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I figured it out. If I put frieze on the main roof the dormer sets on it works. I thought the dormer would be it's own entity

Having an issue with this floating dormer. Normally I just build my own because chief dormers always give me headaches. LIKE THIS ONE As you can see I have Frieze checked but the settings in Auto roof return are not on. Not sure if I need these on but I need to make the Frieze 5 1/2 inch tall. No options to do this and the frieze doesn't even show up after checking the box and clicking OK Not sure what the point is in giving me a frieze board option if it will not appear in my dormer. Help?

Are there any panoramic stock nighttime backdrops for raytracing? I have no look adjusting the lighting to create night so all my exterior lighting will look good

will do

Got it thanks! It worked

I saw that this was addressed back in 2015 with a statement that this was a bug that needed to be fixed and was reported. Still not fixed I assume? Cause I can't figure it out...I need one of these curtains to flip. I tried flipping the window but it keeps the curtain forced in one direction. This is pointless to offer a curtain pulled to the side in only one direction.

I understand

Yes, I knew that I just figured Chief would let me mount it realistically the way it is supposed to look. Not build and an ugly box that is never used in real life on a sloped ceiling. Those are only utilized in the real world at the ridge if needed. So this is just one more little detail that CA should address. Like exterior window brick Rowlock ledges. I shouldn't have to build my own it should just turn on and off as casing or jamb does.

I keep running into this. The ceiling fan always mounts to the ceiling incorrectly. Never flush!

HA! I never saw this. Thanks!

How do I do that?

Hello, Is there a way to change the color on all interior walls in one shot? I went into default settings/walls/interior wall/edit and tried changing both material and or wall covering... picked a color and nothing changed. I'm tired of eye dropping the color I want going through the whole house.

Thanks but my boss will not want to hire outside. He wants me to do it. This pic is not done with CA is it?

So doing this will not take the light 6inches off the ceiling surface?

I did not know you can ray-trace once then come back and turn some lights on and ray-trace the same picture again. Is this what you are saying?

Okay, thanks! I will look into this

Yes, I am familiar with PBR. Very rarely can I get a picture to look good with this option. Yes, it is fast but it is even worse of a frustration for me most of the time. Usually, my walls turn a completely different color or even just one wall in a room. PBR takes a lot of time to master a decent pic as well. If I'm going spend all that time I'd rather ray-trace and get realistic rendering. I could care less about the time it takes for passes. I want realistic pics and I get them 8 times out of 10 but sometimes it is a fight.

Though this picture has only 4 passes I realized it is time to stop and go back to the tedious time-consuming process to find the right combination to finally achieve a realistic rendering. Sometimes I adjust a few things hit ray trace and bam! 10 to 20 passes perfect picture first attempt and looks like it should be on the front cover of Architectural Digest magazine. Then there are times like this where nothing I do works. And I hate it when it looks like I get corners at walls and ceilings glowing like there is some crack in the wall or something not connected that allows outside light coming in! And everything is connected correctly! What is the deal? Also not shown in this picture is when I place recessed can lights on a sloped ceiling. In standard view, light glows just like on flat ceiling... Hit ray trace and it looks as if it's casting a shadow and is not flush with the surface. Guess what? it s is flush and shadow casting is OFF. Would love for someone to tell me "just do this every time and you will never have this problem again". Is anyone able to tell me this?

Thanks. My issue is getting that point to snap to the center radius of the arch line I have drawn. It seems to just float around with my cursor until I place it somewhere but nothing helps me place it to the exact center.

Thats what I figured but I could not get it to snap to the center of the arch

So I found instructions step by step to do this via CA. I'm obviously doing something wrong. Note: In the attached c.PNG you will see a screenshot of the example(Left) and my dialog box. I filled out the same but my calculations are different because I have a different arch. That said, I assure you all I have tried many different calculations and degrees etc and still I get nothing like the CA example. So therefore I cannot proceed to the next step in the instructions provided by CA. You will notice in the example the CAD boxes(bricks) are clearly separated. Mine no matter what degree I enter or how many in numbers bricks it always spreads out like I'm holding a deck of cards. See Untitled 1.jpg I have even tried placing the point( marked by an X) in lower position thinking that would change the outcome. Placing the point is in a previous step but It does not specify where to place point other than as a center point reference to the arc itself. Any clues to what I'm missing here.

wow, this is good. I will try this technique.

OH...I did misunderstand. My bad

A little bit of everything. One suggestion was to use hall railing to fix the railing that did not connect. I never got to that before I rendered this but I will play with that Idea. i basically used a lot of poly solids and just positioned them where I could not make anything else work