Michael_Gia

Yes, use another software. This is one of the most frustrating bugs ever since the grass region was introduced. Great that we have that feature (half baked) but not great that it doesn't just turn off by hiding it's layer. Unless someone else can chime in, I don't know the fix for this. I would love to get embarrassed with a solution. Which is why I use AI to do my final renderings. No grass region to deal with. Don't waste your time. Chief is not for renderings.

I would love to be able to create my terrain using 3D solids and then, simply convert 3D solid to terrain.

Not crickets, just overwhelming. I think you are overthinking this. Let AI do the work. One simple prompt is all you need.

Did René buy Chief?

So, you are saying that you can bang out PBR's on the level as what AI is doing in a few seconds? Or am I misunderstanding? I understand that an NVIDEA graphic machine is lightening fast compared to any Mac but garbage is garbage. You can't compare to what AI can do in under 20 seconds on any machine. I would like to see Chief focus on stuff like material lists, staircases, wall snapping issues, poor cad tools, poor dimensioning tools and all that other stuff that although is boring and wont increase sales but is very important and the long and faithful customer base has been clamouring for since many many years.

Below is simply a "partition wall" Drywall on interior side only. Check "partition" in the wall type definition dbx (wall properties tab) It won't connect to the (in this case) two perpendicular walls. I often have to do this for when I have plumbing coming up an exterior wall. (can't have that here in the great white north)

You lie

Even just the hatch patterns and include the swatches of material from a screen capture and AI will make its own seamless texture and do a much better job. (I'm using Gemini with the Image feature - all free) p.s. I attended the webinar yesterday regarding AI in Chief. from what I saw, it seems AI will be incorporated in X18 to enhance video walkthroughs, I think?

petition to move @Rich_Winsor permanently to the chatroom since he can't behave.

You can just feed it an elevation with only the pattern lines, along with the sample swatches of whatever material you want to use, and it will generate the seamless textures itself. like this….

I don’t wanna be a party pooper, but this was a great thread and it’s turned into a circus unfortunately. Maybe we need a new section for serious posts only?

who do I need to pay to get you moved up the priority ladder?...

not sold on this yet. at the moment it's half baked. Not everyone working on the file needs textures. There's more than just 3D on a project. Anyway, looking forward to the evolution of PM in X18. @Renerabbitt

I hope Chief is listening...

There are two differences. One difference is when sharing or saving files on Dropbox, all you’re doing is control or command S and it’s there for everybody and yourself to use on another laptop in another country or on another planet. using PM is extra steps to the simple one-command save process. (Export-Delete-Reimport) long and unsettling due to the scary dialogue box which you mention yourself in your very great video) Second difference is, for example, I have pdf files which come from other applications such as excel. Those pdf files live on my layout or plan file as links. If I make a change in Excel and save or update a PDF, then I don’t have to do anything for Chief to have the latest saved version of that when I open the layout or plan file that contains it. The pdf gets automatically updated since it is just a link to that file that is also on dropbox. (Someone like my estimator might be providing the costing on a project) In PM it’s a dead PDF with no link to the original Excel file that is shared with other folks, so it will not update. by the way, your video should’ve been the first video we all saw when this feature was introduced in X17. I also hope that in X18 if they do introduce a cloud service, which seems to be the solution to the problems I mentioned, I would also like to see a section where printed plant sets live, and are project specific. And along with the printing sets which other softwares refer to as publishing sets, then they could be automatically sent out to whatever list of people you have them to be sent out to. I hate the fact that we have to close Chief or go somewhere else on our computer, find our construction document, remember who we email it to etc. etc. this should be handled within the project management window.

The above is the correct response. It's obvious that Chief is working towards its own cloud storage solution, so until then I think Dropbox is a bad idea if you want to use the PM workflow. Stick to the old system for now, with Dropbox or else you will have a bad day.

I have a free Gemini account. After creating the account, I told it a few things about myself. What I do and what software I use etc., nothing personal. I think this is an important part of using AI

For a different approach, I used Gemini images, and only gave it the elevation and the 3 swatches of material. It had to figure out where to apply those materials and create it's own seamless textures from the swatches. Quite impressive.... PROMPT: "Using the elevation can you make a realistic rendering but do not change the architecture and use the attached material textures. The first one is the brick pattern. The second one is the stone pattern and the third one it the siding material. Window frames and trim are commercial brown." Here is the result... Alur_Stone_Calico_01-CST.jpg.avif

That error on a Mac is usually because you are doing a "save as" while a layout file is open and already referring to that file. close any layouts first so that only that plan file is open and then do a, "save as"

Shitf+Select the stair you need to change. If you just click the staircase without SHIFT then you will be editing both sections at the same time. Also lookup drawing in the railings independently of the staircase because it is useful in certain cases.

I disagree. If I were a client and looking at your Chief standard render I would not want to live in that and I would already be starting to think that maybe I chose the wrong draftsman/designer/architect. With Gemini render, I personally would love to live in that myself. I can see myself smoking a cigar on the front porch and enjoying the scenery. What you did in, I'm guessing 20 seconds in Gemini?... Would not be possible in Chief and even with the help of TwinMotion would take hours and hours and never come close. Nice job!

1st image = Chief Standard view, all out of the box no PBR. Gemini (free, no account) Prompt = "Increase photorealism of this image. Improve lighting, global illumination, reflections, shadows, and material texture resolution. Preserve the exact architecture, materials, proportions, windows, doors, and camera perspective. Do not modify the design in any way—only enhance realism and render quality. " Chat GPT = make above rendering a winter scene but do not alter architecture or materials.

Howdie partner, I missed this, so I'm curious how it's performing? especially pbr speed

Here is about 12 seconds in Gemini. Standard render in Chief vs Gemini enhanced render. This is my prompt: "Increase photorealism of this image. Improve lighting, global illumination, reflections, shadows, and material texture resolution. Preserve the exact architecture, materials, proportions, windows, doors, and camera perspective. Do not modify the design in any way—only enhance realism and render quality."

Apple will not help you here even if you waited for the M50000000000 Pro Max Super Ultra. If you want quicker and better pbr from a Mac then just incorporate AI into your workflow to achieve that. AI in 20 seconds will improve the quality of your renderings way more than out of the box Chief pbr. Or get a pc. I would rather stay with MacOs personally.