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How to show floor plans with sketch type lines?

Hi all - I was wondering if there is a way to show a floor plan with the walls and windows set to look more sketch like. I love the program so far but I'm struggling with a way to present initial floor plan concepts that don't look too finished/final...

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CineRender Physical Clouds

Hi all, Has anyone gotten this setting to work? The few times I have tried to play around with it, I have just gotten a solid grey gradient... Ling.

Visualization of Archicad 21 FAILS

Please, team, help! Have one model created, but can not make a visualization - it stops on 22.09% of rendering in any PC (no matter that config each PC have - on each process stops on 22.09%). How it is possible to check this model for any bugs? Usin...

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Gi creates light "spots"

Hi I have a problem that GI creates spots of light in my renderings. When I turn GI off, I don't think the rendering looks as good. Is there any setting to minimize the spots, without turning off GI?

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Sun Position Error

Tricky setting I came across recently. If you change the sun position for a camera view in the view settings, it looks fine in the saved view. But when you place that saved view onto a layout, the sun setting defaults to the camera sun setting.

Sun Study Yellow Glow

Hi all, Is there a way to do a Sun Study without the glow off the building side facing the sun? A grey scale video where it looks like you have yellow flood lights pointing out of your buildings... Ling.

Composite wall not showing properly in 3D

Hi everyone - Something going on here in 3D views using AC 22 that I just cant seem to correct. In the attached image, I have circled the end wall condition of a composite wall that is showing the skins. I want it to be shown as a solid surface with ...

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Small patches of white dots in render

Hi, I am doing some rendering and have been noticing these little patches of white dots. Im assuming they have something to do with lighting but Im not sure why this is occuring. I am basically using "Indoor Lamps Only Medium (Physical)" with tiny ch...

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Venturing into VR - for ARCHICAD

Hi all and happy new year! I just thought I'd share our story about our journey with ARCHICAD and Virtual Reality for all that are interested: https://bim6x.com/blog/venturing-vr-archicad Cheers, Link.

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Twinmotion thoughts

I experimented with Twinmotion earlier this year, and gave up because it would crash every time before getting anywhere. Before I dive in again in vain, has anyone had any luck?

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Surface color

How do I change the surface color of this swimming pool to light brown, I am completely out of option. please help.

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Abvent releases Artlantis 2019

France's Abvent Group has announced Artlantis 2019, the latest version of its flagship rendering software. Producing photorealistic renderings for simulation, presentation, and communication in record time! Check out what’s new in Artlantis 2019 >> h...

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Rendering is Missing Objects

ArchiCAD 22 and Cinerender. I have custom settings setup. The perspective shows everything that I want, yet my rendering seems to be missing trees, window mullions, window shades (which are showing in shadow and window reflection). What's up Graphiso...

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New Tutorial Video: Lighting Tricks & Surface Studies

In this 24 minute video I demonstrate some of my favorite quick tricks to optimize lighting and adjust Surface settings to improve ARCHICAD 3D window views. Swap in and out different sets of Surfaces to study and compare schemes. The third installmen...

West Meets East

It's been a long looong time since I've posted anything from recent projects and I thought I'd post a few images from this current project which is still a Work-in-Progress. But I had produced some test renders of a couple of views to show material o...

Construction Animation

An good example for what I would like to do with my ArchiCAD models. https://constructioninstruction.com/building-resources/media/structural-insulated-panels-sips-2/ I have never had much luck with the ArchiCAD Construction Simulation add-on Does any...

Transparent lampshade

I am trying to render a kitchen that has a few pendant lights over the island but every time I do the lampshade, that is supposed to be frosted glass and translucent is coming out metallic and opaque. I have gone through the settings a couple of time...

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CineRender stopped working in AC20 and now AC22

Hi Everyone, Hope you're all doing great. I'm having big trouble with CineRender. Everything was going well (really great renderings) until when starting a rendering it never got out of preparing mode and locked up. Only way to get out when it locks ...

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Cinerender materials/textures greyed out

HELP! I have imported sketchup objects into my archicad to assist in the rendering presentation, however they only show textures properly in the internal engine. I have updated Cinerender settings from Internal for all of the "converted" surfaces but...

