ThomasM

That is tricky.

There are 3rd party plugins for Sketchup that help do this sort of thing, but I am going to tell you right now its a rabbit hole that may lead to spending much more time than simply rebuilding the scene in CA and taking another render. Can you share the picture here so I can see what you're trying to do specifically?

I have attached the picture.  to me everything looks real except the furniture

You could build a basic 3D model (including furniture) in Chief.

Turn off everything except the furniture and do a 3D view that matches your room picture.

Create an image from the 3D view and import it into the room picture in Photoshop

wow I would love to learn how to do that.  thank you.

by turn off do you mean make invisible?

Tom

Photoshop does support 3D imports, and there are some very cool things you can do with it, but exporting back out to CA from that point may be doable, but very tricky. Both apps support DAE. However, Id really love to know why you would want to do that - what are you trying to do?

someone sent me a picture and it looks like everything is real except for the furniture.  the furniture looks like it was put there with a program like chief architect.  I don't want to import 3d into photoshop but do want to take a regular picture and change it to 3D, once 3D i want to add furniture.  there may be an easier way to do this.

Hello All,

I was doing a tutorial the other day in Photoshop CC and was wondering.

Can I take a picture of a room, turn it into a 3d image using Photoshop, import that picture
into chief and use chief to furnish it? if so any pointers you can give me on where to learn more about it would be great.
 

Thank you.
Tom

im going to take a break and think about eating King Crab in Alaska.  I am working on a few other projects but would love to work more with this program.
I am the type of person that isn't really happy unless I am doing my best and always open to those that would share how to do things better.

I wonder why I am unable to up load the plan - was told file was too large but it is small as far as plans go.

Tom
King Crab

Tom, the issue is related to lighting only. Also, the settings I provided are very basic settings. Just remember to turn off all light sources or these settings may not resolve the problem. Bringing the light sources back in will likely require some other adjustments to get the scene to Raytrace correctly.

 

Graham

no need for me to use lights.  these settings are giving me amazing results. and yes, I am starting to understand that this software has a lot to offer and like someone else mentioned - doing this is a form of art and I like it.  I have lots of questions but try to figure them out on my own and for the most part only ask for help when its time sensitive.  if you ever come to New York I would like to buy you a drink. fyi.. I just tried the link in your profile and it doesn't work.

Tom

just as a test I did a ray trace on another layout that didn't have sparkles.  I am getting them even on this one.
I brought back everything to default that I can and still getting the sparkles.  can this some how be related to my updating my video card drivers?
might be a very silly question but it is the only thing I can think of.  no biggie I will use the settings that Graham gave me. if I get the chance I would like to know
why all of a sudden this is happening.  I am pretty sure this is the same way it was last time I ray traced it with out a problem.  its not very important for me to find out
just curious.... as I am still working.  I actually like talking about this stuff.

Tom

Chief should advertise this particular post. One of the most awesome examples of how amazing this community is.

...just beautiful

I agree.  some outstanding people in here.  I am very thankful.

to learn which setting caused the floor to turn so dark.. I am redoing the adjustments one at a time

took me a while but I think I found it.  that tool is now called Adjust Material Definition tool.  seems like Ray Trace is working much faster now.

you have helped me more than you realize.  this was very important for me to have something to show today.

to learn which setting caused the floor to turn so dark.. I am redoing the adjustments one at a time. 

forgot to attach picture

Ok, first problem, sparkles has been resolved. Now lets get rid of the high intensity sun light.

 

- Open Raytrace DBX

- Click "Edit"

- Select "Lighting"

- Uncheck "Use Camera View Settings"

- Set "Use Ambient Occlusion", min = 0.1, max = 10

- Set "Direct Sunlight = 0

- Uncheck "Enable Environmental Lighting"

- Select "Advanced"

- Uncheck "Photon Mapping"

 

Run a Raytrace now and post image.

 

Graham

"Lighting", set "Direct Sun Light" =0, uncheck

that was very nice of you.  this is a very complicated program.   most programs I have been able to teach myself (what I needed from them)  Photoshop, premiere, dream weaver, MS office,  the only time I was unable to teach myself was

when trying to build an online database using PHP.  I latterly sat there till I got frozen shoulder lol.  I did not think this program would be so difficult.  ok got a view from the Ray Trace.  walls look very reflective and the floors are now very dark.

ray trace pass 82.0

now it seems that no matter what I do the apartment stays dark.  the sun is set no matter what the settings tilt angle and direction angle and restoring defaults have no effect.

