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Thank you, these are lot of useful suggestion. I am going to work on these and share my results soon. Thank you @Gawdzira I have 4 main lights. Projects I work always require indirect lights. For creating indirect light effect, I came up with this work-around. I am using almost 15 lights near cabinets. I have changed angle of these lights to create indirect light effect. I have a feeling that this is not best solution though. Do you have suggestion on how to create this indirect light effect ? 15 passes took about 10 minutes of time. I am going to try to turn off these extra lights & give a try. This project does not have any sketchup, but all materials applied are taken from outside for manufacturers website. Very likely they are not fine-tuned for rendering. ---- @HumbleChief PBR is available in CA X10 Interior. I have also started looking in to this option. Video help created by you was an eye-opener, I will have to spend next 2-3 days to work on your suggestions given in video. Thank you so much. This was of GREAT help. I am also goign through PBR.plan provided by you. ---- @rlackore Thank you so much for all suggestions. I will apply them & share my result soon. Thank you "What I dont like about my image ?" 1) Almost all surfaces have white spots. Ceiling vertical walls all over there are white tiny spots, you can see them if you zoom the image. Those spots are missing in the image rendered by you. Can you tell me what could be the reason ? 2) any suggestion how to handle indirect light effect ? ---- @DavidJPotter Thank you David for PDF. I will try Interior settings provided and share result soon.

Last time I was at this forum, it felt like motivating & supporting place. What happened to that ??? Anyways... I am using x10 Interior (already mentioned in original question) I & my partners - we have been using CA since X7 & always found ray tracing challenging. We have spent time in understanding some of the older/previous discussions. With this particular project ( Kitchen ), I am struggling since last couple of days. I wanted to run through people here & find out if I am missing something important. I would never ever think of "doing all the work at no cost" .. OHH BOY.. The only reason I shared all details ( setting screenshots, plan, machine config & my render result) was to get best possible suggestion / tips. I am requesting once again to community if someone can check this room/project & let me know if I am missing something crucial in settings , anything that can improve results. Please help Thank you.

Hello Everyone I need Help/Suggestions/Pointers to make this Ray Trace (Render) better. Attached are following files : 1) Project calibz with all materials zip 2) Settings zip (screenshots of all settings used): 3) ray-traced output of a sample Kitchen. I have done 15 Passes in X10 Interior version. My Machine config: Amd Ryzen 5 1600 Cpu Asus B 350 F Strix Gamning MB Corsair 8gb ddr4 2666 Lpx Ram Zotac GTX 1050 Ti 4gb Card Kingston A 400 120gb SSD 1 TB WD Sata HDD Blue Corsair VS 650w Smps Thank you for help Backup File Material With Calibz.zip Raytrace-settings.zip

CA-Interior user. I am trying something new. Before I render image, I want to share 360 panorama & Vector view seems like good option. How do I put a watermark on these images ? I want to add a small brand logo & company name text. I logo, not possible, at-least text. I tried several things, I created a painting, added to a wall. It disappears when you create Vector view ( actually with Vector view, not just 360, even for standard view, any painting like object disappears). Here the purpose is not to secure copy or brand or image, all I need is to have my company name. If these images go public, I get some promotion. Any work around ? Also I chose vector view for 360 panorama, do you have better suggestions ?

Hello, I am CA-interior user. I have downloaded Beds catalogue ( 3D Library>Furniture>Bed no 1 ). While using one of the bed, I realised, I am unable to explode / edit any block. How do I explode/edit these blocks ? I want to customise (drop some part of design), how do I do that ? The usual steps which I use for exploding/editing other blocks, those options are not available here. From what I understand these are not Architectural blocks. Is there any way to convert this in to block, so that we can customise it. Thanks for help

Hello @rikdekker Thank you for sharing article. We have wordpress website, I tried playing with plugins it didnt work or may be I need to put some more efforts. Facebook seems to be easiest & most reliable option. Unfortunately, not all of my clients would want their image to be publicly shared. If I post it on soem page( create post) it becomes public for everyone to see. Thanks again!

