topic Re: Choosing an AI Renderer in Visualization

Choosing an AI Renderer

JB Sties — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:11:15 GMT

Hello,

I'm curious which third-party AI rendering software other users likes to work with. My goal is to create semi-photo realistic exterior images of my high-end residential models.

Thank you,

Apple Studio / M3 / 96 GB / Apple Studio Display / 2 TB

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon Tahoe 26.3.1

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

CosminF — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:16:12 GMT

Hi,

With a good enough prompt I got pretty decent results with ChatGPT and/or Google Gemini. The more accurate you describe the building and environment, the better the results. However be wary, they tend to add stuff or approximate and they might "freestyle" things you designed. And some post-processing might be necessary.

If I see it tends to hallucinate, I usually open a new chat, so it ignores previous input. And start all-over.

You can try both for free at first to get a feel for what they are capable of.

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

JB Sties — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:17:25 GMT

Thank you for the response.

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

Patrick M — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:27:32 GMT

I was playing around with Visoid. I'm not a rendering guy; and I know the AI style is defintiely a thing; but the results I got were passably decent, with little effort... at least it wasn't putting rogue swimming pools everywhere, or changing my doors to cabinets...

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

Mahmoud Qenawi — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:44:26 GMT

I use MyArchitectAI, it’s based on Nanobanana pro.

https://www.myarchitectai.com/

Powerful & precise without a prompt, moreover you can use prompt if you need more control.

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

jl_lt — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:23:05 GMT

Twinmotion was a game changer, as Chat gpt has been so far. It gets more than acceptable results, but always starting with a 3d model (either full or half baked) or hand drawings. Gets the desired result after 5 to 10 iterations.

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

JB Sties — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:32:54 GMT

Guys, thank you for the responses and examples.

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

Rick Thompson — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:25:26 GMT

This has been an important find for me. I am a bit unusual in that I have had a web site since the 90's selling "stock" plans. I am not focusing on high end, but the opposite actually... infill lots and small plans. Often for the affordable market. For years I used the vector AC engine and added trees etc after. Last year I realized I needed to step it up a big notch, which means generating about 600 renderings. I primarily sell via 3rd party sites, and they like photo renderings. I started using Cinerenderings last fall, and was very happy, for the most part. I saw some AI renderings of my plans a 3rd party site did and was blown away. I looked around and now use MyArchitectAI, as someone else mentioned. Now I am saving a lot of time because I can generate the Cinerendering using the lowest settings, and not getting as carried away with textures/colors. I still try and get close though. No grass grown at all.

If you look at my web site the ones starting in the 1300's are with the AI tool. Smaller than that are Cine. I'll attach what I now upload, and the result. I do still need a few prompts, sometimes, but not always. What I really like about MyArchitectAI is the developer. They (a couple basically) remind me of Graphisoft in the early days. They respond to questions, and provide a roadmap of the intended development. They don't yet have what some other AI rendering tool apps do, but what they now have it what I need, and a bit cheaper, but mainly, I like their attitude.

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

JB Sties — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:28:20 GMT

After trying some free trial versions of different AI packages, I bought a month subscription to Visoid. I played around with my model a bit, uploaded it to Visoid, gave it some basic prompts, and here's the result. Thanks to everyone for their input.

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

Patrick M — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:55:43 GMT

My sister gets great results out of gemini. I can't.
I've tried the Archicad built in ai image generator... too many swimming pools and chimneys, and turning doors and windows into cabinets and furniture for my taste

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

Patrick M — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:56:52 GMT

Yeah, I think I'm going to be paying for Visiod in the future... It definitely has that "I did this in AI" kind of vibe... but i'm also not a rendering guy, so good enough has always been good enough for me; and this is definitely better than good enough

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

PB — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:29:41 GMT

You may wish to look at this from a fellow Archicad user:

www.linespirereflect.com

Thread: https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Visualization/Native-ArchiCAD-AI-Visualization-Plugin-Seeking-Feedback/m-p/690808#M26773

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

Mahmoud Qenawi — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:53:00 GMT

Also, soon there’ll be an Arch. visualization & Ray-trace realistic rendering plugin by Maxon -Redshift for Archicad, signing up to the Beta version is available now.

It’s available for Vectorworks software & provides some AI features in addition to those ones inside Vectorworks itself.

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

mike_linespire — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:54:43 GMT

Hey PB, thanks for the shout-out.

We've just released V1.0 which now includes the full pipeline of image generation - editing - animating; all directly inside Archicad.

Image generation is using Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image-preview)
Video generation is a choice between Kling 3.0 and Seedance 2.0

If anyone wants to give it a try, you can signup for 5 free credits (5 image generations). Addon is available for Windows AC23-29 and Mac AC26-29

https://www.linespirereflect.com/dashboard

All the best!

Michael

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

JoeA — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:45:03 GMT

I tried LineSpire via the 5 credit demo last month. Following the best practices on their website, I created a successful test rendering on the first try. So I subsequently started a subscription for our studio.

We are continuing to explore AI as an enhancement tool for our architectural renderings. The current workflow is using Archicad + LineSpire Reflect + Gemini + Photoshop. By incorporating LineSpire Reflect into the process, the underlying architecture remains unchanged. In combination with precise prompt writing, the approach significantly reduces hallucinations.

You can check out our studies on Linkedin.

Joseph Augustine • YouResidential Architectural Manager at The WisdomTree Group6d •

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

MSDC — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:20:05 GMT

Gendo looks v promising

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

Steve Jepson — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:05:57 GMT

will MyArchitectAI work with a model generated with ArchiCAD 25 ?

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

Rick Thompson — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:16:19 GMT

It works off any jpg file. I have taken interior photos that looked bad and made them look really nice... with no effort.

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

Mahmoud Qenawi — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:33:08 GMT

MyArchitectAI is on the way to work as a plugin inside Archicad as Visoid.

Re: Choosing an AI Renderer

Chris Grantham — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:49:02 GMT

So a bit late to the game here, but is everyone walking away from things like Enscape and Twinmotion? I am faced with a bunch of single family renderings (I haven't been in the visualization game in a while) that require me to have materials/wall coverings accurate to samples provided to the client. While I like the idea of this AI stuff, how much control do you really have? I supposed I need to get out and test a few of these out, but figured I would check here before I begin spinning my wheels.