Steve_Nyhof

Many thanks to everyone in this thread to inspire me to step into Rendering my elevations beyond CA. Twinmotion was the key, and to answer the question of grass, yes, you can spend the time to make things even more real, but Twinmotion has a grass material with some options for roughness and striping that I think works great. Along with adding some trees to offer shade is a great look. I spent a few hours watching videos, and then a view hours making up a few templates in Twinmotion. Now I can just import a 3DS format model into Twinmotion and it can be done - as shown in my example below (with no landscaping). Today I'm going to be working on some landscaping, and maybe coming up with a number of plants I like that I can save into the template and just move and copy into place. Note that I imported my Terrain by itself as a larger grade slab into Twinmotion and painted that with the grass material (not the grass in the landscaping section). The I painted selected "random" trees to some depth so you cannot see through them, and then added specific trees to where and how I like them to look. I also set it up so that I can view the house model from the front, the left or the right and the background still works as expected. A big thanks to Renerabbitt! While I did not use his grass suggestions, I learned a great deal from his videos because they were more directed and relatable to CA. One big thing is to add to your model before export is some materials, slabs, etc that you want to paint in Twinmotion. I'm going to be working on this today for my dirt and landscaping areas. Enjoy the sun location and north (and other tools) to find the perfect look and shadows. Morning and evening shots with lighting inside the home are particularly satisficing. One rule of thumb in a picture that just looks right, even though the sky seems to be less important than the other parts of a picture, we see more sky in our peripheral view. If you pay attention to most art of outdoors, landscapes, sunsets, etc. you will note that the horizon is at half or lower toward the bottom of the picture showing more sky.

You just move them up or down to make your joins, then move them back to the floor where you want them to display in your plan.

Hi Rob, I tried this in the exact steps, but it is still doing the same thing as the video shows. Steve

I did just send this to support, but wanted to know if anyone else was running into this - perhaps unwittingly... https://myplan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/ApuD7lOR

Ok, just to finish this... Resolved I called Support and they had me click on the View > Toolbars button. And that worked. However, for the record, that is the first thing I tried when I first ran into the issue, and nothing happened. But I did not check this button after I reset my toolbar in the Configuration - shown above on the first post. To conclude, after setting the Active Configuration that you want to use, make sure to go back and click on the View > Toolbars button to make sure it is active Thank you, Steve

I just ran the Repair and that didn't help. I have the list of toolbars showing, they just don't exist on my screen

I ran into this once before, where I open my CA and there are no toolbars on the top and side. I found that my saved configuration was missing so I added it back in and set it default [ Switch To ] Nothing happens. I even reset my toolbars and still nothing. Any idea how to get my toolbars back? Thank you, Steve

Thank you. A friend reached out to me to show me how. Thank you

I think the DW is a good idea. That way you save space inside the house and bring them in when you need to load and empty them.

I knew it wouldn't take much to get some good feedback here! Best forum on the net!

Ah! Yes, that would be true

Perfect! Thank you, Sir!

I have tried to build a shutter out of a Solid, save it as a symbol. But the system does not recognize it. Is there a way to build shutters? Also - just to note, the default shutter with louvers has the louvers up side down.

FYI - it was the Cabinets, Labels

That was it. X14 must have had that layer on. I did transfer all my details from X13 to X14 so it was all the same and from what I can tell it all worked perfectly other than this layer. Thank you!

Well, now that you said layer, I may find that it is as easy as turning a layer off. The symbols just started to show up when I started to use X14

Thank you, Sir! Updated.

Hello, How can I globally turn off the Show Schedule Callout? As I insert Library objects I can open the object and turn if off, but if my object is a block I need to explode the block and then select the object with the call out on. Thank you, Steve

I will remember this if I know I will be putting them together. I use reference drawings now and then for my remodel work, so I know what you are saying. Thank you

Yes! I like that a lot. Now I can get the foundation and the attic walls too. Perfect! Thank you

Very good! Thank you Now that I know I can select a number of objects (walls, roofs, openings, slabs, etc.) and still make a symbol that would be my preferred option.

I like the idea of a referenced plan. I will try that. Also, when I selected only the walls and the roof it allowed me to make a symbol so that works well also for a quick idea of putting structures together. Thank you again!

Thank you! I will check it out

I have tried this and it does not copy

A few times I have had to put several projects into one file. Like I am drawing a pool house on one drawing and the residence on another drawing. I would like to just make a block of sorts, or even a library object would work and paste it into the main drawing. What I am doing now it just copy and paste, but the defaults in the one drawing including the main floor plane messes up everything in the structure I am pasting in. Can I just group a structure with the roof and foundation? Thank you, Steve