
There’s the miserable human-computer interaction, complicated interface logic, and slow rendering performance that continues to get in their way. Traditionally, photorealistic rendering has been too expensive and complicated for your average architect to integrate into their regular design workflow. As for direct integration, users can now save their V-Ray settings directly within the Revit project, while a new and streamlined workflow allows for direct saves to a Revit project from the V-Ray frame buffer. There’s an improved toolbar, and full support for Revit Decals that make it simple to render paintings, signs, screens, and more. There’s also a new realtime AI denoiser that eliminates image noise to help the user obtain a sense of lighting almost immediately.Ĭhaos is offering further efficiencies in its quest to simplify the rendering user experience. The V-Ray physical camera can now set the correct camera exposure and white balance automatically. In terms of improved performance and intelligence, Chaos is promoting CPU and GPU speed-boosts, over previous versions of V-Ray Next, of up to 50% and 200%, respectively. Also, Revit users can now perform lighting analysis by evaluating real-world lux values from daylight and fixtures to determine the exact illumination levels of their design. There is a new asset editor that enables users to create, edit, save and manage V-Ray materials all in one place.

FeaturesĬhaos product manager, Ana Lyubenova, describes V-Ray Next “as helping Revit to do things it couldn’t do before.” They believe they’re offering customers a better Revit because it’s smarter, faster, and more efficient than using it without V-Ray Next. V-Ray Next for Revit works within the context of Revit to define renders and Chaos Group has taken advantage of AI to speed rendering and improve renders. This is in contrast to Autodesk’s high-quality Arnold renderer, which requires Revit files to be linked and later rendered in a separate host package, namely 3ds Max. By tightly coupling V-Ray with the host design software, they hope to transform the complex problem of producing photorealistic renders into a fast and straightforward solution.

Similar to V-Ray Next for SketchUp and Rhino, Chaos is distilling over 10 years of their rendering R&D into a tool that makes sense to architects using Revit. The Chaos Group recently announced its release of V-Ray Next for Revit, which enables high-quality rendering straight out of Autodesk’s building design software.

Chaos differentiates with application-aware rendering.