I opened up a new camera window and have control over the sun again.  the reason for the sun being in the middle was because that is where I put it to get rid of shadows without turning shadows off.  I didn't have the sparkle problem until I shut off shadow's.  I updated drivers on video card last night.

keeps telling me file is too large to post plan

Looks like a lighting issue. Suspect you are relying on the light fixtures (table lamps) to light your entire scene. You likely need to add some 3D area lights to increase the overall ambient lighting. If you are using your camera view settings in the Raytrace DBX you could also try increasing the light settings in the 3D view settings. I never use the camera view settings for Raytracing but I know many do.

 

Just out of interest how many passes and how long are you running this for.

 

 

Also, if you post the plan it would be easier to make some more specific suggestions.

 

Graham

Looks like a lighting issue. Suspect you are relying on the light fixtures (table lamps) to light your entire scene. You likely need to add some 3D area lights to increase the overall ambient lighting. If you are using your camera view settings in the Raytrace DBX you could also try increasing the light settings in the 3D view settings. I never use the camera view settings for Raytracing but I know many do.

 

Just out of interest how many passes and how long are you running this for.

 

 

Also, if you post the plan it would be easier to make some more specific suggestions.

 

Graham

I have deleted the lights and was still getting it.  I forgot how many passes.  I did several tests and each one was a different length of time. never less than 10 and could have gone up to 30.  I shut all the lights off and adjusted the sun.

the sparkles are gone but I cant get rid of what looks like the fun shining right smack in the middle of the layout.  I have been changing the sun but that thing just stays there.  I also put shadows back on but adjust the sun so that there is very little shadow from sun light.  ok I will post the plan.. thank you

thank you

Tom

Shelby - good ray tracing takes some time and patience.  It's not a flip the switch kind of thing

but more of an art form.  You have to experiment with different types of lights and their locations

until you get what you want.  ALso, the adjust image properties as Michael suggested.  Different

scenes with different elements and textures present their own challenges.  Good Luck!

I knew this but forgot.  I have been just letting ray trace do its thing.  today I started with the sun angle but getting a lot of sparkles when I ray trace.

 thanks for the reminder.

Hello,

I am trying to stop the sparkles that have started to appear during Ray Trace. 
I searched every menu I thought would lead me to the answer with no luck.

I did shut off shadows in perspective floor view but the shadows appear during ray trace ( don't want them to)
I also shut off shadows in the perspective FV and that might have something to do with the sparkles.  also the ceilings were removed already.

the picture is attached.

thank you

Tom

If you didn't mess with it, it should be a folder titled Chief Architect Premier X8 Data>Archives>plan name_xxxxxxx

 

Look inside that folder for any available backups to the plan.

for the first time in many years... I didn't even give it a name.. just started working.  cant find anything in any of the chief folders with todays date.  . .. it wont happen again

thank you all that showed me your stuff.  it really looks nice.  I wish I would have saved my work before chief crashed tonight lol

Check your X8 data folder>Archives and find the folder for the file you were working on.  You might have an auto saved backup in there (depending on your backup settings).

thank you.... there are a few places where chief stores data.  any idea what the files extension would be?

Hello All,

so there I was... working hard for at least a couple of hours and then... Chief Architect X8 Premier crashed.

thought there would have at least been an auto save.  one time I was very tired and messed up the saving but later found
what I wanted in cache.  cant seem to find anything tonight.  any chance my work is still around?  someplace? anyplace?

my fault.. shoulda saved the work.

thank you

Tom

Here is one I did.

I didn't want you to think I didn't appreciate your uploading that for me. being my clients give me tons of personal information - as a rule of thumb I never down load from this computer, but will from my other.  I will connect it later.  thank you

In fact, here is basicly Lumion without lumion - using just the engine.  All most the programs that do this type of work are interfaces and pre-packaged objects in the Cryengine.

 

My point is if you wanted to freely download cry, and manually create the files you dont have to buy Lumion.  That route will take a LOT more learning.

 

 

 

Unreal engine is fairly good too.  Again, not nearly as easy as Lumion (no matter how easy this video looks).  Although Unreal is now free too ...that is a change.  Wow that that its free that is very cool.  Unreal might be your best bet.

 

this is beautiful stuff.  and eventually I would love to be able to do that.  never really sure just how much I will be able to learn when I start something new.  but I always try and because of the money sometimes it causes some anxiety not knowing if I will be able to learn.  I am finding with this program that it is not only used for work but its sort of becoming a hobby.  lol words of a bored old married guy I know. 

ake a "movie" with tay traced images in Microsoft Movie Maker.

It is not a walk through but if the RT images are sequential you get the same idea

but better looking images.

I do usually import my images to adobe premiere - and then up load to youtube.