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I've benefited greatly already from Michael's talent and services. I just signed up and am looking forward to what he has to offer.
I know users are using a number of macros to automate their processes, and Michael has already automated things for me that I could think of, but I know there is more that can be done to help my work flow.
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On 8/8/2024 at 5:08 PM, blueriver said:
Stevenyhof, i came across this thread looking for brick downloads - thank you for posting this - beautiful renderings and super helpful!! i am looking for more realistic light colored brick downloads (i do a terrible job importing!) do you by chance have any?
I use the brick in Chief mainly for simple jobs, but for remodeling, I take a picture of the clients brick wall and put it into Pix Plant 5 and create my own materials. That is the best way to show off your model to a client - who has brick.
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Very nice, Rene! What caught my eye are the two piles of mulch in the landscaping. Is that something you are selling? I'm not doing much with rendering at the moment, but I am always looking at 3D objects. For that matter, it is hard to drive down the road without looing at the trees and wonder if they are 3D objects, or what in them look fake - LOL
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1 hour ago, SNestor said:
That front wall is a pony wall...and you placed a door into the wall that is cutting the lower portion of the wall. I don't think Chief will show the remaining area of the wall below the door. Just a guess...but, the actual "foundation" wall is below the door. And...since that wall is exposed to freeze...it will have to have a deep footing.
Maybe you should have placed the lower level plan on "level 1"...and had a true foundation plan on "level 0"?
Thank you, Steve! I have drawn houses with a lower basement before. My template is just not set up for that. Maybe it is time to setup another template for that situation.
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Thank you, Steve.
The walls I'm having a problem with are the front larger doors (see highlight). I have a foundation plan that is set to lower walls only...I do not seem it have problems with the doors you show. Maybe something moved on the plan when you opened it.
For now to keep going I just put in boxes with the hatch...
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I think it was just a fluke. A computer gremlin.
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I tried that and nothing changed. Thank you
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We sure did!
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I followed your lead and just made a new wall, starting with the foundation wall first, and then added the 8" brick wall, then turned it into a railing wall. That might be the fix. The first time I made the wall, I made an 8" brick wall, turned it into a railing wall, then added the foundation wall as a pony. I did download your drawing and it all looks right.
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2 minutes ago, tundra_dweller said:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KSdT7TbF8WNuloPLfuzspNhmGRjxlV9h/view?usp=sharing
I think it has to do with however that original wall was created or copied being the problem. I created a new wall from scratch, 1 layer of brick 8" thick and it works fine. Something about that original wall was causing a 12" offset down, you can see the 4" concrete core doing the same thing in those last pics I posted. The wall in the edited plan attached doesn't do that.
I will download and check it out. I did a lot of messing with that wall, so making it over sounds like it will solve it.
Thank you again!
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17 minutes ago, tundra_dweller said:
Not sure about that. As soon as you change the upper pony wall type to any other wall type then the material stops extending down 12" into the foundation wall.
Maybe you have another setting I am missing. Once again, the exterior is fine and looking and working as expected, but the middle and interior want to go down.
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My exteriors show proper which is the most important my exteriors, but if you find a fix for the interior wall that would be appreciated!
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Thank you, Sir! That makes perfect sense to me. Great job
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Can anyone look into this please? I cannot get my brick to sit on top of my foundation wall. It wants to go into my foundation wall.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OeaKBstovBhJQE--_gbhkzjOVX0CXOBC/view?usp=sharing
Thank you,Steve
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10 minutes ago, decorators3 said:
Thank you for all the information you have provided. I have printed all your details and downloaded your library images,etc.
Still trying to gauge sizing of images as opposed to backdrops. Most of my renders are exterior and I really didn't want to go to an outside software when I know I can learn from your info. I was doing ok til I upgraded to X16 then all my settings had to change so it is a learning curve.
thanks again!
The one thing I am learning with X16 is to use the HDRI backdrops. I have included some I liked. This makes the house look more real. I still use the X15 background images for some work as you can see above, but there are times on my computer that some kind of light washes them out, makes vertical light strips on it
But I like to use the HDRI backdrop with the background images because I can get nice window reflections with it. Big thing is to find a process and reproduce it. With each rendering there is always some tweaking.
I also use a few of Chiefs 3d trees to cast shadows vs the 2d trees I include. 2D trees just do not give a good result.
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Beautiful house, Rene!!
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You're welcome!
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I have not figured out why. I plan to just use the spline tool for drawing and converting it into a terrain spline.
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Thank you! I love the rotator tool. It does not have an end like within the DBX - thank you for sharing
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Changing the paper size does not change the image size
Does a quest 3 work with CA?
in General Q & A
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I'll keep using Chief, love so much of what it can do. But like many things once something seems to work they move on to the next seldom to come back. With hardware there are always updates and you need to test so many different hardware and software combinations that I believe that VR is the last thing I would I would put my time into.