Adding Raytrace to walkthrough

[AnotherCADUser]

Is there a way to add a bit of Raytrace get to a walkthrough video? I'm using x8. On HDP there was an option to set two levels of final rendering. 

 

Is there a Raytrace walkthrough option on X10?

[ChiefArchitect]

Thank you for the question.  Using raytrace rendering for video walkthroughs are not generally practical.  Since video requires 15+ frames per second, you would need a minimum of 30 raytrace renderings for just 2 seconds of video.  If a raytrace takes 10 minutes (this is a low number) it would take 5 hours or rendering time to create just 2 seconds of video.

 

The good news is that X10 has a new rendering feature called Physically Based Rendering (PBR).  This new rendering technique is much closer to the quality of raytrace and it is a realtime rendering technique, so it can be used for creating video walkthroughs. Here is an example video using the PBR with a video walkthrough.  Pay special attention starting at :39 seconds into the video and again at 1 minute.  This will give you an idea of the quality that is possible.

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10190/accessible-kitchen-bath-project-walkthrough.html

 

Kind regards,

 

Derek

Chief Architect Software

[Dennis_Gavin]

what I have done is use raytraced shots in movie maker with some motion and it gets the idea across with much better realism if you are able to do good ray traces.