REVIZTO: we need your input.

Maddox

Hello,

I’m Oleg Maddox, the CTO of Vizerra, the company developing REVIZTO for SketchUp.
Revizto is a package with Editor and Viewer that provides real-time 3D visualization developed especially for AEC projects. It offers easy-to-use collaboration on PCs and tablets to help professionals collaborate with their customers and each other, no matter where they are.

As we all know, construction drawings have limited utility when it comes to communicating design intent. Revizto’s mission is to facilitate communication using 3D visualization, by providing tools that are easy enough for anyone to use.

As Revizto’s development continues to evolve, our most important task is to make it even better, but we can only do that with the feedback we receive from YOU. So we are asking you to please answer the following questions to help us shape Revizto’s future development. We would be very grateful if forum members here would post their suggestions and wishes. We realize that you’re busy and that there are a lot of questions, so if you prefer to answer only a few of them, please just let us know which number(s) your are responding to. Thank you for your help!

Questions:

What is more important to you: rendering with real time shadows or baked lightmaps? Or both?
Ease-of-use in the Editor. Do you find anything confusing or hard to use?
Ease-of-use in the Viewer: Do you find anything confusing or hard to use? Is there something we should add? An example of our collaboration with users is here: http://www.revizto.com/community/blog/revizto-weekly-development-update-new-interface-for-project-manager
Collaboration tools. Markers, Chat, Screenshots, Videos. What do you find most useful? What’s missing?
Revizto Web Gallery. Is it useful to you? If you wouldn’t use it, why? Is something missing?
Mobile devices: Currently the performance of large projects can be a challenge, but the power of mobile devices is increasing quickly and we are developing to meet this new capability. Our question is how should we plan our development roadmap to create the most useful mobile tool? Should we decrease the render quality to get faster frame rates? Would it be better to bake the renders instead of providing real-time rendering?
Is our Online Manual helpful? What can we do to improve it?

Krisidious

Questions:

What is more important to you: rendering with real time shadows or baked lightmaps? Or both? Real Time
Ease-of-use in the Editor. Do you find anything confusing or hard to use? The editor seemed very straight forward. I would like eye height control for pedestrian and a panel to control collision for materials.
Ease-of-use in the Viewer: Do you find anything confusing or hard to use? Is there something we should add? An example of our collaboration with users is here: I don't yet know how I feel about people who download the viewer to view my project having to sign up at the website. The viewer itself seemed straight forward enough. I might have the viewer default open to the project gallery instead of having a project open automatically.
Collaboration tools. Markers, Chat, Screenshots, Videos. What do you find most useful? What’s missing? I love the collab tools. I would suggest something similar to the scenes of sketchup. a predefined set of saved locations and view directions. Customizing the marker 3d object would be nice too.
Revizto Web Gallery. Is it useful to you? If you wouldn’t use it, why? Is something missing? I like the gallery, I would rather it be more open than it is. having to give each person access is rather troublesome in the case of open invitation. Like people who view my website. to invite them to go and see models they may be reluctant to sign up for anything just to see it and then have to wait for me to add them to a list. I would rather just have a link to my gallery from my website and people can download the viewer and go right in.
Mobile devices: Currently the performance of large projects can be a challenge, but the power of mobile devices is increasing quickly and we are developing to meet this new capability. Our question is how should we plan our development roadmap to create the most useful mobile tool? Should we decrease the render quality to get faster frame rates? Would it be better to bake the renders instead of providing real-time rendering? not really on my priority list but I can see where it would be very helpful for in person meetings and on site meetings.
Is our Online Manual helpful? What can we do to improve it? it was and I used it.

Krisidious

I'm very excited about the product. I design custom homes while working directly with a client; almost 95% of the time we do all collaboration online. For people already in the industry it's easier to imagine 2D drawings in 3D within their minds. Clients don't normally have this ability. Giving the opportunity to walk around inside and out of their home before moving into construction documents is a huge time saver. Clients are also very excited. I can already see I'll be making this part of my design process.

Maddox

Thanks a lot Kristoff for your valuable input! Please take a look for my comments below:

Real Time Ok.. However we are working over optimization of light map size as well.
The editor seemed very straight forward. I would like eye height control for pedestrian and a panel to control collision for materials. Ok. Eye level settings is in our wish list from Revit users. We will add it in future versions when other priority tasks will be done. Collisions: there is already present one method to control collisions which is working well for Revit users. We will look for optimization or other method for SU in future.
I don't yet know how I feel about people who download the viewer to view my project having to sign up at the website. The viewer itself seemed straight forward enough. I might have the viewer default open to the project gallery instead of having a project open automatically. In version 1.2 we will have option to switch Off default view and after start of standalone viewer will open working folder for your projects.
I would suggest something similar to the scenes of sketchup. a predefined set of saved locations and view directions. Customizing the marker 3d object would be nice too. We are working over new type of markers, more comfortable, and yes, looking like normal blueprints markers (close to what you see in SU). In v1.2 will be just cosmetic changes, but soon with the following release after v.1.2 we plan free update with new type of markers. We plan to inform our users almost each week in development news, speaking about new features or changes (on our site).
I like the gallery, I would rather it be more open than it is. having to give each person access is rather troublesome in the case of open invitation. Like people who view my website. to invite them to go and see models they may be reluctant to sign up for anything just to see it and then have to wait for me to add them to a list. I would rather just have a link to my gallery from my website and people can download the viewer and go right in. The problem is that the process of collaboration between the project developer and the customer is almost always a highly personal process and is not for everyone. There are also technical problems to make open for loading in viewer every project from a cloud that was done as public. We’ll think about it and keep in mind. At the moment I have some idea how to make access to the model in viewer when you are doing your project public at Revizto gallery – as option in your project page settings. But I should discuss it with my guys is there any contradiction, is it possible and, if yes, then when, according our general plan of development.

Maddox

Hi,

Revizto now is working on Win 8:

http://www.revizto.com/community/blog/revizto-update-version-one-one