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Piranesi in limbo

I just realized that nobody had posted here to let users know that Piranesi is sort of in limbo at the moment - no clear means of activating licenses or getting support since Informatix Japan essentially cut off its own foot by terminating its relati...

Fly Through rendering EXTREMELY slow

Hello All, I am new to Archicad and I am trying to put together a fly through. I have had my rendering running for 360 hours and it is still not finished. Here is some info on my rendering.....It is on frame 293 of 382 in pass 12 of 13, I am running ...

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Resolved! 360 Views on Webpage

I'd like to have something like this: https://www.roomsketcher.com/features/360-view/ I want 360 views on my webpage of my model. Best would be a dynamic model viewer that was connected directly to the BIM Server, but I guess that's out of the questi...

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Resolved! lightning HDRI vs Sky

Is it only me but I have the feeling that we have better scenes with Sky than with HDRI library images. I can obtain much better and crispy images using Sky than HDRI. Is it only my feeling?

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Sun Study acting up

I merged a file from sketchup and now im trying to do a sun study but everytime the shadows completely cover the whole design and the study doesn't work. I have even tried just saving the 3d image but the same thing happens. Whats annoying the most i...

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View expanded when rendering

Hi, I'm just trying out rendering with AC21's 'Align Verticals' option ticked for the first time. It seems that what is displayed in my 3D Window doesn't match the rendered output - the render seems to show more of the scene, as if the Field of View ...

Displacement - Triangulation Issue

Hi, I'm playing around with CineRender's Brick shader, and trying to get some convincing results when using it in conjunction with Displacement. I've just done a test render and there seem to be some real oddities. The shadows between the bricks appe...

Alpha channel renders black

What am I missing? I do i the same way all the time - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I create a material with alpha channel, it looks correct in both material settings and 3d window, but renders black. I've tried with PNG and TIFF, and wit...

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Extremely slow to not at all renderings

Suddenly the rendering engines won't render. In several different settings from internal to cine-maxon to sketch it will start the process of rendering but then doesn't complete it. It's a fairly straight forward model of a single building. I think i...

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Breakup Sun Study Render

Hi all, Is there anyway to breakup a sun study render into multiple frame rates internally? ie. Render out 1 hour intervals, then render out 30 min intervals ignoring the 1hr intervals, etc. Each stage being usable in itself but saving time on the re...

First time using Rendering: Rendering too dark

Hi i am inputted a photo onto my structure wall on my work. It if comeing through very dark on 3D view i have been told to render the photo which should help the situation. I am having problems in doing this. I go through the photo rendering settings...

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anyone have a good setting for a fountain's water surface???

has anyone figured out good surface settings to replicate the water coming out of a spout? am looking for something that will look like the attached image but can't figure out what to use in the settings....

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Create new textures in Maxon & open GL

anyone have an idea how to create a new texture with custom colors? I don't have a JPG that matches what is needed, nor can I go out and take a picture of it. It's a shingle siding with an Owner's custom color. I tried various methods to color an exi...

Render Shadows Discolorization

I think this is a project related problem. The shadows in my render are coming out with an orange color to them. I just thought I'd ask to see if anyone had an ideas on why it would be like this. My render settings are set to Low or Medium, I can't r...

Resolved! Pendant Lamp 21 Not On after Render

Hi everyone. I've tried to look for a solution to my problem online but couldn't find it. I have used a Pendant Lamp 21 in my project but when I render an image, the lamp is always off. I have tried changing the settings to the best of my capabilitie...

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Textures archicad

I am trying to make another surface using the textures on the library of Archicad 21. But they have letters together with the name, like , a, b, c, that I asume means the code for a specific Chanel, bump, displacement, etc. How can I know the relatio...

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Darker renderings in AC21 compared to AC20

I have opened plns worked with AC20 with the new AC21 - I chose migrate libraries but that's not the case i think- and i used preset scene "indoor daylight medium - physical" and made some renderings. When compared to identical renderings i have done...

