Steve_Nyhof

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  1. 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.

     

     

  2. 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.

     

    https://www.pixplant.com/

     

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  3. 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.

  4. 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.

     

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    For now to keep going I just put in boxes with the hatch...

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  5. 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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  6. 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!

  7. 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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  8. 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.

     

  9. Changing the Resolution to something higher makes no difference.

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    Chief must have a set diameter that it is setting the image size. Right now you can change the Horizontal Tile to 2, to push it away.

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    You can use Photoshop, Camera Raw Filter... to mess with the greens and blues and other settings.