March 2022
Flex Tokens have arrived for Autodesk® Cloud Rendering! Learn more
December 2018
The engine used for cloud renderings has been updated to improve the quality of the rendering output and to address some issues with the previous rendering engine.
Because of these changes, previously rendered scenes may look different when rendered with the new engine. As a result, you may need to adjust scenes that were optimized for the previous rendering engine.
Revit
Best practice: When rendering in the cloud, use the new material types in Revit to achieve the best results.
- Overall quality is improved. A new algorithm produces less noise in renderings.
Before After 
- Material appearance is consistent with in-product Revit renderings. The implementation of materials for in-product rendering uses the same shader code base as the cloud rendering service. Material settings for in-product renderings produce the same results as cloud rendering.
- Lighting enhancements reduce the darkening effect in the corners of a rendering.
Before After 
- Lighting placed close to a surface no longer creates light splotches.
Before After 
- The height of water waves is no longer unitless. Use material settings to adjust waves on water.
Default Wave Height Reduced Wave Height 
- Rendering a scene with no light source now results in a black image rather than an image with flat colors.
- Panoramas no longer support solid color backgrounds. Download a panorama image with an alpha channel and use an image editing application to add the desired color (or other image) in the background.
- IES webs are now rotated in the correct direction. IES webs adjusted for the previous rendering engine must be re-adjusted to achieve the correct light dispersion.
- Missing textures are replaced with black in the rendering instead of white. Missing textures are reported when the scene is uploaded to the rendering service.
- Rendering performance is improved. Rendering jobs with multiple frames (solar studies and stereo panoramas) are distributed to multiple cloud nodes for faster processing.
User Experience Improvements
- A new post-processing user interface provides an easy way to switch between looks using preset exposure adjustment curves (linear, neutral, mild, and vivid). A custom curve allows you to manually set highlights, mid-tones, and shadows for the rendered view.
- Color Correction and Color Preservation can be turned on and off explicitly.
- An enhanced bloom effect adds realism to views.
- The look of scenes using automatic exposure settings is improved.
- When processing multi-frame renderings, the online viewer shows progressive rendering of each frame.
- Solar studies can be downloaded as video files.
Limitations and Best Practices
- If surfaces in your rendering have circular artifacts, the likely cause is overlapping geometry. Check that surfaces are not duplicated or intersecting.
- Emissive decals now properly render as emissive, which may cause them to appear white and washed out. Use an emissive opaque material to achieve the desired effect.
Before After Opaque Emissive 
- Light elements placed coincident to the light fixture geometry may cause artifacts or cause the light to not emit. To avoid issues, separate the light and the fixture geometry.
- Light elements placed behind translucent, frosted, or semi-transparent materials prevent the light paths from being resolved accurately. For best results, place the light element in front and use a slightly emissive material for the shade material behind.
- Point lights placed throughout a scene to raise the ambient light level are now visible in reflective materials. For best results, remove any point lights and place actual light fixtures to light the scene. Then use exposure adjustments to lighten the scene if needed.
- When rendering Panorama and Stereo Panorama views, only frames that are in progress or completed are shown in the preview. When using the advanced exposure setting, the preview has a different exposure from the final image.
May 2018
My Renderings page:
- The old interface of My Renderings page was retired. The new interface is now the default.
- You can upload and render from .dwg and .f3d files ncow in the New page.
- You can rerender multiple views at once now.
Revit:
- Revit models with Single Day or Multi-Day Sun Settings will no longer be rendered as Solar Study Previews (9-grid images). The first frame will be rendered as Still Image.
Fusion:
- Bloom effects can be previewed real time in the rendering gallery when you do post-processing.
March 2017
- The My Renderings page has a new user-interface.
June, 2015
General:
- You can view Stereo Panorama on mobile devices via QR code.
- Stereo Panorama are free to render until August 31st, 2015.
- Removed Share to Facebook.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed the issue of overexposed RPCs.
- Removed exposure-adjusting menu from Stereo Panorama renderings.
- Fixed the issue of generating Stereo Panorama URLs.
Fusion:
- Added the ability to select views to be rendered automatically when saving a new version.
- In-progress preview updates more frequently.
- Free render coupons feature is available from render settings.
Interactive Rendering (Beta):
- Asset browser has a new user-interface, including asset data cards.
- Bump map textures available in asset browser and can be applied using drag & drop.
- Render settings dialog has been updated.
- New materials (Substance) available for download from Cloud.
- New environment rotation editor is added.
Release of 3ds Max 2016
- Render from Autodesk 3ds Max.
February 2015
- Render as stereo panorama - Create a stereo rendering of your designs and view them with virtual reality goggles.
October 2014
This section lists the changes and new features that have been added to Rendering in A360 in the year leading up to October 31, 2014.
- Render as turntable
- Render from Autodesk Navisworks
- New ways of sorting renderings in the public gallery:
- Following: renderings you have commented on
- Liked: renderings you have liked.
- Featured: projects highlighted by the Rendering in A360 team.
- Interactive rendering of Fusion 360 models
- Light Analysis feature for Revit
- Render Gallery renamed to My Renderings