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    I don't think this is hijacking as it seems germane to the thread, but why can't we use the copy & paste functions with cameras (and the undo/redo functions as well)? There are many times I have wished that I could duplicate a camera setup that I had used in a previous iteration of a plan. Just recently I wanted to Copy & Reflect About a camera position so I could have identical shots of two duplexes that have mirror image floor plans. Also if you use the edit handles to move a camera in plan view you can't Undo the moves. What gives?
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    Here's a quick take. No textures came thru with the plan so I just changed the color of the siding material to look more like your photo. Changed all the cans to 60W Point Lights and gave them a light yellow color. Used pretty basic setup: Outdoor/High Quality/ Dark/No Blur/No Caustics and Default Image Properties. It takes a lot of passes to get rid of the grain and there is still some bleeding but it should get you headed in the right direction. Left Image was 15 passes in 12 minutes Right Image shows 46 passes in 30+ minutes Edit: Oh yeah, I changed out the background image too. The fireworks weren't doing it for me.
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    For me it's right there at the top of the page in the "Featured" section. https://3dlibrary.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?r=site/detail/998
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    Here is a little vignette I composed to use in an upcoming project. It turned out so well I thought I would share it with you. For some reason I like to title my images. I call this one “The Empty Chair”.
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    I don't know about her drawing skills, but she definitely has the flexible part down. Sorry, it was one of those things triggered by the title of the thread.
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    Wow! That was interesting. If you have a 3D Connexion mouse try navigating the forum with it. Tilting forward & back scrolls up and down and Spinning left and right widens or shrinks the screen.
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    Look them up on Amazon. They have them in stock and a lot cheaper than the Best Buy prices you cited. Wired - $ 93 Wireless - $ 121 Free Shipping included.
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    Actually there is one setting you can control in X8. Check the "Render" settings in Preferences. I find the "Rotate about Camera Focal Point" to be more like the behavior of Chief's Mouse-Orbit Camera tool.
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    Thanks for confirming the behavior Barton. I can't believe more people aren't up in arms about this. Trying to accurately drag the slider in 1% increments with the mouse or manually entering every change by keyboard just aren't viable options if you are trying to compare how small adjustments in the sliders are reflected in the current Ray Trace image. Anyhow, I submitted it as a bug in my first ever Chief Support Case. We shall see what the powers that be have to say. With all the nice new features they have introduced with this release it would be a shame if we have to take a step backwards in productivity with this change.
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    Just ran my 1st Ray Trace in X8 and I am experiencing some unexpected behavior. Wondering if anybody else is experiencing this? When making adjustments in the "Image Properties" dbx all the slider bars are now moving in 10% increments. This happens either when using the left & right arrows on the keyboard or when clicking the mouse to the left or right of the slider button. In X7 this these techniques would result in 1% increment changes. I hope this is a bug as this new behavior makes it very hard to work in increments smaller than 10%. You can get increments smaller than 10% by dragging the slider button with the mouse but this method is imprecise and takes an inordinate amount of effort. Try setting the General Properties sliders to the amounts pictured in the thumbnail and see if you get similar results.
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    What the hey! A flying buttress tool would be neat too... but how often would we really use it? http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/visit/tour/
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    I've had X8 Beta installed for about 2 minutes now and I can tell you that the improved function of the Mouse-Orbit Camera ( ) isfantastic. You can now literally walk your way thru the plan (inside and out) and easily get views that would have taken you dozens of camera placement adjustments in the past. Now I find X7 impossible to work with. This feature alone is worth the upgrade for me.
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    Have y’all ever actually checked out the accuracy of the views that Chief’s Perspective Overview Cameras generate? Maybe it’s my suspicious (take nothing for granted) nature but I was compelled to drag a screen shot into PSP and lay out the perspective guide lines on the image. I’m happy to report that Chief’s view appears to be spot on, displaying none of the common sources of perspective error. But you already knew that, didn’t you?
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    As well you should be! Sheesh, you could have sugar coated it a little bit for me. There was actually a Richard Head attending my high school. And Johnny Cash thought a boy named Sue was bad. Now that we are completely off topic, and on a different subject altogether, I have always wondered how you Aussie's regard your neighbors to the South in Tasmania? Are they your good mates, or are they regarded more as the red headed step children?
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    Many nice things going on in this shot Jon and I know you are not necessarily looking for a critique.... but to my eye, that little swatch of bright green in the carpet in the foreground is a distraction. It seems out of place with all of the nice warm tones going on.
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    I guess my knowledge of the vernacular of Oz is woefully limited. I can speculate but since it bears my namesake I'd love to know the derivation and meaning of "having the Richard".
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    Here I've had a play with giving several of Chief's standard library items a "reflective metallic look". If this is on the right path experiment with using the Adjust Material Definition (rainbow tool) to set the Material Class to Shiny Metal and in the Define Material dbx start with; Specular - 50%, Roughness - 0% and Reflection - 85%. These settings should get you in the ballpark.
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    Coincidentally that's about what I have in to Microsoft Solitaire. Hey! Maybe that would explain my lack of productivity.
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    I don't know if it's a Mac thing or just a case of user error, but this is how I get the Jing videos to run in full screen mode on my PC.
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    They tried changing the gas pumps to liters (or was that litres?) here a while back. I think it lasted about six months. It's not that we can't change to metric but rather we don't want to change. Besides Imperial has a nice ring to it. Heck, you metric guys are so screwed up you probably only get 10 eggs in a dozen.
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    Everything is relative. Just by way of perspective, this is what renewing my SolidWorks seat will run me. Somehow 5 bills doesn't seem that bad to me. Hope you're right D Scott.
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    Funny (odd, not funny ha ha) that after all these years of Microsoft selling us their operating system and including the games for free, now they want to give us the operating system for free and charge us for the games. Well I'll be dad gummed if I'm going to log on as a guest on my own computer just to play some watered down game version fraught with advertising. Fortunately in this day and age there seems to be a hack for everything and this little program will restore your classic Windows 7 games on your Windows 8 or 10 rig. http://winaero.com/blog/get-windows-7-games-for-windows-10/ Just scroll down and follow the 3 steps outlined. I downloaded and unzipped the files on a flash drive and ran the setup program from there without any problems. An interesting side note: Apparently Windows 10 doesn't completely remove the games when it upgrades a Windows 7 system because when I opened the newly accessed games in Windows 10 my results history for the games was still there intact.
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    I like the Chief version better. That floor is awesome.
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    https://3dlibrary.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?r=site/detail/922
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    Ray, check out this link. You can create an installation DVD and install Win 10 from that when you are ready. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10