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I’ve created a pendant symbol for a kitchen design I’m working on (image attached). The shade is glass with a glass bulb and parts of the metal downrod in the center obstructed by the glass shade. It appears that reflections behind glass do NOT work at this time. I started a thread months ago and thought Chief had solved this problem – guess not. I thought maybe it had something to do with the fact that the materials were contained within the same symbol. I squashed that thought quickly by creating two spheres, the outer of which was assigned a glass material and the inner, polished nickel – same problem. I am very close to achieving photorealism with this new PBR engine; however, I’ll never get there with this ongoing issue. Anyone have any suggestions (workarounds) or is this just a limitation of the rendering engine in its current state? Of course, I'll report this again! Thanks, Kevin

Thanks Mark. I got it to work by pulling walls down. Tedious, but it worked. Kevin

Yes, like that. What settings did you use?

Here's a plan view showing the perimeter partition walls.

I think the problem I've got is that there are partition walls along the perimeter too - see attached file. These walls do exist and need to be there. Any ideas? Untitled 1.zip

Thanks Joey. I've tried that and I get mixed results. It lowers some of the walls, but I lose the main ceiling of my structure - see attached.

I'm working on a display for a retail plumbing/appliance showroom. The main structure has 12' ceilings broken up by 9' tall partition walls to create vignettes for product display (see attached). I've tried making these partition walls railings, however, I am then unable to insert doors and other cased openings properly. I've also tried defining rooms within the main structure with the ceilings removed. I get odd results using this method - second and third attachments. Would someone please tell me the proper way to go about this or at least a workaround? Thanks, Kevin

Thanks Rob. I do have the offset correct as seen in the above post. I will report this to Chief.

Hey Mick. Thanks for the reply. I do have the sink symbol with the appropriate Z position - see attached. It only seems to happen when I create a custom countertop by selecting all the base cabinets first. I will report this to Tech Support. The client requested side access to this cabinet for their electrical toothbrush. I thought it weird too as the fronts access is just as convenient in this case.

Thanks for taking a look Joe. TEMP.zip

I've noticed that the countertop holes for sinks don't fill in correctly once the cut-out is made. This is happening when I create a custom countertop mostly. Anyone got a workaround for this? When I first insert the sink, it looks fine, but later I get the gap shown in the image attached. Thanks...

There was an update a few days ago and the first one since this post started. I can confirm that it does not happen on every job. It happens with all my custom hardware symbols though.

Any update on this bug? Dermot said it would hopefully be fixed in the next update. It is not! Creating a CAD detail from view for every elevation is too much work (do lots of kitchens and baths). Please advise.

Sorry Mick. Just seeing where you asked which driver I was using. It's the 30.0.14.7141 version. What are you running into?

I noticed that Windows Update did NOT find the latest driver for my RTX 3090 card. I had to go directly to NVidia to download. Here is a link for the latest RTX 3080 driver: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/179682/en-us I mention the above if you are merely relying on Windows Update to give you the latest - it won't.

Thanks D. Scott. I've been using rendering software for about 25 years and only in the past 5 has all the training sunk in. I made great headway when I started studying photography as the same principles apply. It's all about light balance and contrast. After a while you develop an eye for it - although I hate to admit that it took me so long to grasp these concepts. In full disclosure, I did adjust the curves on the image above in Photoshop, but that was it. It would be great if Chief offered some post production within the software, but I suspect that's coming.

Thanks Mark. I'd love to hear what you think of it. I was fortunate yesterday in that I had a new project to start, so took a chance on the update. I don't think you'll be disappointed. I was just complaining about the standard renderer and opened a support ticket only a week ago. Tech support was professional as always, but I didn't really expect the update this soon (and as complete as it was).

Thanks Jason. I do my share of CD's too, but have the most fun with rendering (when there's time).

Thanks Marckus. I looked into Lumion a while back and concluded it was too expensive to add to my tool set considering I already have subscriptions for AutoCAD, FormZ, Cinema 4D, Corona Renderer, UV Layout, and Marvelous Designer. I was using these other applications exclusively before finding Chief a couple of years ago. Chief sure has streamlined my workflow; however, I still create most of my own 3D symbols outside of Chief.

Mick - let me know what you think when you take it for a spin. I am impressed that they were able to fix so many things with both render engines in one update. Very cool that I was able to complete this one job yesterday in about 5 hours and the renders look as though I spent days...

This new update from today is everything I'd hoped it would be. Reflections behind glass now work perfectly even with refraction. They were even able to restore the standard renderer to its former state. This software just keeps getting better and better.

You are correct. That's the office machine with the NVidia Quadro RTX 5000 which I rarely use. I work from home where I can actually get something done these days. I only go to the office two days a week to meet with clients.

Mark - It certainly is feature rich. Other than the standard renderer and the hardware lines disappearing in elevation view, I have not encountered any other issues - not to discount those problems. I really appreciate the new cabinet dialog box which allows me to build just about anything and the accuracy is such that I can use the output for shop drawings without a CAD detail from view. I just ordered a new computer with the RTX 3090 card, so looking forward to diving into PBR w/ RR. That said, I'd stick with the Standard Renderer if it performed like it did in X12.

Okay, will wait to hear from tech support.

Will do. Does Chief have an FTP server where I can upload large files? I'll send both the X12 and X13 if you want them.