# RenderFactor

> Cloud 3D rendering and client presentation for 2020 Design Flex. Kitchen and
> bath designers upload the COLLADA folder 2020 exports, refine finishes,
> lighting and décor in the browser, and batch-render every camera on cloud
> GPUs — no graphics card, no plugin, and the designer's computer stays free.

RenderFactor is an independent product of RenderFactor LLC and is not
affiliated with or endorsed by 2020 Technologies. It works with 2020 Design,
2020 Design Live and Design Flex (Cyncly's current name for the same product):
if your version can Save As COLLADA, it works.

In plain words: it is a photo studio for the kitchen a designer has already
drawn. They bring the room; they choose the finishes, the styling and the
light; the photographs come back. Rendering inside 2020 is one view at a time
on the designer's own laptop; here every view is sent in one press and the
laptop stays free. It is not the right tool for projects drawn in other design
software — it is built and tested for 2020's COLLADA export only — or for
walkthrough videos: it makes still images, PDFs and live 3D links.

How it works: export the project from 2020 Design Flex (Save As → COLLADA into
an empty folder), drag that folder into RenderFactor, finish the scene —
materials, décor from a curated library, lighting and cameras — then render.
Each camera renders in its own cloud container at the same time, so a
five-camera batch takes about as long as one camera. Three things come back:
the pictures (Draft 1280×720 in about 10 s, Studio 1920×1080 in about 30 s,
4K Ultra 3840×2160 in about 2 minutes, with 16-bit masters and scene-linear
EXR at Studio and 4K Ultra); a PDF on the practice's letterhead, in one of
five layouts (a full presentation deck, a portfolio, a one-page summary, a
numbered selection for the client to reply to, and a specification), Letter
by default or A4, never metered; and a live 3D link a client opens in any
browser with no account.

## Upload and import

**Does it accept native .kit files directly?** No. RenderFactor takes the
COLLADA export 2020 Design Flex already makes: Save As → COLLADA into an empty
folder, then drag that folder in. One export step, nothing to configure, and
the original project file never leaves the designer's machine.

**Does it use the actual 2020 geometry, or reconstruct the scene?** The actual
geometry. Every mesh, dimension and placement in the COLLADA export — the same
model 2020 wrote — is converted faithfully and rendered as-is. Nothing is
AI-reconstructed, remodeled or approximated from a screenshot.

**Does it preserve the model exactly?** Every triangle arrives exactly as
authored: no decimation, no welding, no re-meshing, no smoothing — guaranteed
by named tests in the conversion pipeline. The object hierarchy and instancing
survive, and scale is 1:1, read from the export's own unit declaration rather
than assumed. Curved, angled and custom cabinets, moldings, fillers, panels,
toe kicks and appliances are all meshes and arrive at exactly the detail 2020
exported them with; nothing is ever substituted with a lookalike model. An
import report flags anything unusual (a missing texture, an implausible size)
instead of hiding it.

**Are materials transferred automatically?** Yes. The textures in the export
are embedded byte-for-byte and found case-insensitively, and diffuse colours
are colour-managed correctly, so every surface shows exactly what 2020
exported until the designer changes it. Two honest notes: 2020 exports flat
photographs rather than PBR materials — RenderFactor carries those photographs
through unchanged and adds real surface response (relief, sheen, reflection)
on top — and 2020's own light data and cameras are not imported: lighting and
cameras are authored in RenderFactor, where they render better than the
export could describe. The light fixtures themselves still render as geometry.

## Cameras

Full control, saved per shot: true focal lengths from 12 to 200 mm (named
rungs at 18/24/35/50/85 mm), camera height from 0.1 to 3 m (named rungs from
Low 0.6 m to Standing 1.65 m), free orbit and walk navigation, exact position
stored per shot, depth of field from f/1.4 to f/32, and a "keep verticals
straight" toggle for two-point perspective so cabinet lines stay parallel.
Save as many cameras as you like; a saved camera re-renders after any design
change — the shot is remembered, the design underneath it can move. Output is
16:9 today (1280×720 Draft, 1920×1080 Studio, 3840×2160 4K Ultra).

## Lighting

Four fixture types chosen by purpose — recessed downlight, soft ceiling
panel, under-cabinet strip, and narrow-beam accent — placed by clicking where
the light should land; the fitting hangs itself. Per-fixture brightness
(5–200 W, passed to the renderer unchanged) and colour temperature (room-wide
rungs from candle 2200 K to daylight 6500 K, per-fixture override 1800–8000 K,
computed by physical blackbody so preview and render agree). Under-cabinet
runs are grouped automatically — one continuous channel per row of wall
cabinets, one click per row. A light meter reads the room in watts per square
metre. Honest note: interiors are lit entirely by the fixtures you place;
sun, time-of-day and HDRI environments are not offered today.

## Materials and finishes

Ten substances (paint, metal, glass, stone, concrete, ceramic, wood,
laminate, vinyl plank, fabric) with measured finish variants, plus a curated
library of 616 texture patterns with real normal and roughness maps — 556
CC0 from Poly Haven and ambientCG, and 60 we made ourselves.
Choosing paint, glass or metal replaces the exported texture; choosing wood,
stone, tile or laminate keeps the exported photograph and layers real shading
on top, so oak still looks like *that* oak. Texture scale and a grain-turn
dial (snaps to right angles) fix mappings 2020 laid the wrong way. Applying
anything is non-destructive — the original surface is one click back. The décor
library holds 770 models across fifteen categories (seating, tableware,
plants, vessels, lighting, wall art, bath, appliances, closet, accents,
tables, storage, textiles, bar, food), each placed at real-world size with
its own materials. Custom designer-uploaded models and materials are not
offered today: every item in the library is checked for scale, materials
and licence, which is only true because the library is curated.