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Resolved! Surface Settings Default

Hi, I accidentally changed the Surface Settings for 'Glass: Clear Fast' and need to reset it to the default. Is there a way to do this in the program (AC21) or is there a list for all of the surfaces somewhere? Thanks in advance -

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Cinerender Sun Object

Hi everyone, I have a question about the Sun settings in ArchiCAD/Cinerender. I´ve always been under the impression that you did not have to make a Sun Object to make realistic sun lighting in ArchiCAD. But then I´ve also have had trouble making sunl...

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Black Mirror - 3D Cutaway

Hi all. I have stumbled upon something which I haven't seen before - mainly due to not having this composition before. I am doing a visual of a WC (exciting I know!), and to show it well I am using a 3D Cutaway, as you can see in the attached file be...

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Axonometric/two-point perspective CineRender

Hello, I'm new to this forum, so please forgive me if I post this in the wrong place. I have experienced some problems when it comes to rendering two-point perspectives and axonometric views. When rendering a saved view, the rendered image includes a...

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loaded image texture changes color!

hi everyone! i'm trying to load an Image texture to render a tiled floor. (see attachments) the tiles should have brownish colours but when i use the cinerender to render it changes to greenish gray? in the internal renderer the colours are fine so t...

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Rendering resolution

I'm trying to create a Photo rendering, 4000 sf house, and cannot get the clarity or resolution for a good quality rendering. I have set the size as small as 8" x 4" but the pixels per inch will not go above 550. Is this to be expected? How can I inc...

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Hide camera icon

After placing camera views in the floor how do I turn off the camera icons? I understand they will not show in the Layout Sheets but it is annoying to see them.

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Resolved! Rendering just a corner + Rendering color mask

Hello, I've worked for a long time with 3DSMax when doing my renders, but now at the office we are starting to use archicad and I found that the renderings from maxon are good enough for our intern meetings (and its quite practical to render direct f...

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Foggy Windows

I have windows set to transparent and am using the default Cinerender Daylight settings. However they are quite foggy. I have had success before but have not rendered in awhile. I transferred settings over from a previous project that worked well but...

Archicad 22 3D glasses?

Do we need to buy a box of 3D glasses for this and if so has anyone figured out which ones are best and where to buy them? Amazon? Brand? Best to all, Jonathan

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ArchiCAD ––––> Modo question

Hello guys. I have a question about exporting from Archicad to modo.. I was doing quite a big project in ArchiCAD and decided to make renders in modo.. So i exported the model as 3DS and opened it with modo.. Of course the layer with furniture i did ...

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CineRender output not matching preview?

Learning little bits at a time is how this goes and sometime need to ask for help. I'm trying to get the sunlight to show on the surfaces below a skylight in this bathroom. In real life the direct shades & shadows of the sunlight would not show becau...

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Night Scene

DISCLAIMER: I'm missing something obvious, I'm sure.... I am trying to render a scene at dusk... I've plowed my way thru many of the SKY settings and can generally get the lighting to represent a dusk scene.. However, I have the VIBRANT BLUE backgrou...

How to render to a taken site picture on archicad 21

Hi, I'm new to ArchiCAD and just need a few rendering tips. I have a few site pictures and I want to render my building into the picture while making it fit into the site. but sadly I don't know how to do this. Please before you laugh at me please re...

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Shadow areas all over

I found this rendering fine for my requirements, but I would like to get rid of the strange shadows I got (marked in orange color). I also would like to avoid the shadows that are spread all over the ceiling. It is the gypsi 60X60 material for ceilin...

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Twinmotion 2019 release trailer + LIVE webinar on June 18

https://youtu.be/ZmwvKxc-D0A Twinmotion 2019 will be released on June 21 at AIA Conference on Architecture 2018, booth n°1283. The first Twinmotion 2019 live webinar will be held next Monday (June 18) to present the key features in this new version, ...

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smoked glass effect?

I'm trying to get a smoked glass that I created to go darker in the CineRender engine. It looks fine in open gl and internal, but when I try to match settings either way or change values to get the glass to appear darker in CineRender it goes black &...

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Physical camera interior renderings

I know that physical camera is not very popular. I prefer to use it because I can control the parameters of exposure, speed, f, . Does any one use for interiors and want to share the settings. My best results until know are with f=8, iso 200 and Spee...

