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there is a defringe and matting tool in photoshop, you can specify how many pixels of "fringe" you want to cut off.
Doesn't let vw off the hook for not providing alpha transparency export tho.
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I fail to see the point of adjusting anything in the user interface if the user is not allowed to adjust it to their needs. After all, they are the "user," not the developer. If you take a look at the C4D user interface, you will see that practically everything is adjustable, from what's on a palette to where the palette is. They provide multiple starting point workspaces for different tasks and then let the user create whatever they want from those.
To me that is the only way to create a user interface, since we all have different needs and different ways of working. We are not talking about an iphone here, where every user is using the same hardware.
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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!
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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.
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Do you have an example of what you're trying to achieve?
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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.
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@Dave Donley that's a big improvement, and really helpful info!
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Also a little disappointed that your image you gave to DallE looks nothing like the end result. Both are fails in my opinion.
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@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.
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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.
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If it's an exterior, have you tried environment lighting using a background? That usually gives pretty good results.
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I updated my cloud services and am good to go.
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Did I start it up to soon?
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@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.
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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.
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@Dave Donley I will send you the file shortly.
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same all across the board. I thought it might be the dpi settings (I'm at 600) but changing it does nothing.
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What's going on here? In my model space I get more saturation, reflections, etc. In the viewports I'm getting washed out, no reflections.
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So playing with the callout tool, I can turn off the bubble, and turn off the leader and the arrow, which just gives me the text. So I guess you could have a bunch of these callouts laid out for your notes, but you wouldn't get your asterisks unless you manually entered them, or had them as part of the note. There is a setting to make the first 21 characters of the note be the description, that might help you find them...
It would seem like the best thing (I didn't say the fastest thing) would be for VW to allow for a "General Notes Style" where you get to dictate the formatting.
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@Jeff Prince it is very interesting, reading how the sausage is made. Clearly the technology is not there yet, but shows progress. I'm standing by, ready to jump in when there are less bugs and details to hash out.
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I've been playing around with wall components, and built a wall style that has a rough cornice set at the top. I can't get the cornice to show up as dashed lines though, I always have this black bounding line. If I turn off the lineweight in the attributes, all of the lines disappear. What am I doing wrong? You can see here I've set the cornice lineweight and graphic to magenta and dashed...
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I would check the VW documentation first, they are pretty clear abt workgroup folders (which is what you want).
The file structure is going to be the same as each user's preference folder, which in the pc world is in appdata. You can find the location when you edit VW preferences and look at the "user folder" section. Bad things can happen if you don't keep the folder layout the same as your user folder layout, so you are basically copying the whole thing and putting it on a cloud or server for everyone to access, and renaming the top folder something like "workgroup folder."
Everyone needs to add that new folder using their VW preferences, user folder dialog, then restart their software. The workgroup will show up in the resource manager, and you will see any files that are not the default files in your user folders.
Your library folder is going to be where you put your favorite models and such. Everyone will have access to it so you can:
-reference in an object, which will update if others update the original
-import the object, which will be your own copy and not affect the original
-open the file directly from the resource manager, make changes and save it, thus updating everyone's referenced objects if you changed them.
You can also put plugins into the plugin folder, which can be very helpful if you have a field machine and an office machine, as they will get their plugins from the workgroup folder instead of the user folder.
Hope that helps!
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Thanks for the input. I keep looking for a solution that is not an expensive scanner, but sounds like we are not there yet. When I add up the costs of hours spent surveying+missed measurements+making things fit after the fact, I probably just need to get over it.
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@Kevin Allen close as in you could use it to replace old school surveying with a tape measure? Or to augment it? I've used matterport and it seems to work well, helpful for those "Crap I forgot to measure that one thing" moment. I still want a laser and a tape measure though.
I'm more interested in the room plan feature rather than the photo to 3D. I would use that for putting a chair in a render, probably just as you would.
PNG export with alpha channel for transparency
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@Jeff Prince It does support an alpha channel.
But what it doesn't have is the object buffer system like C4D. Where you can render out multiple alpha channels for different objects. When I speak of alpha transparency export, that's what I am referring to. So to @Kaare Baekgaard's point, I read that as what he is wanting.