Chiefer

Folks, attached is the cause of all your lightbleed misery.

Sol'n: Uncheck "use camera view settings" and make color white. Thank you!

3 hours ago, Cassidi said:

Hi everyone, 

I am a new user and have successfully created a 3 story commercial/residential building. 

 

Now I need to design the exterior... With commercial stucco panels and a mix of stone and lap.

I can do the lap and stone, but can't figure out how to make customized panels... I can't even get break wall to work properly. 

 

Is there anyway that I can create custom panels in orthographic view? 

 

See attached pic.

Try this:

joints.zip

15 minutes ago, MarshalHamilton said:

Hey guys,

 

I am needing someone to take my completed chief x10 plans and do a really good job creating walk throughs of them.  I have around 15 of these plans that I am needing interior and exteriors done.  A few of them are 10k sqft+ and are no small task. We are fixing to go through a total re-brand and these will be uploaded to our website next to completed photography. Please let me know @ Marshal@HamiltonCustomHomes.com.

 

Thanks!

I can help you.

On 9/29/2017 at 1:37 AM, hrdorlando said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try this.

info@jintudesigns.com

I'll guide you

Post your settings or the plan

1 hour ago, jcaffee said:

Well, you asked for dark.  Here's one that's a bit friendlier...

I think I saw the trees sway...maybe I'm tired, dizzy and sleepy.

Very nice, Jon!

13 hours ago, jcaffee said:

Add an exterior point light source and make the color black.

Do not use Tone Mapping, It will retain the colors that you see in Render View.

6 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

 

is that the artistic effect you were wanting to keep

 

No, it's not. We had a really good line before. Even before X8,

Thanks for the insight.

PS. I found a way to make the lines thinner, I'm saving views in much higher resolution then resizing them to the intended resolution.

1 hour ago, Richard_Morrison said:

I would say that photorealistic quality means that you can't tell if you are looking at a photograph or a computer rendering. As adequate as Chief Architect's rendering capabilities are, I have yet to see to see a Chief rendering where I was scratching my head trying to figure out if it is a photograph or a computer model. Some in this gallery would qualify, though. https://artlantis.com/gallery/  

 

Interestingly, Artlantis used to be commonly used by Chief Architect users, but haven't seen it brought up in years. 

For one, Chief has to improve the material properties like enabling Gloss in order to be photo-realistic, If they can add Gloss in Render View as well as in ray trace mode I will never ask for anything else again. Take note that Lumion does not ray trace at all yet look at their renderings. Their secret is in the material editor and GI. On top of that, one can have a very good rendering in just 12 seconds.

5 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

 

It seems like X8 had a broken line style that appears finer but is inconsistent.  Try changing the line color in X9 to gray to achieve similar results as Kevin's examples.

It is was fine as the lines in Sketchup... I've reported this during Beta to no avail. Try to open an old plan in X8, you'll see.

One more thing, check show shadows.

10 minutes ago, kMoquin said:

Jintu, This was done in X-9. (Looks like I need to update my signature.)

I've noticed the line-weight in the exported seems to be a function of both Chief settings and monitor resolution.

I can't get that fine line in X9. see attached.

x8

x9

They are all on: Try to turn them off one by one to detect.

Just now, kMoquin said:

Here are a couple images of the way I am currently presenting sketchy renderings.

I export a "Standard" view and a "Line Drawing" from the same camera position and at the same size.  I open the standard view in Gimp then add import the Line drawing as an  layer and adjust the transparency.

Nice Watercolor w/ Line drawing effect.

We don't have that fine lineweight in X9 anymore.

You can assign Frame X to Floor 2. No need to start a new spline.

On 8/25/2017 at 2:25 PM, Renerabbitt said:

Yes that's not what chief is intended to do, I shot your scene through Thea Render, with no post processing, took a little over an hour to do. You also need to use better models... bed you used is a very low poly count, as well as the curtains, and the fan isn't material mapped appropriately, neither is the bed frame. If you wanted it to be photorealistic it would probably take an additional 10 hours for a seasoned designer.

Final

Obj ID

Mat ID

 

 

Thea, truly, is unbiased. Great rendering!

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You have to buy Vray, Corona or Thea ..or Luxrender if you want the same photo-realism

Play with the settings more, You might hit the jackpot. :-)

Here are some of our Chief renderings -

Try Watercolor Rendering Technique:

Make all patterns "Area"

Settings:

Hi Krunal,

Here are the settings.

z jintusettings.zip

Ok.

I'm Jintu, may we know yours?

Is this an x9 plan?

https://cloud.chiefarchitect.com/1/samples/interiors/mod-living-room.jpg

I created that scene in 2012 or 13 in X5 to compare rendering engine at that time.

Rendering below was my X5 version of the said scene.

Post a plan, we will render it and send our settings back to you.