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Just spent an hour looking over past Q's and A's on this, not really finding a solution. I am trying to continue a cathedral over a high ceiling entry to the back wall, but instead the ceiling plane follows the roof plan line. (Basically I want to continue the room plane back) I have played with the many of the options I mentioned below, including putting in a ceiling plane but get nothing. With ceiling above room off, why doesn't a ceiling planes appear? Elsewhere in this home where I have cathedral (via ceiling planes) I have no problems... I have ceiling over room unchecked I have ceiling default finish unchecked I have checked and unchecked roof over this room I have unchecked and checked Use Room Ceiling Finish Checked and unchecked knee walls, because it kind is like a dormer BTW, I cannot post plan, per contract obligations. Builder specifically mentions this.

Does the applicant need to be local? BTW Go Blue.. :-)

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Have you tried taking Ambient Nighttime to zero? That's what I run mine at. (see attached)

I think something else is going on here TKA. I am placing light fixtures in this new model, now that the room layouts are good. I only had four of the can lights in, no other electrical. I did turn off all but one, and still wont show the "glow". And my vid card should be more than adequate. My other models, where as I have tons of lights, I do turn off all rooms I am not RT, and some rooms like a family/game room I just did had 12 cans, 3 pendants.. when this would happen, I would turn one light off, then back on and they all would glow.. all 15 lights. But really, its all good, because it turns out on RT, just missed the convenience. Thanks for replying and getting my wheels turning.

Don't know about HDS but in Chief Premier, the wall cabinet specification, there should be a molding tab. Just delete it. The CA73 is the shape of the molding, many to choose from. You can set your molding individually (per cabinet) or by your standard default (the white wrench on tool bar)

Interesting... I did not know this. Is there a way to change that standard setting? I mean, it seams most kitchens have more than that now with the cans, under-cabinets and pendants. Not a big deal like I originally said.. just mentally like seeing the glow.

I've noticed this a lot lately, on my last half dozen plans or so, and been meaning to ask... But it seams like when I have a light "on" (with the "glow" showing) and I either adjust material, or turn another light on or off.. the glow disappears on the remaining "on" lights. By no means a show stopper and RT still works showing the lights on.. but I like the idea of seeing which lights are on in advance. The attached shows the same light and they both are on in the the 3D view. Setting?? Bug?? Thanks in advance.

I was just having the latter issue myself.. and checking "through wall at end" did the job. Would never had thought of that either.. THANKS

Wow again. So these are all done outside of CA ray trace.. Interesting. It looks like I will be looking into Photoshop CC and saving your tutorial above and your others. Lately, the builder I am working with wants realistic photos, for pre-sale reasons. Ray Trace has done pretty well up to this point, but now we are getting into the high end homes, I am thinking high end renders are needed. Thank you Rene...

I love my 3D connextion space mouse.. I fly. The only thing I can think of is default Options, Camera, 3D views, un-click "Camera bumps Off Walls". See if that works.

By what I have seen on this and previous post, you are an expert on these rendered, RT, Photoshopped views. I've attached three RT views with a touch of bump mapping. The first one has an ugly light bulb dead center. How do you correct this? The next two have the traditional can lights, but mine looks like just white circles, where the one you showed above has texture and depth. Again, how do I achieve a more realistic look?

I have no idea what you just said, but the end result is amazing. Heck if I can get my can lights to look real would be a major step.. :-) The rug too.. WOW.

Could be so many things.. Is there a roof over head (for some reason keeps light from bleeding through)? Is there a cabinet light, if so might play with the Point or spot settings. It really is a trial and error. Side Note.. going to be a beautiful render once you get the light glow issue fixed.. love the back ground view out of the window too.

Part II, When in the layout tab, you need to go to defaults (the little white wrench looking tool on tool bar) to change text styles, sizes and colors. Not sure on the symbol thing though.

Hi there.. Click on the layout, and open the object. You will get a layout box specification pop up, last item is called label. Where you see label options, click "specify label".. the default is automatic. That's where you change the layout box name. Make sure that Layout Box Labels is turned on in your layer properties. Hope this helps.

You can try and change some of your "locate object" dimension defaults (DEFAULTS, LOCATE OBJECT) and when that doesn't work, drawing the line is the last thing to try. I know it doesn't make sense, because IMO, anything that has an edge should be able to be dimensioned. Chief does not dimension like AutoCAD or Mechanical. You can also try rearranging your layers in the build wall specification too, for instance move your line 3 to main layer.... see if that helps.

here are the links https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1912/ray-trace-rendering-material-settings-and-properties.html?playlist=103 https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1913/ray-trace-rendering-materials-of-note-in-the-plan.html?playlist=103 Your right kbird that this is a user forum.. habit. Perry, I couldn't get it to work in Explorer.. but does in Chrome. Good idea checking out diff. browser. I see we both have Alienware.. what a difference..

Hi CA Can you look into this please. Now that I have a top of the line vid card (at least when I bought it a moth ago it was), I would like to learn more on bump maps. Reading many post, but thinking these vids would be a great tool. When I tap play, the audio is fine but no video is showing. other training videos do work, but these two do not. Thanks,

I use my 3Dconnexion mouse to zoom in and out in the 2D world as well, makes the screen endless. Great for dimensioning too!

Hey all.. Hadn't been on the forum since my post. I guess I've been called a dumb a$$ kinda..? I understand user error, I know it when I see it, I have made my share of them, as we all have. This was not one of those moments. As I mentioned originally, I created a construction package with one layout sheet being electrical. My attachment showed completed circuits with all the the 3-ways attached, Model saved, printed doc shows the correct labels. When I open the model again, ALL the 3-ways are detached. User error would have been one or two, obviously. BUT the whole plan, every 3-way disconnected??? I did have to grab each grip and reconnect to get the correct label. I could not duplicate either, so..?? My original post was more of a curiosity if anyone else had seen this. I have fixed and moved on.. Add the electrical does need an overall, as all the ideas and previous post have mentioned. It wold also be nice to be able to turn lights on and off in 3D via the switch too, instead of picking each light for a RT. Thanks all.. even for the constructive criticism. :-) learning from the best.

This might need to be sent to CA for a bug... As you can see, the "B4" picture, my switches have correctly changes to a 3-way where needed. This view is from the construction docs I've created. Now when I open this same plan again to make some customer mods (see the "lost" pict.), all the 3-ways are no longer that way. Yes, the box is still checked to automatically change switch types when wiring. I basically have to touch all the connections again to get it back to the 3-way. And this is with the complete plan, major time killer. Any ideas on why this is happening?

You will also need to reload all of your catalogs, at least I had to. That's what takes the most time. Other wise, do what David mentions above.. and you should have no problem.

Key word mentioned above.. if your business, get used to upgrading. I had very similar issues until I was pointed out that my system was not up to par, not even close. And you need it for X9. I know am running high end and the difference is incredible. I have stopped cussing :-) while waiting for any commands to work.

I will try bump maps with the new vram.. Not going to dare until then.