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Personal opinion, its far more efficient to trace your contours in chief..takes less than 20 minutes for most lots using elevation splines. Imports tend to bring in too much information.

shouldn't be a problem selecting a fixture like a mirror, can you possibly do a screen recording of what you are doing to try and select it in a perspective camera?

well I have someone that would upgrade your existing if you wanted to go that route. I might even help him out. I just finished kindve a whacky build for myself. I am sponsored by AMD so I just put together a hybrid build based on a test bench: Kind've a fun project. If you don't want to put together a frankenbuild, I might suggest cyberpowerpc for desktops and eluktronics for laptops. More to come tomorrow

Are you experiencing slow downs? Win 11 RAM management is built to use advanced memory compression and allocation, so it uses as much ram as possible and then reallocate as needed...its not like the way we used to manage ram back in pre-win 10 days...so even though it shows a heavy utilization, this doesn't directly correlate to a lack of avaialble memory. A suspended tab is one thing, but bookmarking and closing a tab kills the process of that tab Are you using the new memory saver of chrome. Chrome is the big resource hag because every tab is its own process. If the wifey is hard up on her tabs(I'm heavy into system analysis, and would poke one more time that this is terribly inefficient) then its time for a motherboard swap, and at that point you'd question budget for such a thing and if its worth it to grab a new machine. Are you sure that 32gb is max? Some mobo mfr release bios updates to support more ram. NVME drives are just way faster than traditional SSD's Motherboards for that socket type are less than $100. DDR4 Sticks are super cheap, like $50. You'll need a bigger power supply for the newer cards. a 1tb NVME drive is cheap rn too. You could save $1K by revaming your machine. Up to you

Im in Caifornia, feel free to reach out

Sounds like you’ve got some other issues in chief, post an example plan through a Dropbox link. Are you on win 11? Much better ram management there. Are you using google chromes new features for suspended tabs? Also, I don’t know of anyone who can efficiently keep track of 20 tabs let alone 100, it would be far more efficient in terms of hardware specific workflow to bookmark tabs in a temp folder. 32gb should be plenty. I would upgrade your hard drives to m.2 nvme drives and your graphics card to a 4080/90 or a 7900xtx if you want higher end

You would always need to download the file. Chief will not work with online-based files. You can not work on the same file at the same time(You can work on a duplicate of a file at the same time)

Interested..here is an example:

I have one but its not free, its part of my fireplace builder tools: https://www.rabbittdesign.net/shop/p/thefireplacetools

This is really more about the limit of the render engine being used, more than the imlementation of it in Chiefs environment You could always switch to the CPU based rendering engine in Chief...or just wait to see what magiv they are bringing to X16. Also did you try my suggestion of switching to a point light with a shrowd, or creating the shrow and specifying it as a light and adding your own light sources....the rope light is not modeled the same as your example light so why would it have the same characteristics?

Simply put, this is how the spot light was designed. Keeping in mind that this software is a multi renderer unlike a dedicated rendering plugin, lighting has to look good in standard as well as CPU ray trace and again this is a single path trace. I can’t tell you exactly why it was designed this way but I have a good idea. If you turn off all lights, ambient light with some good materials makes for a great rendering.. so I imagine the point light is simply to fake a beam spread similar to an IES profile. Try this for instance, set your lights color to red and see how it affects the room… then switch to a point light.

Could instead use a window and draw a roof at the rise angle and use match shape

Streamyard doesn’t require a software download on the clients end, has a private chat, banners, and not that you asked, but it can stream to multiple social platforms at once if you ever have the need. Can also host webinars

Or maybe it doesn’t, no offense to chief, but sometimes they get it wrong. If you’ve saved materials to your library that used the pattern generator tool then you’re trying to load 1000’s of vector lines. try removing the user library from your data folder while chief is shut down and then open chief again. It will generate a new library.. is it still slow? Also use the OOTB residential template that is in your program data folder. Chief previews library items based on your template.. is it still slow then?

Network Access Storage like Synology..you essentially create a cloud service with your own physical hardware

I will still be using my system. its bulletproof. Though I will distribute my shop items through their access system

You've touched on some crucial points about the intricacies of real-time ray tracing engines, but we are dealing with single path trace environments. Absolutely, better contrast in evenly lit scenes is achievable, but it does require tweaking the exposure settings. This is where Ambient Occlusion (AO) maps become vital. They help in maintaining the right black levels in unlit and occluded areas. The complexity increases with single path tracing, particularly when integrating specific lighting types like under counter lights. These are designed for low light projection and we'rent designed to be used as soffit lighting. OOTB 4-inch intervals can create challenges due to overlapping light data. The engine, having to choose a single light source, can indeed result in unrealistic overhead lighting effects.The better approach would be to revert back to point lights and make a light shield for uniform lighting. You could try to switch emitters to 24 inches apart makes sense for a more accurate representation. Adjusting the drop-off rate to 1 or 1.5 for a 170-degree cut, coupled with an rope lights with a 60-degree cut-off and a drop-off rate of 4, seems like a sound approach. From there, fine-tuning lumens and exposure will be key. Still think point light with a shield is a better option Understanding the behavior of single light traces is critical. They recognize lit surfaces but not the specific light source, leading to the engine picking an emitter based on its algorithm. For more precise lighting, transitioning to a CPU ray trace or another rendering engine might be necessary, as single light traces typically employ a Monte Carlo method which can be limited in these scenarios.

Its been a priority update for years..but they can't infringe on copyrights for other cloud based systems and they had to build a server setup...takes years..the preview was looking pretty good

Too many sync issues, too many file locking issues, redundency checks, conflicted copies, etc. Dropbox is worlds apart...and I am a G-Suite guy

I've gone through a 1000 setups. I am a very very advanced cloud user. Either a NAS or Dropbox...onedrive/google drive are crap. Don't try and setup a single sync data folder..It's a logistical nightmare. Every approach will be a process...nothing will ever simply be seemless until chief updates with their cloud Project Managements thats been in development for 3+ years 1 method..my preferred method for teams other than my own: Share a dropbox folder do NOT rename the plan files rename the folders containing plan and layout to track your versioning copy paste an entire version folder and rename folder for next iteration of the project's design export all material files for the project into your version folders Thats it, easy peasy. Cons: File Bloat..archive it and offline revious versions(selective sync)

very clever

simple-ish..takes 10-30 minutes

a lot more goes into it..turn auto build roofs and foundations off, roof overhang settings, floor to floor defaults, cabinet defaults, material defaults...etc

What would you like to see in the stair tool?