When will Chief incorporate AI for rendering? It’s time

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I dunno, It seems like a lot of typing and knowing what to type. It looks like style palettes for furniture.  it uses the keyword "view" to change the backdrop (what if you want a different snowy backdrop, do you type, view: next snowy (reminds me of autocad in the 90s)?). I think I'd rather have a non modal floating window with the different palettes (CA's room, a new one for furniture) where I can see the preview of the different palettes and pick the one I want.

 

I find these types of things, unless they are very very polished, are slower than what could be  accomplished with more functionality and more control in the UI. 

 

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4 hours ago, SHCanada2 said:

I dunno, It seems like a lot of typing and knowing what to type. It looks like style palettes for furniture.  it uses the keyword "view" to change the backdrop (what if you want a different snowy backdrop, do you type, view: next snowy (reminds me of autocad in the 90s)?). I think I'd rather have a non modal floating window with the different palettes (CA's room, a new one for furniture) where I can see the preview of the different palettes and pick the one I want.

 

I find these types of things, unless they are very very polished, are slower than what could be  accomplished with more functionality and more control in the UI. 

 

  You can save and then copy and paste your scripts for one thing

and AI is getting better and more intuitive every day.

   Doubt if it will be long before you can tell it to create a building 24' x 48' with

2 stories 3 bedrooms, 8/12 hip roof, etc., etc, and it will do so ...

   Currnetly, if you want a backdrop with snowy mountains, lake or river, and pine trees on a sunny day,

just copy and paste that saved script and get 3 quick views for your review

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20 hours ago, basketballman said:

You can save and then copy and paste your scripts for one thing

and AI is getting better and more intuitive every day.

   Doubt if it will be long before you can tell it to create a building 24' x 48' with

2 stories 3 bedrooms, 8/12 hip roof, etc., etc, and it will do so ...

   Currnetly, if you want a backdrop with snowy mountains, lake or river, and pine trees on a sunny day,

just copy and paste that saved script and get 3 quick views for your review

then why not just create a "scene" which incorporates the 2 palettes(room and furniture) and the backdrop?

 

I'd rather click thru different "snowy" backdrops(with a preview) in the library (by searching for snowy) and watch the scene change, as opposed to sitting there and copy and paste different backdrop names from a script (you would then need to search thru the scripts looking for the one you want, and have to know them by name because you could not actually see what they looked like)

 

Where I think CA could be better is the search and result set, and the requirement to go into the background dialog box to specify it. It would be nice to click on the background in the 3d view, search for snowy (because it knows I clicked on the backdrop so it filters the results for backdrops) and pick the one I want to try, then click the next one. 

 

The attributes on the library could use some improvement. For instance I cannot search for a square dining room table which is about 5ft wide.

 

 

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54 minutes ago, SHCanada2 said:

then why not just create a "scene" which incorporates the 2 palettes(room and furniture) and the backdrop?

The hardest thing in rendering is lighting and materials. 
Ai is great for that. 
 

As far as your background or anything else you want to control then you can just prompt the ai to “keep background” 

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On 12/15/2024 at 2:16 PM, modelermatt said:

Everyone wants something different. I would love the ability to import cloud scans and model on top of them. If we pay for software, we should have the right to vote on where we want developers to focus their energy.

Most cloud point services offer a converted obj file which chief can import.

Regarding Ai request...it's just not ready for prime time...you might get 1 good image out of 20 and it will just cause a bunch of support calls. I am with Jason on this one. Drastically improve the style palette tool to incorporate roof and trim styles and exterior materials and landscaping and then we could get great images programmatically which would be accurate.
 

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14 hours ago, ComputerMaster86 said:

If I was chief I wouldn't waste time with AI.  Their resources are better spent  on other things.

 

or spend 5 minutes on it just to say you have it, as sexy sells.

 

or have someone do a side by side video with a timer to see if the AI above is faster than just using the UI. I can't imagine sitting there typing. background:next sowny, and then looking at that one and not liking it and then typing background: next snowy

 

I'd go crazy

 

Now if it did each snowy one for 5 seconds giving me enough time to tag my favorites and go back and forth like a music player, that might be useful. But that is not AI, that is just regular software

 

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To me, the real usefulness of AI is idea generation.

 

 There are about 140 different design styles in existence including modern, contemporary, mid century modern, farmhouse, industrial, etc

In the high end market, especially, this is very important

AI is a great way to quickly determine the general style characteristics that work for each of one us or our clients ...

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2 hours ago, Michael_Gia said:

you guys all sound like, "the horseless carriage will never catch on", what if you run out of gas?  Besides there aren't enough roads...

 

that reminds me of one of my favorite quotes. "analogies are like statistics, I can always find out that goes my way" :)

 

my two cents, everything is being branded "AI", where 90% of it is just normal software. In my view, unless the software is looking up and scraping information from large databases of disparate historical information, and bringing that into context,  it ain't AI.

 

but this thread did give me a good suggestion for CA: I should be able to search for backgrounds with lakes, and the software cycle through them on my RTRT view with a backwards and a forwards buttons, allowing me to then pick the one I want. Vs today where I go in try and find all the ones with lakes, then go into the dbx and select each, close the dbx, rinse repeat..

 

And then CA can do a side by side video of that functionality compared to archicad above where I have to sit there typing it.

 

This all reminds me a bit of the difference between calling into to a system that says press 1 for x, press 2 for y, vs the system that says, tell me a bit about what you would like to do, and then the software keys off of keywords to then ask you another question, and another. I've sworn at those systems more times than I can count (plus once you swear they just send you to an agent). Well that wasn't considered AI back then (15 years ago), but I'm sure whomever is selling that system today has rebranded it AI. sexy sells

 

 

 

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