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Render stops @ around 14 minutes

Okay, so I have been trying to render this model and the render stops at around 14 minutes, but the render is left unfinished. I set the setting to Medium quality for the rendering and shadow quality. Also, I set the picture size to 5.33 x 4 inches a...

Rendering physical camera,

I use the physical camera rendering mainly because I have 2D objects in the drawing and I need to get rid off the traslucent box (for not opening photoshop ). During the rendering the procedure stuck out, so I wonder if I can change some values so I ...

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Black render

I am having problems with a view. When rendering is all black. No happens with other views. I also tried to make the rendering with the presets options and still black. Camera in right place I can see in openGL.

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Resolved! Aligning Project Rendering Views

Hello, I am trying to align two camera's in two different projects. In the first project, I did renders in. Then there were some major changes, so I started a whole new project and redid the whole model. I'm trying to align the camera in the new proj...

Views through more than one layer of glass

One layer of glass in archiCAD can be transparent, However I can find no way to see through more layers. For sun or the views. Is there a way to achieve this using ArchiCAD or can it only be achieved with other software? Thanks,

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Resolved! Painting a part of a wall only (not the whole wall)

Hello everyone! I have a little question, probably a pretty stupid one, but I'll ask anyway... So I'm working on an indoor modelisation af a small room, and I'd like to paint a part of a wall only, whithout changing the paint on the whole wall. In fa...

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Resolved! Rendered views placement/saving?

After you've rendered a view: Is there anyway to keep it within the AC file? I've had to do some white model renderings, and the process has been to save it outside the AC file when prompted whether to save the changes to image. It can't be saved as ...

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ARCHICAD (CINERENDER) : Night Rendering - Seeing through interior walls !

Hello, During night renderings (archicad 19 cinerender), I am having an akward issue wich is : seeing through the whole building (or few interior walls) ! Q: What i would like to achieve is : what i have in the 2nd picture + car reflection from pictu...

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Cinema 4D Exchange Textures

I hope this is the correct board to be posting on. I have been asked to do some renders for a client who has asked for some very specific furniture to be shown. I have found these items as Cinema 4D files, in Cinema 4D the textures are all correctly ...

Render interior

As you can see in the picture I am trying to render an interior from the exterior trough a curtain wall. I want to have the more depth of field to see the whole interior that is quite transparent, made most of them with curtains walls. I set up some ...

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Multiple renders

Hi All, I've got 4 renders to produce and not a lot of time. Just wondering whether I could do them at the same time, or should I just do them one at a time - which method would be fastest? Much appreciated.

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Thiner lines when saving GL view as pdf

The GL views are a quick way to make an informal presentation while first phases of a project. But there is one thing that I do not like, it is the thickness of the singles lines. I wonder if there is a way to make narrower lines while saving a PDF a...

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Resolved! Curved facade with tiles

I am making a curved facade with tiles. I know the precise measurements of the tiles. I choose the default tile material of 15X15. If mines have 45x90, how can I change de dimensions of the exterior texture of archicad.

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Resolved! Wobbly reflections in Cinerender

Hi, We are having issues wiht reflections in Cinerender (ArchiCAD 21). As you can see from the attachment, the reflections are coming out wobbly, instead of in straight lines as per the original subject. We are using the standard material from the ca...

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camera troubles

hello guys!i have some troubles with the camera. I want to make a perspective view through the 1st floor,but if i select my camera and i choose SHOW SELECTION/MARQUEE IN 3D,a ground floor perspective appears on my 3d viewport i have archicad 20 im ne...

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Resolved! materials

hello guys!i have a question.Can i add textures from my laptop(i mean as we do in photoshop,just uploading a jpg from our computer and converting it to a texture). or should i use just the textures given by arhicad(which are not enough for my renderi...

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Textures in 3D

I only occasionally use the built in rendering engines. I used the Design/Align 3d Texture/Set origin command to align the textures of the siding in this project. The texture comes out right in the Elevations, and the 3D Photorendering using the Sket...

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Resolved! CineRender MAXON in ArchiCad21

Hi! I'm learning how to render in CineRender MAXON in ArchiCad21. I used Artlantis before. I got w problem in queuing views to render. In Artlantis I had Batch, and I can click "Render Later" and run all renders at night or at weekend. I can't find t...

