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1 minute ago, solver said:

 

It's a give and take process. You could have a single ridge, but other things will need to change, so what's more important?

 

This image does not help, just shows another way.

 

Thank you! I think I will go with the first way you and shaneK did it, but I really like what you did with my entrance!

Thank you!!!

7 minutes ago, ShaneK said:

4 mouse clicks later...........solver gets a point.

Possible_design_2.zip

Can I ask, how you did that with the roof though, I'm still a newbie to this and I couldn't even figure how to do that!

I do like the roof that way & I'll probably keep it that way just didn't know if it could have one ridge line across or not.

3 minutes ago, ShaneK said:

4 mouse clicks later...........solver gets a point.

Possible_design_2.zip

Thank you that does help a tad but that's not exactly what I'm trying to achieve but what I'm trying to achieve may not be able to do.

I'm wanting a connecting double gable in the front, like the picture attached and a single ridge line through the house and garage.

Hm okay, Try this one.

Possible_design_2.plan

Here's a picture view

I've been having issues with auto build roofs. I'm new to this program so be easy on my design but I know I'm doing something wrong.

I am trying to build a Gable roof, I have gabled ends but in auto build roofs it wants to hip the roof and create almost a hand raftered roof instead of one with trusses. I want to be able to have one/two ridges where the plan keeps trying to create 3 or more depending on how I move the walls.  

Possible_design_2.plan

1 hour ago, DavidJPotter said:

The entire point of a Ray Trace is QUALITY, not speed. Things like lighting make the largest savings of time to ray trace, settings like photon mapping etc increase reality but take a bit longer. If you want speed use the Standard Render camera only, if you require quality then Ray Trace. The only other thing that can reduce the time in Ray Tracing is a fast CPU with lots of cores to it.

 

DJP

I don't really want to use the ray trace option for everything. I work for a builder and majority of our clients are happy to just see the render, but for instances like Facebook advertising or our website I would like to have a couple really nice ray traces.. But I do understand where your coming from saying they take time, I just didn't figure they would take over an hour. I think I just need to keep adjusting settings. Thank you.

Its a Tad better, I will mess around with that info. Thank you!!

So this is 15 passes with no lighting except for a window in there. This isn't the kitchen I was attempting but this is a random one I tried ray tracing and it seems even when I let it go to 30-100 passes it looks the same the entire time.

There's got to be something I'm doing wrong but still cant figure it out.

1 minute ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

Here is an example of the stainless steel materials in the bonus library.

 

The metals (left to right) are in the same order as the library (top to bottom).

 

Thank you that helped a lot! I will try tweaking their properties and switching angles!

2 minutes ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

There are metals in the main library under materials and in the bonus libraries providing you have downloaded them.

Oh yes I have all those, I thought maybe there were extra ones that could be downloaded in the 3d library on chiefarchitect.com

Thank you!

Is the metals catalog in the 3D library? Because I'm not finding it in there.

I have tried turning all lights off and reducing sunlight to 8% but it seems especially in kitchens that my stainless steel looks black and shadowed for a long time as well as the countertop stays pretty shadowed.

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Following because I'm also in the market for a new computer and it's frustrating waiting an hour for a raytrace.