Atlantis is a photorealistic rendering system by Abvent SA, France. It consists of two applications: Vision to set projection and lighting characteristics, and Render to attach materials to surfaces and to make the final rendered image.
Atlantis Render works with perspective projections only. If you try to save an axonometric or orthogonal view in Atlantis format, you will be notified by an alert box.
• Light source required.
Atlantis Render requires the presence of at least a single light source, either the Sun or a lamp. If both light source types are switched off in the PhotoRendering Settings/Effects dialog box in ArchiCAD, you will be notified by an alert box.
• Atlantis Vision will not open the document.
Vision is a front end to Render. It opens different 3D document formats and adds lighting and perspective definitions, then it saves a document for Render in its special file format.
The document you save from ArchiCAD has this special format as well. It includes all lighting and perspective information you would otherwise edit with Vision.