krishutchison

Good point about the lens flare thing.

What are the things that are really no big deal but annoy the hell out of you when you see them in images? A couple I can think of for me are: 1. stock people who have shadows that do not match the scene. 2. When the grass and footpath are exactly the same plane.

Thanks for the input. I have ten years of experience but have not had time to try out every new thing. People who are new to this stuff often bring new ideas. I have done everything from interior shots of a single room to massive projects that take up an entire suburb. I do minimal post processing because I usually do not have time. I do not plan to use archicad or vectorworks for stuff like furniture or light fittings. Keeping things on a limited budget I am thinking of trying out cheetah3d for that. (I am too slow with blender) Probably going to go with archicad because AutoCAD is no good on a Mac

Switching to mac from windows is happening. the 3D department is small and is having to live with it. ok if you are working back and forth with designers then remodeling all the time to keep up with changes is difficult so 2d/3d intergration seems better than contantly measuring for changes they may not have mentioned (this may have caused me trouble in the past) designers and documenters may not always have time to make plans pretty so offering pretty plans for marketing can add real value. yes I am asking a bunch of strangers about what they think. Have you seen a forum before? I have talked to a million software reps, but they are all 90% BS.

We are about to do a complete revamp and are going all Mac. Coming from a of background slot of this is new to me. We do not want to run Windows on Mac We are looking to produce pretty 3D images as well as nice looking 2D plans for marketing stuff ( I recomend everyone start offering that as architects plans are mostly ugly ) We want to have the 2D and 3D integrated because drawing everything twice is silly. At the moment I am leaning towards archicad because it produces the best looking plans and is supposed to be fast for 3D. I am a bit stuck on what rendering software to use. At the moment I am thinking of switching to maxwell as it integrates well with archicad. I do not have time to trial a bunch of software. Any suggestions?

I am an architect and do a fair bit of archvis as part of the process. Also it is good to know a bit about visualization before you ask for miracles. Max does seem like a better piece of software. Especially for integration back and forth between cad and models. Sketchup was pretty good when it was part of Google but has gone downhill since it was sold off. The only good thing about Sketchup is that there is no learning curve. Just switch it on and push the buttons. I would love to find an alternative to Sketchup that is just as fast to model with but have not found anything that comes close.