Rendered Walkthroughs

Revit 2011 (and 2010) allow you to create walkthroughs that are rendered. No more cartoon-like shaded with edges walkthroughs. Granted, you need a computer with enough juice to output renderings, but still, pretty sweet. To make things easier, here's a few tips on creating walkthroughs.

1. Keep the image small (the videos below are 8"x4").
2. Be sure and clean out the windows temp file (solution here).
3. Render at a reasonable quality (for the smaller images, medium quality is usually fine).
4. To make the rendering a bit quicker, uncheck the lighting movement.
5. Output to jpeg, not avi, and only output a few hundred frames at a time.
6. After all frames have been exported, use VirtualDub or a similar program to reassemble.

Here's a couple of examples (they look much better in real life, not on the small flash video)