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How do I render my Revit lights?

PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 6:31 pm
by SamuelAB
Revit has a bunch of lights with IES, lumen values and color temperatures. How do I get these to be rendered? Right now it seems only the solar light is being calculated.

Re: How do I render my Revit lights?

PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 1:45 pm
by face_off

Re: How do I render my Revit lights?

PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:41 pm
by SamuelAB
Another thing that's available in the 3ds Max exports of Revit, but not in Revit! Dammit, Revit needs lo loosen the heck up!

I'm curious as to how that would be possible to not give access to the IES files in the APi. Elumtools is a plugin that is able to read that data seamlessly.
http://www.elumtools.com/

Re: How do I render my Revit lights?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:19 am
by face_off
If you send me a .rvt file containing just the IES file you are trying to use, I will take a closer look.

Paul

Re: How do I render my Revit lights?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 1:15 pm
by SamuelAB
Here is a scene with simple Revit lights. If you need the standalone IES files, I can probably find them as well. Right now they are embedded in the Revit family.

Thanks!

Re: How do I render my Revit lights?

PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 5:22 am
by face_off
Thanks for sending the scene. I don't have any absolute answers, but hopefully the following information will help:

1) The Revit emitters (containing the IES distribution) in your scene are geometry items - which all have the same Revit Material. Octane is converting the Revit Material (which is called "Light-Metal") to an Octane material, and if you look at the Revit Material, you will see no evidence that it is an emitter. Emitters in Octane are defined by Material, whereas in this case the emitter in Revit is defined in the Geometry item parameters.

2) When the Octane plugin converts the "Light-Metal" material to an Octane material, there is no way for the plugin to determine which Revit geometry items are using that Revit Material - and therefore it does not know that the Light-Recessed family is using that material, and therefore cannot read the Photometrics data from the Light-Recessed family.

So in summary, the Octane plugin will convert any emitter data from a Revit Material (because there is a one-to-one correlation between Revit and Octane materials). But it will not convert emitter information from the Revit Type properties.

So in this case you really need to create 4 Revit materials (Light-Metal-1, Light-Metal-2, Light-Metal-3 and Light-Metal-4), assign them to the 4 different emitters, and then edit the resulting Octane materials to set the applicable IES file. You can shortcut this by creating a single Emitter material, and "Export Material" that material and then import it into any other emitter materials in the scene.

I hope that helps.

Paul

Re: How do I render my Revit lights?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 2:40 am
by SamuelAB
There is no geometry for lighting that is directly accessible to the user per say. Lighting surfaces are separate from all other Revit geometry. You can't paint it for example. You access it's form through a separate menu. I would not be able to assign the lighting geometry to a light fixture using the exact same geometry.

Light.jpg


Light 2.jpg


Perhaps this is a misunderstanding, because I am unable to envision your Revit to Octane lighting workflow. Perhaps a short video of the workflow would help elucidate this.

Re: How do I render my Revit lights?

PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:15 am
by face_off
Octane lights need geometry - so geometry-less Revit lights are not visible in Octane. There is a discuss on this at https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=34691 which shows how some users address this.

Paul

Re: How do I render my Revit lights?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 10:59 am
by jimho
Light is also quite important issue,
all interiors and the night view need the lights.
to my understanding, light source is different from emission materials,
In Both C4d and 3dmax we can see there is light source from octane, so not to understand why in revit cannot.
IES should be quite common way to describe the different type of light source.
Not very sure using emmit material to replace light source is a proper way.


In addition, I am quite curious. how can we do vollume light in octane for revit?
In vray it need to describe some parameters for fog, in the octane for C4d need to use a object contain many layered planes to actas fog,

what we should do in Oc for revit?


Jim

Re: How do I render my Revit lights?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 11:08 pm
by face_off
how can we do vollume light in octane for revit?
You can do this via the Environment node. https://docs.otoy.com/StandaloneH_STA/StandaloneManual.htm#StandaloneSTA/VolumeFogEffects.htm

Paul