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Floor planks issue

Hi All, I am having trouble applying surface to each floor plank uniquely. Although i have tried to draw each plank individually, the surface is still mirrored horizontally in CineRender across the floor. my image size is 1220x180 pixels, plank size ...

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2D Sketch Render a Floor Plan in AC11

Is there a quick way to sketch render a floor plan in AC11? I have found a thread from 2003 describing a way to do this but it involves a plotter (which I don't have) and it is for V.8 & 9. Plus it looked like it would take a long time. Just looking ...

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CineRender Alternatives

Hey everyone, To do renders at my office, we currently use CineRender in ArchiCAD. I'm quite happy with the quality of the renders, but to do the renders, we have to do them in ArchiCAD. The problem with this is that the renders lock up the computer ...

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Cinerender Artifacts - how to solve them

Hi guys, I'm preparing a short fly-through and I found a good balance between speed/quality, also considering that I set the resolution to 1365x768. However I get very annoying artifacts ... Have a look at the attached picture. Does anybody can tell ...

Color Matching

Hello, Color matching is difficult for me in ArchiCAD. If I'm in the OpenGL and I adjust the Surface Color, I can get an exact match to a color chip. Yet when I close out of the Surface Settings, the models color doesn't match what it should be. I fo...

Grass rendering coordinates (spherical, etc.) NOT working

So, while building my own grass surface material, I came up with this very neat trick outlined by Graphisoft's own site: "Tips and Tricks for Using Grass • If you want to let grass grow on a plane with a green material assigned to it, the Density set...

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CineRender back-up

I was rendering a fly-through over the weekend but Archicad crashed due to low disk space. Is there a possibility of recovering the process or at least like a fragment of the memory so when I render it again it won't have to be from scratch? Just hop...

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alpha map

Hi! I use tif texture with alpha map. Alpha map is white background with black dots. I need it to get perforations on my surface. with internal engine everything works well. I have those perforations and the rest is corten solid surfaace. Problem sta...

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Resolved! Additional Surface Catalog for AC21

Hi- Has anyone downloaded the Additional Surface Catalog for AC21? How did you go about doing it? I seem to be having difficulty getting it to download. Wondering what I am missing in the process. I am on subscription. Thanks- Greg

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qtguiagent.exe

Is qtguiagent.exe used by Cinerender?

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No Texture in Cinerender

Hello guys, Recently I am struggling with cinerender surface texture. I load a picture to internal Engine, set up everything, but when I match settings [Cineredner to match from Internal] it shows just.... black. It never happed before, no matter in ...

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Not enough Scrap-Memory for Copy

Hi, The alert Not Enough Scrap-Memory for Copy just came up when I tried to copy shadows from 3D, I quit Archicad and restarted and this still came up when I tried it again? Thanks Naomi

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Best rendering software for Archicad Architectural?

Hello all, I work for a high profile architectural firm in NZ we are looking at upgrading to a new visualisation software for presentations of our mid-high end architectural projects We currently use the latest Archicad and we are using Artlantis stu...

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Center render on screen when marquee

I wonder if there is a way which I can view the render image center in the screen not fixed in the upper corner. It is not a big problem but very annoying

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connect bimx with twinmotion

if possible,, Twinmotion Render Near to realistic than Bimx,, if the coordination between Bimx and Twinmotion as the Render quality and Vr Headset in Both .. and we can't neglect access of Plans and Section and Elevation in Bimx ... all in one app .....

CineRender problem in Archicad 21, Mac Os

Hello everyone, I searched around the forum but can not find any solution, so I'll just post there, may be someone can help me. I'm using MacBook Pro 13, 2016 (Touchbar Version) and Archicad 21, Build 4022. Since yesterday each time when I render in ...

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GI and its influence on rendering

Does the calculation time for GI depends of the resolution of the rendering or its not depends on that, and only the rendering time depends on the resolution selected for your work.

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IES Lights - bug?

Hi, I'm struggling with IES lights. I think there's a bug in the IES light library part or in the cinerender engine. I set my scene with different ies lights but what I note is that different photometries are rendered with the same power. Light distr...

