Rich_Winsor

Well, there you have it. Chopsticks comes thru again.

If I'm not mistaken Alaskan_Son did a nice video

demonstrating how to build that. The bad news is

that I wouldn't know where to start a forum search

for said video. Perhaps you should look him up or

vice versa.

7 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

Has anyone found a laptop powerful enough to run X9 at a decent speed?  If so, could you provide the specs?  Last time I looked into this the only thing that came close was an Alienware gaming laptop for about $2600.

Asus just released some new gaming laptops.

http://edgeup.asus.com/2017/rog-strix-gaming-laptop-guide-gl503-gl703-scar-hero/?utm_source=EDM&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=GL503 EDM - US

Upon further review.... I see what you are saying.

For some reason the center of the sidewalk now

snaps to the street side of the curb, thus creating

the problem. In X8 the center of the sidewalk used

to snap to the sidewalk side of the curb. Looks

like a bug to me. You might want to report it.

While you're at it ask them why the center of the

sidewalk is used as the snap point? Seems like we

should be able to choose either edge as the snap

point. I didn't see anything in the defaults to change

this behavior.    

Move your sidewalk over so that it lines up

with the inside of the curb in plan view.

Aw shucks, you beat me to it Michael.

That's just how I would have done it.

You are the man! Another +1.

Where's Bill Emery? I'd bet that Bill could pull off something close to that.

Many moons age he helped me pull off a swaybacked roof in Chief. His

approach involved curved invisible walls and Polyline Subtraction to form

curved roof edges. Seems like a similar approach might work here.

I'm not seeing any difference in the two images.

Have you tried exporting the ray trace as a .PNG

file type?

Nigel is the man! You got a hold of the right rep.

If there is a solution he will find it. That guy can

troubleshoot anything. 

I recently got 8 points for telling a bad joke.

The only deal was that 5 of them were positive

and 3 of them were negative. Can't prove it though

as the post has subsequently been pulled.

Here's an example of Polyline Subtraction I was

playing with a while back.

Good stuff as usual, Michael.

2 hours ago, Renerabbitt said:

...Located in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, plenty of experience dealing with those Hellions at the City of Berkeley Etc.

You should receive hazardous duty pay for dealing with those misguided bozos.

Imagine an American city that would bar their fire department from having the flag

displayed on the fire trucks. 

Pretty sure, but you couldn't tell because I attached

the wrong thumbnail. Doh! Also looks like it's working

for you now also.

For what it's worth, everything seems to be functioning

correctly now. I have no idea why as I haven't done

anything different on my end to change the behavior.

No Chop. There is no reason to go back and view the

topic since there have been no replies since my post.

Here's what I get as I type this response. Sam Ting

You know, I never pay much attention to these features

and things like this are probably why. So I sign in to the

forum, read about a dozen of the new responses and

then go to sign out. As my mouse pans up to the top

right corner of the screen to hit the sign out drop down

menu I catch my avatar and not my name and the mini

profile window opens. I just happen to notice that the

window says that I am currently viewing the topic

"Architectural 3d rendering services". This is all well

and good except for the fact that I haven't viewed that

topic since I made the last post in it on Wednesday

at 2:05AM. In fact I have had two separate and complete

(log in and log out) browsing sessions since I viewed that

thread. So where exactly is Chief gathering the information

displayed in that field?

A heroic effort Michael and very informative,

however if you happen to check out the pics

of the actual structure posted in a different

thread it looks to me like getting a squashed

dome roof will be the least of the OP's worries.

The whole structure is composed of (for want

of a better description) free flowing forms that

are not necessarily composed of any regular

geometric shapes. As I said in the other thread

this is not the type of structure that Chief is

suited to modeling.

I'm guessing the OP is talking about something like this.

Here is a little project I have been fooling around with in

my spare time. Modeling a structure completely out of

molding polylines as Joe outlined in post #3. Check out

that floor plan and try to guess what the building looks like.

And here is the actual structure under construction.

15 hours ago, StephenGreene said:

 

How did you do the "text" on the front of the building? It disappears when I try this.

The text is 3D text from Chief's Bonus Catalog. You can

find it in the 3D Library under Specialty/Other/Misc. There

is only one style of font but this was one of those happy

circumstances where the only font was a dead ringer for

the actual letters on the building.

BTW, that reflection in the center doors is the only known

photo of me in existence.

4 hours ago, ericepv said:

I found some great tutorials on YouTube (Blender Guru) and I messed around with it just a bit but I haven't had time to really get into it. Instead, I have been concentrating on improving my Ray Trace techniques in Chief.

Isn't this what it's really all about? This is after all a Chief

message board. If someone decides to use a different

software program to do post production work on their Chief

images that's irrelevant to me. I'm working with Chief. And

doesn't it also stand to reason that even if you do intend to

drag your Chief content into another application for said

post production work, it will still be beneficial to start with

the best possible images that Chief is capable of producing?

Here is an example of using Material Regions to cut the

grooves in the cement wall. The columns are stacked

P-Solids with a skinny P-Solid in between to represent

the grooves but all the grooves in the walls are Material

Regions set to "cut finish layers of parent object".

That's an interesting one.

Here's what I get when I open your plan and hit "H". 

I believe "thanks a tun" would be an appropriate reply here.

Here you go Marina. I originally edited your plan in X9,

but I see from the paths to the missing textures that you

were using X8 instead. So here is your plan in X8. There

are two saved camera views. You can open either camera

and start a Ray Trace. In the Ray Trace Current View box

click on the Edit button and you will go to the Ray Trace

Options dbx where you can see all the settings that were

used for the shot. You can also open the Camera dbx's

and see all the camera settings there. Hope this helps

and here is the second camera image.

4512_Fair_Oaks-X8.plan