I'm Going To Be An Interior Design Nerd For A Sec

So I am talking to all designers and students out there rendering in Revit and using the Autodesk A360 cloud. Have you ever had a problem getting your lights to turn on? And have you watched tons of tutorials and read so many forums without any success? Well I know that I have, and its a huge pain in the ass. But I watched the tutorials and read the forums, and I think I discovered the magic trick (or multiple tricks and hacks it takes to get your lights to render properly).

1. You'll want to start by finding a light to use. You can use a generic light from the Imperial Library or download one from BimObject (Philips fixtures usually work well for general ambient lighting) . But you want to make sure that your fixture has parametric properties and that the light source is not in or behind a solid surface. It can be behind a transparent lens.

2. Place your lights onto the face of your ceiling.

3. Go to properties and edit the light fixture. Change the initial color of the light. I like to use florescent (daylight). But if that is too cool fluorescent (white light) works too.

4. Check the "Emit Shape Visible in Rendering" button. But make sure to change the Emit from Shape size to 1". When you do not do this that's when random black shadows show up in your rendering.

5. Next, click the little teapot to get to rendering options. Make sure all of your artificial lights are on. Choose artificial lights on, or sun and artificial. You will also want to click printer under output settings and increase the DPI.

6. Under quality, choose best. Then click edit and copy to custom. Scroll down and make sure "Enable Soft Shadows" is checked. This step is very important.

7. Now, before rendering in the cloud, to make sure your fixture actually does work, render just in Revit.

8. And if your lights work in Revit and you have followed the previous steps then your lights should render in the cloud!

9. If it renders and your rendered image still doesn't seem bright enough try the following:

a. Change the location of the sun.

b. Increase the lumens of the fixtures.

c. Adjust the exposure of the rendering.

d. Brighten in Photoshop

e. Paint the interior of the light fixture with a self illuminating material (dim glow) if it doesn't looky "glowy" enough.

I hope this helps! If you have any follow up questions comment below.

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