Quest 3D 5.0 - Real Time Visualization

Referring back to my posts about Real Time Rendering/Visualization software you can see how many competitors are hitting the market.  Well, here is another one!



Quest3D lets everyone create compelling 3D fly-throughs and interactive presentations.


Version 5 now offers an amazingly easy off the shelf visualization engine.
In minutes you can be up to speed with your project and quikly send an executable to your client.
"The holy grail is to combine an of-the-shelf product with the power of writing your own software.", says Remko Jacobs, CTO of Act-3D. "We bundled amazing real-time 3D rendering technology, solid importing and export to an executable in one convenient package."


"This is an exciting release for everyone.", continues Ferry Marcellis, CEO of Act-3D. "The interactive materials and lighting are more realistic than ever before. We could only have dreamed about this not so long ago. These days, however, we effortlessly amaze the audience with jaw dropping skies, water and landscapes."


Marcellis: "Act-3D believes that Quest3D 5.0 is the number one real-time 3D development solution for the PC platform. This is the reason why we also use it as our in-house development tool. The result is the immensely popular and ground breaking architectural movie software, Lumion."...


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Real Time Visualization Software and Revit

Luke had a post recently about Lumion so i figured I would respond with my own post instead of simply in his comments...

I have been testing out Lumion, Stadia3D, Artlantis, and Twinmotion for the last month or so and they all have their pros and cons in my opinion.  Lumion and Twinmotion take a bit of work to get a Revit model into.  Once the model is in the programs it takes even more work converting their materials to the software.  **Disclaimer** I have not been able to try the absolute latest Lumion exporter for Revit **

Artlantis is a tad bit easier with a direct plug-in exporter from Revit.  It carries the materials through so you can just select the Revit material and update it to the software's materials.

Stadia3D is by far the easiest connection with Revit.  What ever you see when you render in Revit is practically what you see in Stadia. It requires a tiny add-in to be installed and the rest is done in the cloud.  The quality of your video card is the only limit with the quality of the renderings...

I plan on using a variety of the aforementioned software's this upcoming semester and hopefully return to you all with some more in-depth analysis and results.

Have any of you had experiences with these pieces of software?  Am I missing one or two other?  Comment below!