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@Luis M Ruiz LOL that's why my ai renders aren't coming out, I'm not putting in "award winning" as a prompt!

I was just about to post this wish, but found this thread. I know we can lock objects, but it would be very helpful at reducing errors if we could lock the whole layer JUST LIKE WE CAN A REFERENCED DESIGN LAYER. .

Do you have an example of what you're trying to achieve?

This is a very good tutorial on Data Vis. https://www.andybroomell.com/masterclass-data-visualization It's hard to tell from your post, if you are having trouble w/ plan views or front elevations.

@Dave Donley that's a big improvement, and really helpful info!

Also a little disappointed that your image you gave to DallE looks nothing like the end result. Both are fails in my opinion.

@Kevin K yes, I could. These were for quick concepts and I was wanting to produce renders in seconds. Redshift is fast, but I actually wanted to be faster and a little more loose with the lighting.

Seems possible on my side. I just rendered in redshift these two images, there is only the background (same as yours) and 1 directional light. I turned the soft shadows option off on one, there is a clear difference.

If it's an exterior, have you tried environment lighting using a background? That usually gives pretty good results.

I updated my cloud services and am good to go.

Did I start it up to soon?

@rDesign definitely helpful. I'm so curious as when I look back at my previous renders there clearly were reflections and such. I'm going to try to rebuild the file and see where the gremlin lurks.

dropped the dpi settings down and still no luck. I'm wondering if it's a memory issue. I have a lot of very high resolution textures in the file.

@Dave Donley I will send you the file shortly.

same all across the board. I thought it might be the dpi settings (I'm at 600) but changing it does nothing.