Rich_Winsor

My philosophy has always been that the inside

of my computer is no place for liquids. I had the

unfortunate situation of spilling lemonade onto

my workstation once and it was not a pretty sight,

but I digress. I have always used spacious cases

and very robust power supplies and have never

had an over heating issue. It's the same reason

that I run Avid mechanical disk brakes on my road

bike. Who want's to mess around with a hydraulic

system and the potential for seal failures and fluid

leaks? 

What the heck, you guys are practically next door neighbors.

Why don't you just hook up at the local pub? 

Interesting design...

Didn't David use one of those to bring down Goliath? 

23 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

You can't spend that money Rich.  It's drug money.  Only the one on top is a C note, so only $199 not $10,000.  Sorry try this one.

Hey Chop, hope you didn't invest too much time in engraving

the plates to print those up.   You might want to take another

look at those before you try to pass any. Nonetheless that is a

unique way to devalue the C-note. 

So I added a couple of stacks of C-notes to my plan and by

the time I took a camera view they had turned into singles.  

5 hours ago, Renerabbitt said:

POST 87

To what would you attribute the glowing areas behind

the headboard and pillow? It seems that from the sun

direction those areas would be in shadow like the

bookshelf... no? 

13 hours ago, Renerabbitt said:

POST 86

Very impressive and it's not everyday that

one sees the horseshoe crab as wall art. 

6 hours ago, Mark3D said:

....that are not to high surfaces and suitable for chief...

Aye matey, there's the rub. Xfrog.com has thousands

but they tend to have high surface counts. They also 

have some free samples so you might want to give

some a try and see how they perform for you. Here

is a quick PBRT comparison between a Chief 3D tree

and a Xfrog tree. These were both Ash trees and seem

to be striking eerily similar poses. 

10 hours ago, Joe_Carrick said:

All the png's in the Chief X14 Program "resources/buttons" folder.

Yikes! That's only 1,823 files. And I was thinking

of volunteering to convert a few for you. I think

I'll defer to the Rabbitt on this one.  

I didn't look at your plan, but based on your

image it looks like you have color toggled off.

9 hours ago, solver said:

And maybe you want riprap, not riffraff.

I don't know Eric... If the OP is looking for a riff-raff

kind of look he just might be in the right place.  

There are river rocks and gravel in the Core Library if that will work for you.

5 hours ago, GeneDavis said:

How do you tag someone?

@ + user name

@GeneDavis

1 hour ago, GeneDavis said:

The rusty corrugated steel siding?

Chief has a selection of rusty corrugated metal siding 

in the Materials section of the Core Catalogs.

Here you go @rikdekker. Upon further consideration

I have come up with a simple workaround that will let

you tint your mirror glass any color and have it render

in all views including Standard View. All you have to do 

is create a thin 3D Solid the dimensions of the mirror

glass and place it in front of the mirror. Now you can

assign a colored glass material to the solid and tint the

mirror any color you like. In the images below the top

and bottom mirrors in the center are default mirrors 

from the library. The 4 mirrors flanking the stock ones

on either side are obviously tinted to different colors.

They will display in all camera types. Maybe this will

work for you until such time as your suggestion is

acted upon. 

10 hours ago, DBCooper said:

What's a pile?  

Maybe the OP had something else in mind. 

On 9/27/2022 at 10:24 AM, rikdekker said:

Any idea how to make a black mirror? or at least show reflections on black glass tiles?

You can't always get what you want (where did I hear that?).

But in this case maybe you can get what you need.

If you use the Rainbow Tool to change the mirror "Material

Color" to Black and the "Material Class" to "General Material"

you can achieve a "Black Mirror" in Ray Trace (CPU), PBR

(GPU) and Vector views.

11 hours ago, Jeffcrigler said:

How do I build a new floor under this room?

Please do.... that's quite a daunting image. I don't know

if I could "perform" under those circumstances.  

Forget about the metal siding?   What is

that material that they book matched on the

corner of the building? 

Not to hi-jack my own thread or in any way disparage

Joe, but I did not mark this thread as "Solved". In fact

I hadn't even read the replies yet when it was marked

as Solved. If I didn't then who else has the power to

do so? Just trying to figure what happened and when?

Original Post: 23 hours ago

Joe's response: 20 hours ago

I log in tonight - 22 hours since my last visit

Go to read the new replies and find the thread marked

as solved even though I haven't read the replies yet???

I think this is the point where I invoke the old standby...WTF?

It's bad enough that we have people marking their own posts

as the Solution. Now apparently anybody can mark my posts

as Solved too. 

BTW, when I calm down I'll have a play with it Joe. 

Since there seems to be a lot of discussion about

cabinets here lately I thought I would throw this one

out there also. This little PITA is called a 3 Drawer 

Corner Cabinet.

After wasting a couple of hours (including 

watching a Chief video) trying to wring this

out of the Base Cabinet Spec DBX I threw

in the towel and settled for a 5 minute hack

since all I was after was the appearance and

not the functionality. I just stuck a 3D Solid in

the corner and slapped some drawer fronts

from the library onto it.

Just for my edification I'd like to know if this

configuration is doable as a cabinet? 

6 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

....so it can be adjusted to match the current project Siding/trim details

Dude, what is up with the "current project siding" in your image?  

Looks like the Rainbow Tool gone awry. 

I prefer the Material Region approach to board & batten.

You can use Chief's B&B as a starting point. Drag a MR

over the first batten on one end of the wall. Use the DBX

to adjust the MR to your liking. Then use the Multiple Copy

tool to drag the MR across the wall. There you have it, real

board & batten, easy peasy and much more believable in

renderings.

16 hours ago, DRAWZILLA said:

Tool heck with the texture, where can I get that house for 229,000.

There's a reason for everything. 

@M-Reed