JonathanK

I'd be curious to see a couple of things: What's the room definition of the living room. (How are the ceilings set, how are the floors set, etc..) What's the room definition of the "fireplace". (How are the ceilings set, how are the floors set, etc..) How is the fireplace built. (Is it a whole block, is it built as a "room", is it just firred walls and an opening, etc..) You can attach the plan and we can dissect it a little and help you out with some of these things.

One thing to keep in mind is that "less expensive" does not equal better. Especially in the computer world. You have a motherboard or RAM go out and it's a big deal. There's a reason name brand costs what it does. I don't know much about the CyberPower or Stormcraft brands...but I'm guessing if you're buying from Amazon I'd be asking some questions. But they might be sweet...never know.

Personally, I'd go with the bottom one in your screenshot. It's the CPU that's doing it for me. That 14900F that's on the top one feels a little underpowered. But in reality...all those are light years better than what you have right now. I never really was a "big capacity HDD" guy. I think you could get by with a 1TB higher end HDD and be just fine. Then archive files off down the road if need be. Build good habits that way. Or utilize cloud storage...

It will need some tweaking, but I just drew a wall on the attic floor, opened it up, went to roof tab and selected "Extend Roof Downwards" and "Roof Cuts Wall at Bottom". See attached.

Are you looking for the shape "Chevron" under the material builder?

Without looking at the plans, it almost looks like it's attic walls or something inherited from a different floor that is cutting through and breaking or messing with your railings and wall intersections. The room divider works well, and it shouldn't be giving you fits like this.

Not any more or less complicated than pulling an elevation view, and drawing a material region, etc... The nice thing with this, is that you have the wall type forever. No need to recreate it. And it can be as detailed as the architect wishes. Personally, I keep material wall regions to things like tile backsplashes, or odd/ends type regions.

Why use a material region, and not use a wall type that has tile on one side? You can set it as a pony wall with a standard interior wall on the top and adjust the height as needed in the wall dialog box.

Hey @winterdd, would you be down with posting the plan here. Would be nice to poke around at the material and lighting and see if we can help you out a bit.

Overall, I prefer the lighting a mood of the AI generated image. It feels more realistic. The only obvious differences I can spot are things like the coffee table legs, and there is no "lighting" coming from the flames of the fireplace.

@robdyck those look great! I like the ones a little further down in your gallery. Looks like you're starting to get CA Render dialed in. Yeah...they're missing that "ultra realistic" touch that you get with an outside rendering software...but it's really impressive for Chief. Especially considering what Chief used to be

Not going to lie...I like your CA rendering better. I'd be curious how it would turn out with higher quality objects, rather than typical low quality library objects.

Thank you all for replying. It's funny, though, that it's been this way forever. Rather than not use it, why not bring it up again and again until it gets fixed? I know that CA did a lot of revamping of their cabinets and stuff...this could have easily been, or could still easily, be fixed. I think I'm going to put it in the suggestion forum.

I apologize...it's been a minute since I've been on here and can't believe that my signature wasn't up-to-snuff. See attached for a plan... I understand that this is driven by the cabinet...but the cabinet has the "sides" option unchecked which should mean that there are no sidesplashes. But they always show with custom countertops...always have. Countertop Plan.plan

I'm sure there's a setting I'm missing somewhere...but how on earth do you remove the sidesplash on a custom countertop?! I clicked on the edges of the countertop polyline, and selected no molding on selected edges...but alas...it's still there. Is this a "change the cabinet to have no backsplash and then use the custom backsplash tool to create one only where you want it" sort of issue? See attached for a picture...

Ah yes, this is how I used to do it in the old days. But with the new macros and saving time, etc... this was an issue that came up. It was just a thought...if there's no easy way to do it, I'll just move on and work-around.

I feel like I should know the answer to this question, but I haven't used Chief in a little over a year. Now I'm starting to dabble again part time. Anyways...can I change the size of an individual door label? I put the door on it's own layer, changed the label type in the layer settings to be a bigger size, but it's still a door...and therefore uses the Door, Labels layer. Sorry for the lack of pictures...I'm not on the computer that has Chief on it.