MaryAnne

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  1. I also just clicked on "use Photon mapping" and it made a difference but I do not know what this means and I have tried looking it up but that did not help. What does photon mapping do and it appears that it is not always used???? 

  2. This is a regular picture but in performing a ray trace, I get black ceilings. I saw one post that suggested clicking on lighten ceilings. I don't even know where that "button" is. Any thoughts?

     

    Thanks

    Mary Anne

    Cafeteria concept.jpg

  3. In performing a ray trace, my ceilings which are white always come out black. I have tried adding lights with the "light bulb " icon and changing elevations, but this does not work. I have Chief X9. I really need to figure out to solve this issue.

    Antone have the magic answer? Thanks Mary Anne

  4. I am trying to place supports as well as accents on an outdoor structure using the "T"s and right angled brackets. hen I click on them to place them on a column. It does nothing. How am I able to use these on structure and where I choose.

    Thanks Mary Anne

  5. When attempting to do a full overview of my project, I get an extremely small image and cannot zoom in or rotate house to get the image I want. This is because somewhere on my plan is an object that I cannot see. It is in the distant plan. Does anyone know how to find the object in order to delete it? I have managed to find one small puck light that went into never never land but there must be another because I am not able to zoom in.

    Thanks Mary Anne

  6. I have always been able to do a floor overview and turn the camera in order to see all angles of my room. For some reason while working on the same project, when I click on floor overview, the image comes up extremely small and I cannot rotate it at all. It is quick to disappear off the screen when I try to zoom into it.

     

    What am I doing wrong? This has never happened before. I gotten out of the program and then back in and nothing changes.

    Mary Anne

  7. I keep attempting to make a glass shower walls but when I view them with the camera, they come up as a drywall, a thin wall as I have selected a glass wall but it  is a hit and miss. What am I doing wrong?

     

    I also makes breaks in my wall to attempt the tile from engulfing all the walls and this work either. Any help would be appreciated.

    Mary Anne :angry:

  8. Mary Anne:

     

    Welcome to ChiefTalk.

     

    I think that if you connect your Gazebo to the house with railing walls, you can accomplish what you are trying to do.  Make sure that the room created by the railing walls is checked for roof above (and possibly a ceiling depending on the design spec's).  The railing wall newels can extend up to a beam supporting your roof.  You can resize the newels in the dialog when opened.  You can also change the style of newel if you don't want to use a fancier one from the library.  Study up on railing walls, porches etc.  I agree with Bill .... watch all the videos you can. There may be some articles on the Help Database site that you can read/study as well.  As Alan said, the best way to get good help is with documentation, whether it is images of what you want to do or an actual plan with your work progress to date. 

     

    Below is a quick sample of what you can do with railing walls.  Both the open front porch as well as the gazebo have railing walls.  The roof was built automatically by Chief. 

     

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    Don't forget to post some images of your project after you get it built.  Good luck.

     

    PS:  The gazebo shape is very easy to do since Chief provides that for us ... look for "Polygon Shaped Deck" in the deck railing tools.  Pick the number of sides you want and the length of each side.  We used to have to do this in a more cumbersome manner.

     

     

    Thank you very much. I am going to try these suggestions. Mary Anne

  9. I am trying to make a roof that is attached to a 2 storey home that will act as a roof only because it is supported by pillars to act as "covered gazebo" when exiting the house from patio doors. I do not know how to do this. The roof is to be attached to the first floor only and is not part of the second floor roof. Could this be explained to me. Thank you very much!

    Mary Anne- Home Design On A Budget :unsure: