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Aerial over the valley, summer midday
Exterior, view 03. Attach the model screenshot, then paste the prompt.
The card
render kit 03 of 14Aerial over the valley, summer midday
The notes
renderedExterior · view 03 of 14 · for ChatGPT image generation, in landscape format.
Attach model-aerial.jpg (shape reference), the screenshot from the model's Aerial view. The screenshot is retaken from the model on the idea's page, which shows the roof window; the concept book's own screenshot hid it under wing 2's roof. The first image here is the result, made from this screenshot; the second is the first take, made from the book's.
Start a fresh chat for each view, so it does not borrow from the last image. Attach only the one reference image named, if there is one, then paste the prompt.
how it came out
The second take keeps the roof window on the main slope near the valley, where the first take lost it. The shed, the vegetable patch, the washing line, the track and the stream all came through again. The yard table has no chairs.
prompt
Turn the attached 3D model image into a photorealistic architectural photograph. Keep the exact shape, proportions, camera angle and position of every window, door and roof from the attached image. Only change the materials, lighting and surroundings as described below.
Setting: high summer midday, bright sun, a few soft clouds casting shadows across the fields. Drone about 40 metres up to the south-west, looking down.
Shape rules (do not change these from the image): a modest one-and-a-half storey house in an L-shape. Two simple gabled wings meet at a right angle, each about 5.4 metres wide, with steep 45 degree roofs of the same ridge height that meet in one clean valley. The main wing is about 9 metres long; the second wing projects about 3.6 metres from one end. The eaves are low, about 4 metres up, so the roof is the main shape and the bedrooms sit inside it, lit by windows in the gable ends. No dormers, no chimney stack, no porch, no extensions.
Materials:
- Walls: vertical untreated larch boards, weathered to an even soft silver-grey with a little honey colour left under the eaves, with slim dark grey corner trims.
- Roof: dark grey fibre-cement slates in neat straight courses, crisp thin verges with a small overhang, a lead-lined valley, slim black half-round gutters and downpipes.
- Windows and doors: plain standard-size casement windows with slim anthracite grey frames, set neatly in the boarding. Only one roof window, in the main wing's roof slope that faces the yard, close to the valley.
- Base: the house sits on a low dark timber skirting just above a narrow strip of pale gravel. No brick or stone plinth.
- A single slim black steel stove flue rising through the north roof slope near the west end.
- The flagged yard in the corner of the L with its table, raised beds and a washing line.
- A small timber shed and a vegetable patch a little way off to the west, and a gravel track arriving from the north.
Surroundings: the house sits alone in a flat walled paddock in a Peak District valley, a patchwork of small fields with dry stone walls, a stream lined with alders, gritstone edges and moorland rising beyond.
Style: high-end architectural drone photography, natural colours, sharp detail. Avoid: changing the shape, dormers, brick, render, stone walls on the house, porches, conservatories, big glass walls, barn conversion look, modern villa look, people, text.
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