@lbuttery I have never used gotomeeting, I will give a try. Presently, we do send pdf files over email, discuss over phone. Thanks @MArkMc Thank you Mark, I have used basecamp in past but unfortunately team members didnt keep discipline of maintaining tasks & deadlines. It is very good service, but not using it anymore. @cv2702 & @MArkMc - I will check zoom.us @Alaskan_Son that happened to us, we were allowing clients to send requirements on whatapps/emails/pinterest & it became unmanagable. Do you guys have suggestions for some service/tool where you can send image or pdf & let clients write/comment with arrows or some box right on the design. So if my client has 6 changes on a single page/drawing, they can drag drop box on this pdf/image and comment inside box. This need not be like in webinar or video-confernce, they can reply back when they get chance. Thanks for all help.

(This topic is not related to CA, I apologies if this breaks forum rules.) I need feedback/Guidance from CA users : We are team of 7 Designers using CA & we start 40-50 small design projects every month & would like to share designs/images with clients & get their feedback/approval / changes. I am able to search & I do find several collaboration tools, but I want to know from CA community if there is any suggestion. Thank you for help

Hello, what are various options (outside of CA cloud) for hosting 360 panoramic images generated by CA ? I am able to upload 360 images on Facebook & works nicely. However to share with client I will need some other option. - are there any free options ? - any paid websites which you are using ? - anyone using wordpress self hosted website to host 360 images, which plugin do you use ? Thanks

Hello Jintu Your work is very impressive, but with lot of humility, I am still not sure if using CA one can achieve photo realistic effect. I have asked Chief Team to share example of their best photo-realistic render of Kitchen/bedroom image. I am referring few links below, just to make point further clear by what I mean by photo realistic images. http://www.luxrender.net/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9076&g2_serialNumber=2 http://www.luxrender.net/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=7787&g2_serialNumber=2 http://www.luxrender.net/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16544&g2_serialNumber=2 Thanks

Hello Jintu Thank you for all help. I used the plan created by you & attached is rendered image result. This is good, (please don't get me wrong) but it - still misses photo-realisitic feel to great extent. Let me also send you few images we have rendered using CA. They are no way photo-realistic, but we have tried lot of things. There are several other software that create Photo realistic renders. I am not sure about how far setting corrections inside Chief Architect will deliver. I am sorry to sound negative, but I am really in a big confusion, my whole team uses CA Interior & client's complains about photo-realistic quality is killing whole show at my end. I tried using couple of accessories like simple table, flower vase, cup, mirror, chair inside an empty room, render it, and no way it looks realistic. I wrote same query to SSA support, but they have not come back with any response. 1.bmp 3.bmp 4.bmp

Hello Jintu My name is Krunal. I run an Interior design studio in Mumbai, India. Thank you for all help

hello Chiefer Yes this was made using CA x9 interior version. Thanks

Hello, I am attaching Plan & two material files used in making of this room. Please let me know what best Settings can be done in same. Thanks for all help Parents-Bedroom.plan

I have been struggling to get photo realistic 3d images through rendering. Most of my client complain about realistic looks of the images. When compared to 3d rendered images of several other software, CA's rendered images look very un-real. Below are some of the images chief team have displayed in CA website gallery : https://cloud.chiefarchitect.com/1/samples/interiors/timber-frame-office.jpg https://cloud.chiefarchitect.com/1/samples/interiors/mod-living-room.jpg https://cloud.chiefarchitect.com/1/samples/interiors/mod-eclectic.jpg These images do not look photo realistic. Can you please help me understand if this is best I can achieve in CA. Because I am really struggling to answer my clients repeatedly. All designers in my team use CA Interior. We design several homes every month. At-least half of the clients come back - complaining - that 3D/photos dont look good. It is affecting business. We are working very hard & may be we have missed few expert settings here & there, but even when I look at images shown in CA gallery - These are NO WAY photo real. Please reply. Thanks

