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3 hours ago, stevenyhof said:

I purged those things and it did not change. I am including the plan. It may be my molding I use around the house that is stone. I have a few region trim boards on the elevations, but I have that on a number of my homes. If you open the plan and open the front elevation and drag one of the region boards, or anything for that matter you will experience the lag.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HpRKPxrJlsF4Ru_idKphKKWaS7_9JNVA/view?usp=sharing

 

Thoughts anyone?

Thank you

just had to use zoom and shared my screen..abysmal performance..glad I dont use that anymore, haha

2 hours ago, plannedRITE said:

Not a great title but I'm not sure how to best summarize.

 

Is there a way to create separate schedules for the same framing categories within the same view/plan? It almost works perfectly by using rooms but the rim joists are not contained within a room, darn it. Can I somehow create a schedule for the members in Module "A" and a separate one for Module "B"?

I'm hoping to accomplish something similar to this:

I also noticed that chief puts rim joists and floor joists both under the same category for schedules, even though they are specified under different "Roles". Not sure if much can be done about that one.

 

I appreciate the input.

you can make anything that reports to a schedule report to a custom schedule.

1 minute ago, stevenyhof said:

I Just tested Google Meet with a client and right from the start there was delay to my clicking around. She also said that my voice was breaking up. I stopped the meeting and met he on zoom and while things we still laggy at times (what I have been used to), she said my voice was very clear. So, onto the next video conference tool to test.

not a fan of meet either. I use streamyard which is for more than just video conf calls. Also loom does a great job I hear and transcribes the entire meeting along with downloadable transcribed content with chapterization

1 hour ago, Jerseymike said:

 

There is a Ramshead in the door trim catalogs that is close to this but it does come with fluted pilasters

7 minutes ago, Jerseymike said:

I am looking to add a rams head pediment to an entrance door and cannot find one . Anyone know how I can accomplish this.

do you have a photo of what you are looking for? There are some in the White River Hardwoods Catalog

1 minute ago, stevenyhof said:

That’s good to hear. I don’t use it much for rendering but on bigger drawings while on a zoom call can make it a little slow. Then maybe I do wait for the 50xx graphics cards. 

That's because zoom is using hardware acceleration and heavily fights the encoder as it isnt very optimized. Also the reason I do not use Zoom

28 minutes ago, Curt_Morgan said:

Is the only way to change what floor an object is on is to copy it, paste in place and delete the original? This seems clunky.  Is there not a dropdown menu somewhere that allows quick adjustment of what floor the object is on similar to changing layers?  Any help is appreciated.

I responded on my YouTube but you can simply cut the object (ctrl+x) and paste hold it on another floor. thats 3 hotkeys that can be performed in under 2 seconds...modal windows take longer than that to open so its the fastest way

8 minutes ago, stevenyhof said:

Thank you, Kbird. You have been very helpful in learning about computer systems. I will definitely look into this deeper. 

Nothing wrong with your current computer system..not worth the money IMO. My ten year old mobo and cpu on the Evil Dead machine in my sig is only 20% slower than triptych top of the line computer when it comes to raytracing. We are talking just a second or two

12 minutes ago, stevenyhof said:

So this is what I get...

https://my-plan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/v/mDoM5AhdW86l4aMHuAfV

 

Thoughts?

you could probably report that, but I don't think it will get very far. Truth of the matter is that this isnt a spherical image, and chief knows it, you would get warping as it was stretching around a globe. It didnt used to work this way but it works in a way that benefits more beginners because they just want to load in an image and have it show in the background. So instead of a planer projection chief is doing something else to make it easier for you.
Instead...make a true spherical image in photoshop and load it up and use that instead, it will work as I showed in the video since those are backdrops I created

9 minutes ago, stevenyhof said:

Wow! Mine is not working like that. That is a big deal to making things work right. Thank you for sharing this, Rene! I have sent this into Chief last week.

What backdrop are you using? Are you sure it’s spherical?

23 minutes ago, DIYJon said:

I have cameras all over my plan to create "before" images of my remodel.  Those cameras will remain in place and after I make my changes to the plan, I'll create images again.  With over 20 cameras placed, is there a way to select all cameras and export a PNG of the view without doing each one manually?

 

I'm not ray tracing at this point, just grabbing the 3D view.

 

Thanks.

this would be called a batch rendering and now you cannot. It's part of this suggestion post:

I just spent about 25 minutes on chiefs Crowne Point Model.
generated grass to replace my grass texture. a quick grunge overlay on roof, some hand drawn elements on the stone and a bit of editing. its not perfect but it took 25 minutes from opening the file, which needed a few fixes, to editing the shot:

13 minutes ago, stevenyhof said:

 

Yes, for sure on the materials. I did spend a bit of time in Twinmotions creating materials and all the maps. I need to do the same with Chief.

_____________

 

Ok, so I thought the picture looked a little like it had just rained a little so I wanted to add some water puddles. I also updated my pool and updated my water image in photoshop...

