such as plants and trees by randomizing the scale and rotation of V-Ray Proxy and V-Ray Scene instances.
• DISPLACEMENT - Quickly add surface detail without extra modeling. It’s perfect for architectural materials like brick and stone. The displacement asset can be applied to both V-Ray materials and Revit materials.
• SECTION BOX - Render sections easily with full support for Revit's native section box.
• INFINITE GROUND PLANE - Create context for your project in a click of a button.

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HW Specs

Recommended System Specification

Manufacturer's system requirements are generally the bare minimum that you need to run the software and insufficient for effective and productive operation of the product. 

Our suggested "real world" mid-range desktop system key specifications to properly run V-Ray are as follows:

• CPU: Intel Core i5
• Memory: 16GB
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA QUADRO P620
• Hard Drive: 500GB NVMe
• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

Novedge, in partnership with High Speed Computing, can also provide the perfect hardware for your design needs, pre-installed with your software, at a very competitive price. Contact us to discuss custom-configured workstations and laptops.

Suggested Workstation

Silver 3D Workstation CPU: Intel Core i7 Memory: 16GB Hard Drive: 500GB NVMe Graphics Card: NVIDIA QUADRO P1000

Tutorials

V-Ray Tutorials

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