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Turn off refraction in rendering techniques or use 3d trees. @solverOP is referring to RTRT

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I personally prefer adding a bunch of floor levels with a combination of pony walls for my foundation steps. This would be instead of breaking a wall in elevation. I prefer the more donate control across both sides of the structure.

Not a re-render, just an additional channel. This is common in rendering softwares. It’s been a request of mine that we have access to the various channels that are produced in rendering, such as the shadow channel, material and object ids, UV mapping, light and shadow and ao channels etc. this all to say that you can think of the background image and effect as a separate layer.

Ah I see the disconnect, MY lack of specificity. When you export an image using the image exporter(alt,f,e,p) you have the option to export as a png and enable Transparent Background. So my suggestion is that you use a backdrop with little to no predominant colors or keep the backdrop turned off, then export as a png with transparent background and simple replace the background in an image editor.. Also, here is a short vid showing sun manipulation and backdrop editing: 220307-Compressed (2).mp4

Thank you both!

Someone here once gave me a great lead on a Performance Calc contractor. I think it was @dshall Anyone have that lead, mightve been Perry? I don't remember Perry's tag maybe @DRAWZILLA

What are you trying to accomplish with this action? I did not quite follow.

Just thought I would chime in with a couple of thoughts. If people finding this thread really want to improve their renderings it would be a good idea to learn a photo editing software and replace the backdrop altogether. Yes the backdrop will cast light into your scene, so why not do away with it and export as a .png with transparent background. From there you simply drop in a new backdrop. Takes all of 2 minutes and then you aren't dealing with color casting. I still use the backdrop in some scenes but its important to manually rotate your sun. I never turn down my sun settings, but when you rotate the sun, you will find that it stops illuminating your backdrop depending on the angle of rotation. The only setting then that I change is the suns angle and backdrop intensity. It takes me nearly no time, just a few minutes

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Chief overhauled its rendering engine specifically BECAUSE Mac was dropping support for OpenGL, don't think Chief was really asking for that...Your killing machine has always been run by people that don't truly promote opensource, So it will never be a killing machine for me as I utilize a lot of opensource software. Still can't believe I cant send iMessages through my PC...great "work" phone FYI you will get a lot of new little tidbits of goodness when you pump up your resolution and passes(say 5000) and let it sit for a while

HAHA, you knew you were thread hijacking and did it anyway..get outta here. Would love to comment on your stuff, start a new thread!

Oh I didn't notice! very cool. Always like to help out of my town. Feel free to give me a call anytime and can work you through anything in Chief, contact in website. Would say if one of your technicians is spending a ton of time in layout that is usually an indicator that they could use some workflow improvements. I spend very little time in layout as I use the SAM method and automation and annotation is best suited in plan.

I would ignore the layout time tracker as time is often redundant, unless you export to CSV and write a comparator for both for overlapping times. Timeout is based on idle, meaning triggerable actions in plan. Doesnt matter that you change to a layout window

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@robdyckand @HumbleChief in your edit toolbar with arc selected: This of course will bypass chord length.

Not to dissuade the suggestion can you post an example plan..10 seconds is a long time, curious if I have some helpful advice for you

I would STRONGLY discourage both of these options. Why are you turning off your background and setting no sun? The OP's desired result is a daylit condition with a background.

These are some of the few elements that carry macro values, which is why I use them as well. But annotations, such as the OP was suggesting, are ill advised. All of SH text notes are in plan, as well as elevation callouts or notes.

None of his finished work uses notes or callouts in Layout, it really is an uncommon practice. Plan carries with it so much BIM component based information. Not only do you miss out on the opportunity to take advantage of this information, but you cannot globally change active defaults if you are annotating in layout. Punny as it is, annotating in Layout is "dumb" as in we have no "smart" features to utilize.