 

Here you can see where I placed the grunge and puddles

 

I have again updated the same Library with Puddles...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XJo7gJ9_KXpR-Pp0COgzfKdpmXtVjPE_/view?usp=sharing

 

Now I need to get back to work

 

A few things stand out at me but I don't know if you are going for realism etc. The leaves on the ground will always look fake and throw me off...in fact anything in the foreground, if it isnt perfect..and I mean perfect, just shouldn't be there. Like the plants, I know that's part of the design, but they look so fake that I don't even notice the house. I would use some other photo to illustrate that landscaping and avoid having them in the shot.
the people will always look fake unless you use ai to replace them.
the fire look fake, and photoshop has a fire generated you could use.
the pavers need to be a better texture in my opinion, same with the stone wall.
The black point on your backdrop needs to be lowered...your blacks look like they have a white wash on them.
 

1 minute ago, robdyck said:

because it's quick to enter (an easy double tap on the keyboard) and it's the greatest! Proof...

aha, that one went right over my head. bar down

14 hours ago, stevenyhof said:

At the moment, you can control the Spherical Panoramic Backdrop as a background image, but changing the settings do not show the changes in the window reflections.

You might want to call chief, this works as intended:

16 minutes ago, robdyck said:

I like 99 for obvious reasons

FYI Smoothing angle number represent the angle threshold to which smoothing will be applied on two adjacent faceted faces. This goes in all directions xyz. So this number for obvious reasons can go up to 179, as in 179 degrees before facets are planar

11 minutes ago, robdyck said:

I like 99 for obvious reasons

why was this obvious? why 99?

1 hour ago, stevenyhof said:

I am hoping to try and figure that out

I would spend some time trying to make some better materials. That's always going to be a major difference. You are talking about a software that uses 1K textures vs one that utilizes 4-8K textures
Not to mention TM has a holw lot of other tricks up its sleaves. Bicubic/tri/planar projection re-mapping, sepearate backdrop and light sources from HDRI's, better caustics...all kinds of things

13 hours ago, DHerb2014 said:

Thanks for your comment as well Rosco. I'm running both platforms.

Perry's correct. My colleague uses a very small display setting on his 34" monitor. My eyes aren't as young anymore and I need to use a larger screen display for my 34" Dell monitor (3440 x 1440 and 150% text size) . Learned something new today as well!

Use regular text instead of rich text and it’s not an issue 

22 minutes ago, rcmcdougle said:

walkthru

your sample rate is set to 1000 in rendering technique options on your walkthrough
at 2.5K resolution

• 30 seconds of video
• *30 frames/second=900
• *1000 samples=900,000
• 1000 samples/36 samples-per-second on a 4090 = 25,000 seconds=~ 7 hours to render
  so probably around 10 hours for you
  
  Also you should put a roof on her to mitigate the light bleed at the ceiling
  BTW you are sharing PCI lanes with your graphics cards with those two extra M.2 drives

20 minutes ago, rcmcdougle said:

I just got a new computer up and running with Chief x14. A primary reason for the new box was because I am getting requests from clients for more elaborate presentations. The spec for the old box is X99 mb - I7 5820K cpu - 32 GB ram - RTX 2060 6 GB videocard. The new box is a Z790 mb - I9 14900K cpu - 64 GB ram - RTX 4070 Ti Super 16 GB videocard - with lots of M2 Boot / Swap / Data storage (3 different M2 chips). The good news is that my still frame PBR renders now generate in <6 seconds; less than half the time of the previous box. When I attempt to do a walkthrough with a PBR camera the new box is no better than the old box - about 1 minute per frame @ 1920 x 1080.

 

Additionally, I get a warning beep for a few seconds at the beginning of each frame - same as with the previous box except the beep never ended in that one. I have enabled GPU raytrace in the Chief preferences dialog. I have set System > Display > Graphics in Windows 11 to High Performance for Chief. The nVidia driver is dated 1/18/2024.

 

This performance doesn't seem right to me. I feel I must be missing a setting somewhere but don't know where else to look. Thoughts anyone?

we would need to know the raytrace settings of the walkthrough. save a plan with the walkthrough path, bubble it and upload it

5 minutes ago, MissJane said:

What is the easiest way to add a certain brand of lighting collection to the library? ie: I want to add a light fixture that is not currently available in the catalogs. 

 

Thank you.

 

You would need to find or model a 3d mesh of that object and then convert it to an electrical fixture class, specifiy it as a light, and generate the offsets for your light source as well as any other lighting data you may need. You'd also need to specify how it mounts and you may need to adjust the offsets of XYZ in the 3d panel of the light's dbx

bringing this back from the dead:

2 hours ago, RyannReed said:

@rlackoreThanks, this is helpful as well. I think I want to do something similar to what you have set up with Azure/OneDrive (just using Google Drive). I have a feeling with a small design team, we can easily work out the process of "Don't open files from the network" until we have some sort of version control or check-in/checkout process. 

 

Thanks again!

have had terrible working experiences using google drive for sync caching issues and file redundancy when the sync is delayed.
Onedrive has these issues as well but not nearly as bad. But onedrive is incredibly slow
Dropbox is the gold standard.
or use a NAS

You'd have to do some modeling for the windows but you could use a roof plane: