I have been working in Rhino since 2007 and wanted to check in with the community on where things are heading with rendering and AI for archviz.
Over the years I have run jobs through Keyshot, exported into 3ds Max with Corona, done a lot of work in D5 Render, and recently played around with some of the AI image tools like Nano Banana to see what they can do.
Along the way I built a Rhino plugin that generates photorealistic images straight out of Rhino. It reads your edges, layers and materials directly, so there is no exporting and no rebuilding scenes in another program. You stay in Rhino.
I am posting mainly to take the temperature of the room. For the architects and designers here, is fast photorealistic output without leaving Rhino something you would actually use day to day? Or has your current workflow already got this covered?
Keen to hear how everyone is handling rendering right now and where AI fits into it for you.
I’m not an architect but mostly solve few substantial issues for some major architecture and construction firm customers in Indonesia. And some are already satisfied with Rhino + Krita AI, as Krita AI is completely free and very fast, even on just 6GB of VRAM.
The results is somehow very close to what every single material is assigned, even with just object color applied to an object. It also supports upscaling with good details. It gets to a point where it now delivers so much better result than a year ago.
Attaching the result of Rhino + Krita AI that was completed in around 5 secs. And the best thing of Krita AI is, every rendering process can be set to local. No need to get online or buy any token.
Yes, 100 times, yes. The holy grail is to be able to seamlessly model, render, and compose sheet layouts with details within one piece of software. For rendering today, this means Ai generation or enhancement is expected.
1st- amazing model! really loved the attention to detail as well as the shader you are using.
Secondly, thanks for sharing that! I wasn’t aware of Krita Ai and for sure will have a look at it! Great result .
Hey John! Thanks for your reply.
I am a massive fan of D5 render but I’ve been trying to test AI to see how far can we go and the application. Reason being is exactly what you said, I am trying to minimize the amount of software required as well as the back and forth required every time the client requests for changes or updates.
I feel like for example when I need to edit on rhino, sync to D5, edit textures, generate render, pos production on photoshop, them put it back on Rhino is too much back and forth
Hi Rodrigovento. You’re most welcome. I posted Rhino + Krita AI a while ago. May be you want to see the difference from the earlier results compared to the recent development. Feel free to look at this post:
