From the course: Revit: Rendering

What you should know

From the course: Revit: Rendering

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What you should know

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- [Instructor] Before we dive in and start working with rendering in Revit, I thought we should talk a little bit about what you should know before we begin. What you'll see on my screen throughout the course is the full version of the Revit software. However, if you're using Revit LT, you can still follow along. Most of the topics within this course would apply equally to both products. There are some differences, though, as they pertain to rendering. I've got a feature comparison here onscreen from Autodesk, and the most striking difference between the two products is the presence of in-product rendering. This is available only in the full version of the product. That means that when we get to the chapter on in-product rendering, most of the topics there won't apply to you if you're using Revit LT. However, both products have Cloud Rendering, so if you are a Revit LT user, then Cloud Rendering will be for you. Now, there are some topics in the rendering chapter that will still apply, so I encourage you to watch them anyway. And I will try within each video to mention when things don't apply to Revit LT, so that you'll be fully informed. Now if you're using a third party application for realtime visualizations such as Enscape, this course does not specifically cover Enscape, but I do want to point out that most of the topics that we cover in this course will apply, even if you're using a realtime renderer. So you're still going to think about 3D views, you're still going to be concerned with materials and lighting, you're still going to be concerned with the way your model is set up and how things are composed. So the only thing that you may not be super-interested in is actually clicking the render button and waiting for a rendering to generate if you're using one of those realtime tools. So even if you're using those tools, this course still has some value for you. And the final point that I want to make is I'm not going to be covering the very basics of the Revit toolset, so I do assume that you have some Revit knowledge before beginning, but don't worry if you're still a beginner to Revit or fairly new to the software, I think you'll find that this course will still be easy for you to follow along with. So with that bit of housekeeping out of the way, let's go ahead and get started.

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