## Revisions

Everything done in RenderFactor — refinishing, décor, lighting, cameras,
visibility — needs no re-upload, ever: change it in the browser and render
again, and every past render keeps its exact settings so it can be reproduced
later. A change to the room itself (a moved wall, a resized island) goes back
through 2020 and a fresh export, which today is uploaded as a new project.

## Client links and 360° viewing

**What does the client see?** Not a stitched 360° panorama viewed from fixed
points — the actual 3D model, at a clean link, in any browser, no account
needed. The client orbits and zooms the real kitchen with true perspective
from any angle, jumps between the designer's saved views, and sees the
practice's own letterhead (name, phone, logo) live on the page. Links are
private by their address (an unguessable ~100-bit slug), kept out of search
engines, and deletable at any time; the design on a link is frozen at publish
so what the client approved stays what they approved. Plans include 5/20/40
live links per seat; on Pro and Max the page carries no RenderFactor branding
and can be served from the practice's own domain. To offer a client two
options, publish two labelled links ("Option A — oak island", "Option B —
walnut") — each opens instantly in its own tab.

## Data ownership and privacy

What you put in is yours, and what comes out is yours too: uploads, rendered
images, documents and client pages belong to the customer, usable
commercially with no credit required. Customer content is never used to train
AI models, never sold, and never used to promote RenderFactor — this is
stated in the Terms and the Privacy Policy. Bytes live in Cloudflare R2 and
Supabase (United States), encrypted in transit and at rest by the providers
that store them; access is scoped to the customer's own workspace, and
visitors to a published page are not tracked. Files age out on the plan's
retention schedule (30 days to 12 months, with a warning email first);
deleting a project removes its files at once, and account deletion — one
email to support@renderfactor.com — is completed within 30 days. RenderFactor
only ever reads the export; it never writes back to a 2020 project.

## Company and support

RenderFactor is owned and operated by RenderFactor LLC, a Wyoming limited
liability company (Sheridan, WY, USA). Support is by email at
support@renderfactor.com. RenderFactor is independent of, and not affiliated
with or endorsed by, 2020 Technologies or Cyncly.

## What renders it

RenderFactor runs its own physically based path-tracing pipeline on cloud
GPUs (NVIDIA L4), tuned for interiors: full global illumination with up to 32
light bounces, 3840×2160 output at 4K Ultra, glossy and
refractive caustics, physical blackbody light colour, GPU-accelerated Intel
Open Image Denoise, and AgX filmic tone mapping — the same view transform as
the in-browser preview, so the finished render matches what the designer set
up. Output is 8-bit PNG at Draft, 16-bit PNG plus scene-linear OpenEXR at
Studio and 4K Ultra. The jump over a workstation render is not one setting — it
is server-grade GPU hardware, production sampling and bounce depths,
per-camera parallelism, real lighting tools, and a curated décor and material
library, applied to every image.

## The side-by-side test

The honest way to judge any renderer is your own kitchen at full resolution.
That is what the free trial is for: every plan starts with 14 days free —
10 Draft and 3 Studio images and one live client link per seat — enough to
render a real project at every quality and put it beside what you have
today, before anything is charged. A card is taken when you begin and
charged only when the trial ends; cancel before then and nothing is charged.

## Pricing

Prices in US dollars, per seat, billed monthly. Everyone in a practice can
open every project; a seat is what lets a designer render. Each seat carries
its own images, speed and client links. Only rendered images are metered.

- Starter — $49 per seat/month: 100 Draft and 50 Studio images a month, fast
  renders, 30 days of history, 5 live client links.
- Pro — $99 per seat/month: 200 Draft, 100 Studio and 50 4K Ultra images a
  month, renders 2x faster than Starter, 90 days of history, 20 live client
  links, publishing on your own domain.
- Max — $149 per seat/month: 400 Draft, 200 Studio and 100 4K Ultra images a
  month, renders 4x faster than Pro, 12 months of history, 40 live client
  links, publishing on your own domain.

Every plan starts with 14 days free — 10 Draft and 3 Studio images and 1
live client link per seat — and a card is taken when you begin. Start the
plan whenever ready and a full month's images are granted at once;
otherwise it starts by itself when the trial ends. Cancel before then and
nothing is charged.

## Links

- [Homepage](https://renderfactor.com/): what it does, the five steps in the
  real app, image quality, Scene Designer, speed, what comes back, pricing
  and FAQ
- [2020 Design rendering, explained](https://renderfactor.com/2020-design-rendering):
  engines, speed, quality, and cloud rendering
- [Make 2020 renders look better](https://renderfactor.com/better-2020-renders)
- [EZ Render vs Redway vs Cycles](https://renderfactor.com/render-engines)
- [What computer 2020 rendering needs](https://renderfactor.com/rendering-hardware)
- [How to export a 3D model from 2020 Design Flex](https://renderfactor.com/export-guide)
- [Rendering a 2020 design in Blender](https://renderfactor.com/2020-design-to-blender)
- [Share a design as a live 3D link](https://renderfactor.com/client-links)
- [What survives the export](https://renderfactor.com/fidelity)
- [Camera, lighting and material control](https://renderfactor.com/controls)
- [Is it safe to upload client designs?](https://renderfactor.com/your-data)
- [Sign up](https://app.renderfactor.com/signup): start a 14-day free trial
- [Privacy policy](https://renderfactor.com/privacy)
- [Terms of service](https://renderfactor.com/terms)
- [Refund policy](https://renderfactor.com/refunds)