topic Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad? in Visualization

any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:51:06 GMT

Hello
I am considering to choose a rendering-animation program,
now Maya seems cannot directly import PLN files (I worry losing some PLN data especially material and layers).
Enscape seems(1) seamless with ARchicad, but (2) seems need to assign material again? (3)not sure can give the same effect of rendering-animation as Maya or Cinema4D...
Please advice whic rendering program can both achieve seamless with PLN meanwhile have a best rendring-animation effect?

Thanks

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 04:07:47 GMT

Hi. I've moved your post to the Presentation/Rendering/Multimedia forum.

Is there a reason you are not considering TwinMotion?

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 06:03:17 GMT

OK I compare ENS and TWM,
Thanks Karl,

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

jl_lt — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:35:27 GMT

Hi, i dont know what kind of quality your looking for. If its professional looking super realistic images for selling projects you might want to export to 3ds and work in 3dmax. The model translates perfectly, and yes, you have to map in 3dmax, but then you can use Vray.

If you need good but fast rendering for inhouse output i would definitely recomend Enscape or Twinmotion, both of which can get spectacular results albeit less realistic than what you can get with Vray. Lumion is probably still better but needs higher end computers.

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

Podolsky — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 23:59:21 GMT

You can try Maxwell Render. It can render directly from ArchiCAD, converts ArchiCAD materials into Maxwell Render materials, ArchiCAD materials can be mapped to more advanced Maxwell Materials. Also very interesting software is Felix Render. It's based on cloud computing (so, no need powerful computer, all render computations happens on render farms servers). You don't need to buy Felix Render, it works on principle 'pay as you render'. Felix is using Maxwell as render core, it also has huge online library of objects (cars, trees, furniture, materials).

Both packages give super-realistic images.

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

jl_lt — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 20:18:05 GMT

hadnt heard of Felix. looks amazing

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

Podolsky — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 15:31:23 GMT

Actually I forgot to mention Blender. It's the best animation software just because it's absolutely free. The last version had very good updates in rendering quality, user interface and modelling technique.

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 15:28:18 GMT

(I got it, the below content is solved)

Hello all,
I want to make an animation showing construction sequence (layer by layer droping down) m similar as Naviswork for RVT, as below:

I have alreay set all layers （which are 50 layers for thousands of elements to show a complicated construction sequences) ,
and don't want to set again in the rendering program, which is supposed to turn on and off these layers in this rendering program,

so:
Which above mentioned software (enscape, lumion, Twm, Maxon...) can achieve this?

Thanks

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

Podolsky — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:12:24 GMT

You need to use animation program for that. Lumion, Twinmotion or Artlantis is not working here. Something like Blender, Maya, Softimage, 3DS Max and similar can do this job. You also need to export each layer separately (in total 50 exports). And collect these 50 files in one animation project file - importing 50 times. For each layer there you need to set needed parameters.

Also possible, that if you save the whole file as 3DS mesh in ArchiCAD, that will create 3d studio objects by Layers-Surfaces - you probably don't need export 50 different files.

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

Emre Senoglu — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:36:57 GMT

Lumion, Twinmotion or Artlantis is not working here

quick correction - lumion and twinmotion can both do simple animations, i'm not sure about artlantis.

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

jl_lt — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 23:46:23 GMT

Podolsky wrote:
Also possible, that if you save the whole file as 3DS mesh in ArchiCAD, that will create 3d studio objects by Layers-Surfaces - you probably don't need export 50 different files.

that is correct. still have to do the animation job on 3d max with paths and stuff.

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 03:56:06 GMT

Yes
I am trying Lumion now, and import 50 layers one by one, thanks

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

Steve Jepson — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:53:23 GMT

check out this Lumion video

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

Podolsky — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 21:00:31 GMT

OK, in the latest version of Lumion 11 Pro there is function called animated phasing. And sky drop function does exactly this kind of visualisation.

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit archicad?

mikas — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 04:15:44 GMT

I think TwinMotion might do exactly what you are looking for with its "scene states" phasing tool.

You only have to sync with "no Merge" option. It's in the TwM settings dialog. That way you get your ArchiCAD layers to work with in TwinMotion. The default is "by material", which on the other hand is good for another kind of viz work.

Twinmotion 2020 Tutorial – Phasing tool

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit Archicad?

Foti — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:44:50 GMT

@Emre Senoglubesides the TM phasing (youtube below by Mikas) have you seen TM do that drop in animation? or is it just that phasing?

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit Archicad?

Emre Senoglu — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:44:14 GMT

TM can indeed do movement animations, like in the original video. here's a quick trial

Re: any rendering-animation program best fit Archicad?

Foti — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 13:26:47 GMT

Thanks, I will try to play with TM and some googling over the weekend with my blocks.