Revit Trees and People in Octane Revit Plugin

[JulioRibeiro]

Hi folks! I am a new happy owner of the Octane for Revit plugin and pretty impressed about how fast and good it is overall. But I have a question about the Revit Trees and People that disappear in octane window. What I have to do to have my exactly scene rendered in Octane? Best regards!!

[Seekerfinder]

Hi Julio,
Welcome to the forums. I would suggest posting questions about the Revit plugin in the Revit sub-forum. You're bound to get quicker responses there.

The best way to work with trees in the plugin is to use proxies. The plugin allows us use a Revit family as a proxy for an external model and, as of recently, we can permanently associate that family with a particular proxy. So the 'aspen' tree family in Revit would always 'call' a certain OBJ or ORBX file and render it in the plugin.

There are many resources online for OBJ trees & plant, including Xfrog, Evermotion etc. Look at the manual for how to use families as proxies.

Hope that helps.

Best,
Seeker

[face_off]

In addition to Seekers excellent response.....the reason the current RPC props (trees/people) do not render in Octane is because they are really 2d planes, with a texturemap rotated to match the camera position applied - so they do not render in a 3d way that an unbiased renderer like Octane needs.

Paul