Michael_Gia

1) watch the video posted by Gawdzira - rendering in Chief is basically photography 101 2) your materials on the building are not high enough quality. 3) Your main image is about selling the design. You don’t have to include every square inch of the facade, that’s what the plans and elevations are for. Try to follow a perspective like the attached image… (maybe not relevant to the post, but your building violates every fire code in the book)

Trust me, you still don’t, unless you watch this….

Holy cow! Thanks for the detailed construction documents! I will start construction as soon as I use them to apply for permits (kidding) I doubt this was your intention. I would delete it asap and reload an image of your problem and maybe a plan file.

Thanks for saying that. I just checked and the plan was indeed saved with the most recent changes despite the error message. I restarted and it seems to work so far. I did have to deactivate and reactivate the product key.

Hey, anyone else getting this? I keep getting this error even after I verify, make available, and whatever else to my product key.

I had this at first. I lowered the sunlight to 7000 from the 70,000 I used to have it at before X16. I also use a less bright background now as well.

Don’t use roads unless the road you want is real simple. Instead use terrain features or 3D solids or counters or slabs. Create those 3D object by first drawing out the perimeter of your road. Then make a copy of those lines so you can use them later to create 3D mouldings which will be your curbs, (Before!) you create the road. Later if plans change and you need to adjust roads and curbs you can always convert them back to lines, readjust and reconvert to curbs and roads.

I'm no expert but I was looking at this recently. For the money I think you'll have great realtime raytrace results, which is the litmus test on how well any machine does. https://www.xidax.com/ready-to-roll-gaming-pcs/14830-x-2-rtx-4060-vf-0792105640600.html

I just go to their YouTube channel. You can see the video list by date uploaded and narrow in on specific playlists.

Haze is almost always caused by using way too bright sunlight. Use PBR and set samples to 50 until you get the result you're looking for. (it's quicker) Here are my PBR settings... This is a screen shot of the result. Took a little less than a minute for the PBR to go through 50 samples. (pretty sad, but that's a Mac for ya)

If you go to the Chief Sample Plans page, most of the plans have a site/plot plan view with all the defaults etc... Just export the defaults from that or even use it as a "Save as Plan" for a template. Just pick one you like. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/samples.html

I’m sure I’d love it as well. Could you take the time and perform the same 50 samples? I’m assuming you’d be less than 1 second perhaps?

In case any Mac users want to know my benchmark... I opened the saved camera "Kitchen1" in the Nashville kitchen plan which is already set to PBR. On my 2023 MacBook Pro with 36GB memory, 12-core CPU, 18-core GPU and 16-core Neural Engine (apple marketing terms) 500 samples takes almost 11 minutes. However! this is what 50 samples looks like which only takes about 30 seconds...

why would you say he needs a second floor there?

Easiest way is to draw a landing from the stair tool and add railings to the sides that need railings. You can add stairs to your mezzanine as well and they behave as they should.

I did not know that. And to think I've been fussing with my camera all these years, since X6. never too old to learn. thanks!

If you don't mind some constructive criticism, can you tilt your camera so the house doesn't look like it's tilting back? Maybe change the field of view in the camera tab of the "edit active view" dialogue box to 45%, might help to get a closer shot with less perspective distortion, (for lack of a better term) Otherwise, nice work!

Sometimes ya can’t see the forest through the trees.

Did they fix the poché fill not showing up in layout?

Your life will be easier by creating another floor. You control the height of the walls of that floor with the rough ceiling height in the room definition dialogue box. Then you can make the facade/parapet wall balloon through ceiling above and shape it the way you want. The room height will also control the height of that roof on the far right a lot more precisely than simply raising the roof and messing with walls. You can look up videos on how to create parapet walls.

I usually extend the corner with a 2 ft invisible wall first before I attempt the very dangerous, railing at a corner manoeuvre.

Or just give us an Excel plug-in? Would solve so many problems.

I don’t believe you solved the issue. I think it has more to do with the materials not being set to default.

I posted the same thing a while back. Not sure if this is what Op is referring to. I still get these faint white lines in pdf’s. I just ignore them. They even appear when printing.

Ha, not weird but I guess you have your reasons. However, rough carpenters are even weirder and I know if I made my carpenters look up a schedule for window heights, they’d throw a 2x4 at me… lol I usually show the heights along with the dimensions right on the elevation views. The brick layer and supplier are used to working off elevations as well. I doubt they even know how to read a schedule. Something like this below…