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Thanks for re-posting your video, @Renerabbitt. Looks like I should have scrolled my search results a little more before I shared my version! Here's the original Q&A post for those who want to see prior discussions:

Yes, the gap is the primary detail, sometimes there is no base at all, just the shadow gap. Sometimes you'll see tape lighting installed in the recess, which makes a nice ambient lighting effect. I think there are a variety of channel moulds that are used for installation IRL, as Joe pointed out. Here's an installation video: https://youtu.be/_Y5ap0u_1lM?si=lZGJQ_xhiIVnLD0N Sometimes the recess follows stairs, which is also a fun and interesting detail. Googling "Recessed Baseboards" seems to return a decent variety of real world examples. Thanks for playing! Note one clever behavior with this solution: wall material regions recognize door and window openings. This means that the pieces made for the baseboard and recess will dynamically update as your doors are moved. Obviously, those that surround the window and door frame are not connected to the openings and won't move with them.

I've been seeing a trim and wall finish detail where base trim is flush to the wall finish and there is a recess at the top and/or bottom of the wall. It is a clean look that I've wanted to render in Chief Architect. There isn't an explicit feature made to do this automatically, but here is one technique that works pretty well. Can you guess what it is? Here's the X15 plan if you would like to dissect.Shadow Bead.plan

Hi @KitchenDesigner I made this example by taking screen captures of the material texture or color, then pasted as picture over the first cell in each row. I think I had to adjust the draw order for the swatches to show on top. We've gotten a few requests to do this automatically in Chief, unfortunately, the feature isn't available quite yet. I've made a note to add your request for our team to review!

Thank you @SusanC it was a long project and I lot of work, but I think it is a great resource and improvement! I'm glad to have been invited to contribute and to represent Chief Architect!

carowe, you may be able to use the screen capture tool that comes with Chief to capture some tile images like your examples. We cover just this topic in this video: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10145/creating-custom-tile-materials.html

Doug, what you are seeing in the Weighted Pendant is a known issue with OGL rendering. When there are two surfaces that have transparency values overlapping in an OGL view (like standard or PBR), the engine doesn't know which surface to draw first, and sometimes draws the surface in the background on top of the foreground surface. I believe if you were to ray trace these tests, the affect would be much diminished. As mentioned before, there appears to be a surface issue in the Arts & Crafts Pendant that we've charted for updating. Regarding the Surface Mount Tube light, we received the plan, and can see some Z-fighting happening as some of you have described. I am unable to reproduce with a new plan, so I've submitted the example you've shared to our development team for review. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us!

Very strange behavior indeed! I would not think that the behavior of the surfaces on these light fixtures would be dictated by a Template unless it is a default material issue. AFAIK the templates we distribute haven't referenced these tube lighting symbols; though a custom template that contains older copies of these objects could be a culprit. We did recently rename these items to use the word "Tube" instead of "Fluorescent" in X10 catalogs. You could open the specification of the object to see if the item has the old name. You could also use the "Replace From Library" tool on the offending objects to ensure that you are leveraging the most current version of the symbol (assuming your catalogs are up to date). If you've done all of these things and are still seeing the missing surface behavior, please submit a support ticket so we can understand and track the issue in its entirety. Feel free to share this thread's link with our support team, and I will lend what I know about it to trouble-shoot so we can get to the bottom of the problem. I'll make a note of the lighting properties that need to be improved for these objects and tackle those (I'm a little surprised that these objects are being used at all, TBH, I would have suspected we were specifying recessed cans much more frequently). Thanks for your efforts working on identifying the problem!

Thanks for tagging me, Mick! I'll log the Arts & Crafts Chandelier issue and we can get it tackled in an update. I cannot reproduce missing surfaces on the Flush Mount Tube lighting. I suspect this could be related to the "Clip Surfaces Within" setting, but to be sure, please create a support ticket that includes a plan containing the offending object. Regarding the Wayfair Catalog, we did import their 3D ready objects to convert them into a Chief Architect format, I can report this object quality issue to their team and work with them on an update for objects like these. Best,

Unfortunately, because these fireplaces are parametrically generated (like windows and doors) their surfaces are hard-coded, and not something our content team can impact. Updates to the fireplace tool would have to be made progamatically and released in a new version. If you'd like to see changes to these tools, you can send us reports via the Suggestions Thread or our suggestions e-mail and we will be sure to document them for consideration!

Love to see all of these beautiful scenes! Don't forget to post some of these images in the Gallery Section as well. We've been featuring this sort of work on our social feeds using #ChiefSpotlight. You can also follows on Facebook and Instagram.

True! Good tip! One thing I like about the elevation option is that I can add a polyline label and dimensions. The disadvantage is that it is more steps and isn't dynamic if your plan changes.