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Erik

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How would you get caoloured light source?  I would like to use existing lights and change the light bulb, so to speak.  Add a coloured translucent cover?

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ale02

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Theoritically, just add glass material in front of your light source will do the trick.

of course in must add material parameter for your glass so that you can change to any colour you want later.

Try that long ago, should work. 

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ale02

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I hardly use lighting effects, never went into rendering almost all cases...mostly stop at simple shadow casting.

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Erik

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Me too.  I do many shaded views.  I think we often spoil our client with dazzing colours, just because we can do it.  However at times we do want to take the next step.  We have come down from 3DMax and concentrating on keeping it all in one box. 

There is always something better and what is not the best now, might be better in the next version.  We are not all computer enthusiasts.  We want to express our creation most efficiently, but sometimes we do want to impress

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Hi again, it is always good to know you have a gang of people doing revit together....Since you all is coming from 3d max background, it is properly easier to export back to 3d max and do the lighting control in 3d max...never try that but revit 8.0 onward should have that capabilities..

I am never a 3d max guy, did think of it long ago but too pain-taking to go through the process...

Image rendering should be ok for the client, not much time required unless you are talking about photorealistic image rendering...but never full avi movie rendering....shaded view rendering should work just fine...unless you all really have time for that...time is always a factor..(at least for me) besides the machines you are on...(this is another factor to me)

properly sketchup would do the tricks for me... 

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In the past we had only 1 or 2 3DMax people who did all the 3D imagings.  Now we have several Revit users and they can do the work from start to finish or at least to the shaded level. 

Any rendering is always tedious so efficiently is very important.  I would judge what the client expect and need before spending a lot of time on renderings.  However they have become very spoiled and we need to retrain them (the clients) to expect less and wait till the thing get built :-)

'Our gang of Revit users working together' as you said,is still an issue.  Particularly the 'together' part.  Establising officer standards and best practices in a new BIM world is a 'learning by experience' process.  Dispipline with Workset is more like banging it in till they (my dear staff) understand the process of carefull thoughts and disipline

I have forgoten about my coloured light now and transgressed a bit :-)

Enjoy the week :-)

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