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Thanks, Griffin.  Looks interesting... I was hoping there was within CA a way to resize pics when exporting.

I would like to post several picture files on a real estate website but find that when I upload them they do not fit the destination format.  How do I resize?

This is how it appears on the website:

Graham, thanks for your help.  I really appreciate it.  Your raytrace with the added lighting looks fantastic.  How long did it take to generate, 30 mins or more?

4 hours ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

Try setting the Ambient Occlusion Min=0, Max=3 and uncheck "Use Camera View Settings". Here's what I get with these settings. You can use the Image Properties settings to adjust contrast, intensity, etc.

 

Graham

Here is my raytrace with your settings.  Much better.  I will experiment with the image properties...

Thanks!

I am posting the pictures as they appear in my program.  Can you post a quick raytrace and final render with shadows created with your program?

6 hours ago, jcaffee said:

Turn off Environment Light and set the Sun Light to zero.

This raytrace with sun off

 This final view with shadows.  (light bleed at top)?

1 hour ago, jcaffee said:

Turn off Environment Light and set the Sun Light to zero.

6 hours ago, Rich_Winsor said:

I'm not seeing any bleeding issues. I opened your

plan but didn't see any saved interior camera views

so I just took a Full Camera view of the cabinets and

ran a High Quality Indoor Ray Trace. Can you post

the troublesome camera view or perhaps the problem

image and the settings you are using?

Already have a roof on it.  I posted the plan if anyone wants to take a look?

Thanks

Already have a roof on it.  I posted the plan if anyone wants to take a look?

Thanks

Why am I getting light bleed above the wall cabinets when I raytrace?

Stackpole rd. ranch.plan 28' X 44'.planJEFF.plan

Thanks, Wendy.  I never had to deal with this in my old program "9.5" ?

The wall on the left side of the stairs does not "stop" at the stairs when I move it?

Cape (Stackpole rd.chief ).plan

It is going to take some time to adjust to X-6 after using 9.5 for the last 12 years.  I have the x-7 upgrade in my locker but am hesitant to load it until all the "bugs" are worked out of it...

Thank you Joe for your contributions to the forum!

I placed a gas cook top in my cabinet from the library browser in plan view and then moved it and cannot select it to place back in the cabinet??

I have attached entire plan.

96 Runaround renovation Kitchen chieftalk.plan

I have CA 9.5 which I can run on a "virtual machine" using windows XP. I have the hardware dongle. The virtual machine runs within my new computer, (windows 7)

???

I have been using X6 for about a month successfully.  Just started to get this message when trying to access help??

Thanks guys!   We have had over 46" of snow over the past 9 days here in southern Maine, so I have had alot of drawing time.

I have played around with material definitions and cannot get the stainless to show in render or raytrace??

It looks like the program is having problems auto saving a copy of the file when you open it. 

 

It looks like a very strange file name.  Maybe your file name is too long?

 

Maybe your hard disk is almost full?

You were right.  I shortened the file name and the error message has disappeared. 

Thanks, Arthur   

Thanks for the reply, Lew.  Must be serious huh, Doc?  When a seasoned chief user refers me to CA tech makes me a little nervous...

Check your file sizes.  If they are big....like 500mg+, you have the wrong codec set.  For some reason the program comes by default set to IYUV.   This needs to be changed to "XVID" under Preferences>Render>Codec options.   You may have to download and install the XVID codec.   Just google and install.

 

Once you use that I can make a 2min walk-through that is only about 60mb.

 

They should make this more clear for people and I found it by accident somehow.   I used to get 1gb vids and have to convert with Microsoft movie maker to get them to play.

This worked! Thank you!

I tried the convert video download but the resulting conversion was not of the same viewing quality.  Thanks to all...

I keep getting this error message shown below?? I can open the file but the message keeps popping up when I open it.

I created a walkthrough which I saved to my computer and played several times using the windows player.  I have lengthened and edited the walkthrough and now windows will not play it??

Chieftalk walkthru.plan