Hello Friends I am using Chief Architect Interior X9. I have few questions regarding material quantity, is there any CA options that can easily give below quantity numbers. 1) How do I calculate sqaure feet (area) of plywood/wood used in a furniture ? 2) I want to calculate wall area that needs to be painted, How do I calculate area of wall inside a room ? 3) If I have applied wallpaper/wall covering on certain wall, how do I calculate square feet (quantity) of wallpaper used ? Instead of manually calculating areas of such items, is it possible to get them in button click. When you design you select & give dimension to these materials, so CA has all this information. How do I get these numbers out ? It doesn't make sense to calculate them manually. Please suggest Thanks Nitin

Thank you rlackore & TheKitchenAbode for inputs!

Hello Using Chief Architect Interior X9. I have strange problem. I have rendered an Image of a Kitchen. When I view this image on three different screens - it looks different. I am attaching following two images: 1) Actual-Rendered-Image.jpg quick rendered image of a kitchen 2) View-Laptop-Android-Iphone.jpg Viewing above image on three different screens (laptop, android moto phone & Iphone 4s. Colours Look different in each screen.(smallest screen is iPhone 4s) Does anyone understand what is going wrong here ? My clients complained several times about image looking yellowish, when I check at my end, it looks alright. It is very confusing to know what is going on. Thanks Nitin

Hello I am using Chief Architecture x8 Interior version. I want to find out if I can create Block of a simple room. Room has 4 walls, door, window. As soon as I select wall, I don't get "Add to library option" If above is not possible, is there any work-around ? Problem, I am trying to solve is - I want to start a project with a room which has walls, doors, window, & may be few other objects which will get re-used every-time. I want to drag & drop this room object & then I will customize this room block as per requirement. Thanks Nitin

I am trying to figure out if I can do following with material list in CA Interior : 1) Material list brings entry of Flooring Tiles with quantity & specification, however in addition to this I want to add one more new item "Cost of Flooring" everytime flooring tiles are in material list, how do I do this ? 2) Similarly if I add any wallpaper, I want to add default item "Cost of wallpaper application" . How do I add such labour cost items for various categories of materials ?

There is so much I have to explore in CA. I just started finding all details about material list. There are two things I am unable to figure out : 1) How do I change currency ? Instead of dollar want to use INR, where is the setting? 2) How do I add new column in material list & insert thumbnail/image of material ? ( image is same as what was used in material definition) Thanks Nitin

Hello Jon, what do you mean when you say "Strip a copy of your model of all furniture, fixtures, materials". Please explain. Thanks for help

I want to design room in Chief Architect (Interior) & then export/give project to someone who uses Sketchup. The Sketchup guy wants to generate 2D Floorplan, 2D Elevations, 2D Ceiling. Sketchup guy has to generate all 2D drawings & create PDF file. I do not care about texture/colours in this case, however I do need measurements Which file format should I export inside CA ? Will this be single file, I export in CA & give it to Sketchup ? Are there any other free softwares where CA project can be imported & all 2Ds could be viewed ?

So does that mean it has no connection / impact on Rendering quality ?

I have been importing many custom materials - tiles, decorative laminates, Decorative veneers, wall covering etc. Never thought of checking "Colour" field inside material definition box. Recently when I was comparing material given by Chief & my custom (imported) material, I realised the colour field in my case was always white or blank. See attached picture - 1.png is definition of material given by Chief & 2.png shows material definition of laminate imported by me. This time, I changed material Colour by using Color picker tool & render quality/performance has drastically improved. Render quality has improved, time required to render has reduced. I am going through KB & forums - and not able to find any instruction on what this "color" inside material definition stands for. 1) Can someone please explain what is this field about ? 2) What is best practice in giving value (color value) to material being imported ? 3) I am aware of using scale & size , pattern, fields. Are there any other material definition fields which has impact over render quality ? The other eye opener was, most material which comes in catalog by chief, have very small files(image size are sometime 40-50kb in size). Until yesterday, I thought bigger the material file size, better will be render quality. However image files of material given inside chief ( for example various wood shades) are very small in size. Thanks