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Vertical stacked CMU texture

We have a client that wants to do vertical stacked cmu rather than a running bond. Need to show in a rendering. Anybody have a texture of that they would be willing to share? My texture creation skills are lacking at best. Thanks in advance.

Light strips along corners

Hello, I've been struggling with this issue for a long time so I decided to ask for an advice here. I can't get rid of these light strips/spots along corners and don't know what causes that. Do you know why is that? I guess it has something to do wit...

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Moire effect

I am making a rendering of an entrance of a building with terrazzo flooring. I download a texture I am happy with but when rendering it has moire effect, of course I was waiting it, but I wonder if there is a way to get rid of it. Thank you

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Background image not visible in render

Hello, I'm struggling for some time now with background image in rendering settings. The thig is that it is not visible in the final render image - widows glass is greyed out, although it is visible on the preview in rendering settings panel. Any ide...

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Render 360 Panoramic Image

Hi, has anyone successfully managed to use CineRender's Cylindrical Lens effect to achieve a 360 panoramic image? I'm thinking the sort of thing I could then upload to Yulio or RoundMe to achieve 'VR'... I can't work out the settings - what on earth ...

white model effect with texture?

Probably a big ask here, but maybe worth a go anyway. New to AC 19 all the way from 12 so behind the curve for sure, but covering some ground and I am very happy with the Cinerender white model effect for my renderings - A super clean and simple way ...

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Archicad 21 exportable formats

i used to use the old version of Artlantis "Artlantis studio v5.1.2.4" along with Archicad20 , i was exporting from AC20 to Art5 directly, but now since i started using AC21 i couldn't do the same again cause AC21 export only to the latest version of...

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Lighter interiors

Thank you to Erwin in a previous post I got to render an scene with 4 lights. But as you can see in the attached pic I still have 2 problems. 1 The interior is still quite dark I can't increase the intensity of the lights, otherwise they will burn th...

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Cinerender Black Reflections

Hi all, I am having issues whilst using the cinerender engine when faced with multiple layers of glass. It seems that I have reached the 'maximum' number of reflections that can be calculated, and therefore within that area, the reflections/glass jus...

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Long time rendering easy scene

I am newie in archicad. Its my first scene rendering. IT is a very small scene of an stair case with 4 fluorescent lights. I choose the indoor final preset for a 2000 pixels quality and it goes through GI rather quick but it is going very slowing ren...

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AC21 sun study not working?

Hi everyone! I'm trying the "create sun-study" feature in AC21, and it doesn't work. I push the "show" button and in my 3d window, although the "loading model" pop-up screen appears, the shadows are not moving... It worked for me in previous AC versi...

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Render resolution

Hi everyone, I have recently started using archicad and i am learning the basics. When doing renders for sketches especially the resolution is really bad and i would like to know how this can be improved? The image is really pixelated

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Material tint on rendering

I am rendering an interior. And the flooring which is linoleum is tinting the whole scene with its color, is there a way to avoid this. Regards

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Glass problem in render

Hi,I have a old problem in rendering on other softwares, regarding window and door glass.The glass is made from two layers and everytime when I import and render in other software like lumion or twinmotion, the glass is not transparent. Is there any ...

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Cloud Rendering

I've search and asked before and there doesn't seem to be any cloud rendering infrastructure which can be incorporated into ArchiCAD, like Revit does. Revit has a button that sends off the scene to a cloud render farm. Anyways, is there some other wa...

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environment

I'm trying to prepare some basic presentation of a housing project , but the trees , bushes provided with AC are quite poor in 3D.Is it possible to download better ones from anywhere or there is a way to adjust the built-in ones to look better.I use ...

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Open GL camera view placed on layout bad quality

Could anybody know why the view of the camera loses significantly its quality when placed on layout. The lines appear rather interrupted and not straight.. For info, the project was created in Archicad 18 or 19 and currently updated to 21. Could it b...

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Rendering using External Hard Drive - Memory Low

Hello, I'm attempting to create a rendering of roughly 6,000 x 2,000 pixels with Archicad21. I am using a laptop with the following specs: HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation Laptop: 17.3" FHD (1920x1080), Intel Quad-Core i7-4810MQ, NVIDIA Quadro K3100...

