stevenyhof

Thank you

Now open the new material and change the Horizontal offset

This is very good. The perspective is viewed as from a car driving by. Lavina, when viewed from the driveway or lawn, set the camera at about 5' from grade - currently you are standing about 8'ish high. More sky, less ground. Your window reflections are looking really good! As Jim said, move the sun around to help cast more shadow. This is not always the case depending on the look you are after, but shadows can help give more life to a more simple structure. Download PixPlant and start to create your own materials. Better materials as Michael mentioned.

That is very nice to know. I did not know I could access my roof generated moldings. Thank you!

I had put in a request for this during x16 beta. Lets hope that is one of the updates.

Intrigued! Turn molding into wall?

Thank you, Robert. I am typically very accurate with my roofs. But that miss match is defiantly off. I did copy and past my roof returns, so I guess I just compounded the issue. While this is a remodel, and the As-Built trim work is not that important, what I have learned is that using roof frieze moldings does not end the boards properly at the gable end of the returns, whereas using a poly molding did work well. I think this tread will be helpful for those running into trouble with their frieze boards, making them with auto roofs, manual roofs or with moldings. This is a simple model and auto roofs may have been the best approach. However, I do like the molding as in my elevation views, it will show more accurately. Existing Molding Polyline Frieze Boards Thank you all again for working on this.

Thank you, Mark. I will remember this now as you did make that look pretty easy!

Here is something that did work... https://my-plan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/v/34QQgTsVCu9f1YjLnZ8A Just disconnect the roof returns by 1/2"

Here is what I did with moldings https://my-plan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/v/Xs3lejs6rcdkHEqAFEw2

I appreciate all your help. Auto roofs do a nice job on the frieze, but not with the roofs the way I want. I'm going to just add a molding.

Thank you, Steve. I will see what you did also and see where I made a mistake.

I have not tried with auto roofs. Haven't used that in years. I know how to do it. Thank you!

Here is a video showing what I am running into https://my-plan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/v/aOgdW7Sv2X5mhbYaDdwH

Thank you, I did find that double roof on my plan, but deleting it did not solve it. I do see you have the frieze working on the front of the house, but the back is still off and also on the garage. I will check my returns to make sure I do not have more of them - thank you!

Thank you fellows. I tried making my overhangs a little longer and shorter but that is not helping.

I'll try to DM the link

When I hit the download button it downloads all the files

When I download from google drive it has all the files, when I open this link in a browser window it only shows image files. Not sure I ever ran into this before

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PVGfunQYczZBMqTO0MWxEUoJE7PzTIWj/view?usp=sharing Try this... Thank you

Anyone want to take a crack at figuring this out. The roof frieze shows up on some areas and not on others. Both the house and garage. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PVGfunQYczZBMqTO0MWxEUoJE7PzTIWj/view?usp=drive_link 2024-10-31-2.pdf

You're Welcome!

Wow! Thank you so much!

I know I am just missing something here, but I cannot get my floor joist to work correctly... (Main floor joist only) https://drive.google.com/file/d/15oo_bUoky8M0g9pcEkPhLKXRbb2SjiC-/view?usp=sharing Any ideas? Thank you

Hi Levina, By the time you read this you probably have figured some things out. Any libraries I offer can be downloaded and dragged into your CA to load them into your library. Then just rename them to what you want. Highly recommend that as you build up your library that you back them up. Typically one by one to a folder so you can always put it back if something goes wrong. As you make changes to the libraries, back them up again. Typically you cannot back up the whole User Library, so back them up as individual folders with their respective subfolders. Your system seems fine for power to do nice renderings. Laptops are often slower than desktops. I spent a lot of time fine tuning my camera, so make sure to download my template and copy the exterior camera to your template. Then fine tune the camera if you need for your graphics card and update your template with it so you are always fine tuning your template with what works and looks the best. Now that we are in X16, I am focusing more on using the HDRi backdrops. But as you can see above, my image backgrounds work and look great too. You will get a more realistic rendering with HDRi backdrops. But it depends on what you are looking for. I do not use the 2D trees for shadows. The 3D trees just make a more realistic shadow. Follow my steps in the beginning of this thread for changing some settings, like on Glass. Also on concrete, I often change the properties so I get a little reflection. Also mess with your grass. I have grass in my template that matches the backgrounds, but I have since made my grass 2 and 4 for height because I use terrain features to cut out the grass. Position the placement of the house first as it represents the house the best. Then mess with the sun for the best looking shadows. Then place your trees to make sure they are covering the yard and onto the house a bit. I typically do not show the trees in the image, only the shadows. When CA makes some realistic looking trees I will start to put them into the foreground. Thank you, Steve