Rendering

[John B]

I would like to get a good quality rendering program that would allow me to create professional looking renderings that I see in the "typical" home plans magazines. Any suggestions? Thanks.

[Dermot Dempsey]

Hello,

Chief Architect will have much better rendering capability in Version 7.0 which will be realeased sometime early next year. If you are not in a hurry I would recomend waiting before you buy any other rendering software. If you are in a hurry, I know that some of our users are big fans of POV-ray (which is free) and Artlantis. Maybe some other users could tell use what they use and what they like about it.

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Dermot Dempsey
Senior Software Engineer
ART, Inc.

[Charlie Williams]

For ease of use and speed, I use detailed Chief models exported to PaintShopPro or PhotoDeluxe. There are no shadows , but for brochures they look OK. You can see them at http://www.egroups.com/docvault/chief-udraw/ there are 3 renderings there - piperpsp; piperbw and Kuhns.
Charlie

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