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Decent guides for Surface Channel options

Hi, I'm trying to push CineRender a bit to see what we can get as a more flat, graphic look. I feel I'm halfway there, but could really do with a deeper understanding of some of the more advanced shaders. Does anyone know of any good references / tut...

Shadow Casting new elements

Query 1: I am trying to cast an axonometric shadow of existing elements and new elements. The new elements will only cast a shadow in grey if the element it is casting onto is existing. I have set a colour shadow under 3D document settings to the des...

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Texture repetition problem

Hello everybody! I have now created a number of CineRender surfaces by using only different shaders and layers. I am starting to find it inspiring and fun in many ways. The benefit of not using images is, beside much less heavy files and faster rende...

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Need URGENT help with Photorendering

My perspectives rendered beautifully and then suddenly started to render all the levels in my building instead of just the section that I've zoomed in and selected for the rendering process. What am I doing wrong? I've gone through all the settings b...

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Glass reflexion of the phisical sky

Hello people, How do I get the environment reflection in the windows, like the sky and surroundings..My windows look pretty dark..and they do not reflect the sky.. For rendering i used the basic settings (see attached print-screen), I have played a l...

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seamless texture

Hi, I am trying to render a perforated and corrugated metal sheet. The sheet is modelled as separate wall elements. Every time the wall changes it`s angle, the texture gets a little messed up. Is there a way to make the texture flowing seamlessly, sh...

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3D Window Settings in AC21

Hi, I'm just starting to explore AC21 for the first time, having been working in AC19 for a few years. I can't seem to find the 3D Window Settings dialogue to fix the dimensions of my 3D window anywhere. It seems to have been replaced by the 3D Style...

Rendering problem - intersection of surfaces

Hello everyone, I have recently upgraded to ArchiCAD 21 and am currently experiencing an extremely irritating problem. As you can see marked with red outlines in the attached image, there are some problems with rendering the intersections of surfaces...

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Photorender Scenes disappearing in Teamwork files

Hi, we've had a few cases of staff saving their CineRender settings as Scenes within teamworked ArchiCAD 19 files. They've then found that later on, their scene files have disappeared from the list of stored scenes. It's not the case that other team ...

Mineral Wool Texture

Hi, does anyone have a source for a good mineral wool texture to use as a surface? Thanks!

Photorender preview

Why is it that in the CineRender and Basic Renderer you can see an accurate preview of the render, but when you use the sketch rendering option, the preview is generic? It's been like this for quite a few years.

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Render view proportions

Is there any way I could fix the proportion of the render view? Quite often I am doing some renders with the same camera to exchange the render on photoshop. But whenever I switch between the monitors or adjust the toolbar placement it adjusts the re...

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How to paint a wall separately?

How to paint my walls as the sample (image) in different colors and why my walls near the grounds are colored. What settings to change in my Render Menu or what settings to set on material settings.[img]

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Please help me learn to like CineRender.

I have huge problems getting used to, and getting to like CineRender instead of LightWorks. I have recently started to use AC 20 and I just can’t make this rendering function work. Before, while working on a model I used to take test pictures in Ligh...

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Education version - low-resolution 3D exports?

*** This is a bit of an emergency as I have a school presentation tomorrow and I am unable to export my images correctly at the moment. *** How do I create a 3D view that isn't terribly low resolution? I keep running into this (I'm using AC21 but it ...

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Exporting form AC21 to SU

until version 19 of archicad when you exported to SU, the model came out with its textures and separated by faces, now, since version 20, the model does not come out with its correct textures and is grouped by groups of objects, which makes it very d...

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Help with basic rendering option...

I am new to ArchiCAD and the rendering options. I came from using AutoCAD for drafting and SketchUp as my model builder/rendering tool. So far I love ArchiCAD but I am having a really tough time figuring out how to get just basic sketches from the mo...

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Image Style

Does anyone know how to do this with Coral PaintShop ? Is there a name for this kind of image that fades from sketch on one side to render on the other ? I assume you there is some kind of tool you can use to fade one image into another. What is that...

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VR / Design Immersion

I am impressed with where technology is taking us, and I am ready to go there. However, I can't help but compare this to watching a movie vs reading the book. It's a different experience, but I am not ready to say that it's a better experience. What ...

