About People in Rendering

Revit includes ArchVision® realpeople™ for more realistic renderings. ArchVision realpeople are pictures of actual people and objects from multiple angles that display using a technique called image-based rendering. They are part of ArchVision's RPC (Rich Photorealistic Content) product family.

In a Revit entourage family for people, you can use an RPC file to specify a render appearance. You can place people in floor plans and 3D views, where each person is represented by a placeholder. (You cannot place people in elevation views or section views.) When you render a 3D view, the people are displayed in detail.

Revit provides 2 RPC families for people: RPC Male and RPC Female (for metric systems, M_RPC Male and M_RPC Female). In each family, types provide render appearances for different men and women. When you load these RPC families into a project, the Type Selector displays the available people. Select the desired RPC person, and then place it in a project.

If you purchase additional RPC people from ArchVision, you can add types to existing families for the new render appearances, or create families for them. See Creating an RPC Family.