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Visualization
Smoother Collaboration
§Integrated rendering environment
§Real-world lighting effects
§Improved material maps
§Easy material creation
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Bring ideas to life with integrated visualization tools
Bring designs to life for impressive client presentations at any stage of the design with integrated rendering. The streamlined visualization capabilities are fully integrated into the AutoCAD Architecture  workflow. Make your presentations stand out by visually communicating rich design information.

Integrated Rendering Environment
With AutoCAD Architecture,  the inclusion of the Mental Ray rendering engine provides a single in-process rendering
environment for creating highly photo-realistic renderings, based on real-world photometric
indoor & outdoor lighting, procedural materials, more robust material editing, and inherent
interoperability with the AutoCAD family of products.


Additional Notes Below

Real-world lighting effects
You can use photometric light sources to illuminate scenes for more physically
correct rendered images. With photometric light sources, you can specify real-world
values. For example, if you need to use fixtures with 75-watt light bulbs, you set the
light source to 75 watts.

Material Maps
With additional procedural maps and advanced lighting overrides for materials, you
can achieve more realistic results than from texture maps alone. Advanced lighting
overrides let you adjust lighting parameters such as light emission, reflectance, and
color bleeding for greater realism.