Problem with glass transparency / with windows

Good afternoon to everyone, I have a small problem with windows and transparency of glass. When I start rendering, through the window I can´t see other window behind this one (it is shown in attached picture) and sometimes it is making strange stains...

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Photographic Montage of House

I need to prepare a photographic montage of a house on a site I have photographed. How do I place a 3d model of my house on a photograph of a site. The external content options are not available in 3d view.

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exclude an element from rendering?

Is there a way to exclude elements from rendering? In my case I have a wall which I do not want to appear in the visualization. I know it it possible in 3D Max. Is there a way around this using Cinerender in Arch 18? I haven't been able to figure it ...

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Glass in White Model render

I would like to reproduce the effect of showing the glass with its settings in a White Model render but I don't know how I did it. The glass in the car windows it not the same as the glass in the windows - but they have been assigned the same materia...

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C4D Import with Editable Materials

Working in AC21 and when I merge in a model I created in C4D, no matter if I have polygon selections, or set C4D materials, AC creates the GDL object with those material settings hard coded and I have no option to select surfaces in AC. I can use C4D...

How do I get AC to stop asking me ...

... whether or not to save each rendered image when I close a tab? I do a lot of quick partial renders to check stuff in 3D, and don't want to save them. It is aggravating and disruptive to have to tell it to not save every single one of them. I'm un...

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Maintain Window Transparency with Plant Materials

I have seen some other references to issues with plant materials being solved using Physical Render as opposed to Cinerender. I have not yet tried that but my problems seem to be that the "bounding box" if the plant material seems to change the trans...

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AC21 CineRender Fly-Through bug?

I used a combination of GWL trees and AC21 trees in my model. The enclosed screenshot illustrates a bug(?) if CineRender is used in creating a fly-through. The left side of the enclosed screen shot is a CineRender image of the model, based on one of ...

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3D Surfaces

Hi guys, I'm working on a project, and the external finish is a brick, but where the ground floor and first floor meet, the brick stops, and starts again, but i want it to flow nicely all the way to the top. i have added an image of what i mean. if y...

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PhotoRender view folder coordination with 3D Window views

I have two folders in my View Map, each containing the same 3D views: one folder for generating views in the 3D Window, so I can work on the model, and a second folder of the same identical views to be generated in the PhotoRendering Window. The purp...

Batch render AC21 teamwork bug?

I set up a batch render in AC21 teamwork, saving views using view settings: PhotoRendering window, OpenGL, General Purpose Balanced. These views do give me renderings when I click on each one individually and I can save the images individually. Howev...

Rendering area not visible in the window - Safe Frame

I created a view for rendering without using an option 'Apply Render Safe Frame'. Now I'd like to render only a part of it using Marquee option but the part of image that needs to be re-rendered it's outside the 3D window. Is there any option in View...

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ArchiCAD Render Farm Plugin

I've got lots of stuff to render and I wonder if there is an easy plugin that interfaces with some render farm directly from ArchiCAD? , in such a way that I get a "render" button that sends of the model to the render farm and returns a finished rend...

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Export video to image frames from publisher

I'm pretty happy with my AC renderings at the moment and don't feel the need to export the model into another engine. Am I correct in saying there is no way to publish an image sequence from the publishing set and the only way to achieve this is via ...

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Terrain mesh surface smoothness...

I have an early-stages mesh terrain model in progress and have a question about settings for the ridges. This was created in AC20 by adding polylines to a mesh and setting elevation for "all" line by line to build up the terrain. I am trying to achie...

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dichroic glass material

Hey Guys, I'm a bit stumped on producing a dichoric glass material. I'v tried a few things but it's just not working. I'm hoping someone could give some direction on how this could be done. I know Lumion so I would suggest it's achievable. Here is an...

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Light bleed in corners

Hi, Has anyone come across these artifacts in Cinerender? Not sure if it's a setting or bug. There is no gap between the walls I have a window light located outside the adjoining window... and a sun object externally thanks AC 20 windows 10 build 502...

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No background render image

Hello all, i'm quite new to Archicad and I was wondering which setting do I have to use so I can render my image without background. I can't make it happen, cause if I remove background, image goes very dark. I just want my render without background ...