A W.I.P. home

Thanks Jack, end of day update attached below.

Usually when I design a (floor) plan I’ve already got a very good idea what the roof is doing but this (very special) client wants a very specific style that I’ve not designed before…all that ‘architect-ey’ flat roof stuff. So I derw up the preliminary floor plans back in Nov/Dec without much notion about how I was going to handle the roof…scary for me.

Envisioneer has been stellar in quickly working it out here, though the client may very well still not like it hahahaha I’ve had a LOT of fun the last few days working on this model and plan a full interior/exterior model with walk-thru’s and 360* renders

I’ll post again when I work out the entry side of the house

I really have to thank you again for the tip on material intensity…liberally applied in the update render and I love how it has toned down the overall picture, combined with the Tree & Billboard reduction, it’s really a much more pleasant image to view and I wasn’t really aware of the problem

Much obliged!

conwe wrote:

SDS,

Whoa that one looks like a lot of fun. Really like the faceboard on that last render pic looks great! that just jumped out at me.

Conrad

Thanks Conrad, that double fascia board really does look great but I’ve got to give credit to Jack(?)

The sample pics from the client show it and the default envisioneer roof looked really plain without it…like, not acceptable. then I remembered a convo here on the forums about modeling ridge-caps & valleys. Someone had mentioned that you can create members that you can set to slope values and I’d been wanting to use it

it’s a 1×4 member set to slope on the roof rakes and using the roof properties dialog (e) Fascia Distance to elevate the horizontal pieces…it actually didn’t take too long to install them, well worth the effort!

I’ll probably be using them more often now that I can.

Now if I could only apply the method for modeling frieze boards!!

End of day Tuesday

Preliminary kitchen render…checking light levels, basic appearance in rendered form…always SUCH a hassle these interior renders. I love modeling them but I hate rendering them. There were no sample pics provided by the client for the kitchen so I expect everything here will change once they see it. I prefer darker finishes but the ladies always like it bright.

Stair screencap…the client is very particular about the stairs and provided a sample pic I’ve included here, I don’t have a wood finish dark enough to do it right so I went with a nice grey finish. When done I’ll transfer the actual design of the stairs from Envisioneer to my autocad plans, for construction…still a long way to go before the stairs are ready to render though.