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East side, late autumn
Exterior, view 04. Attach the model screenshot, then paste the prompt.
The card
render kit 04 of 14East side, late autumn
The notes
renderedExterior · view 04 of 14 · for ChatGPT image generation, in landscape format.
Attach model-east.jpg (shape reference), the screenshot from the model's East side view. The render here was made from the concept book's own screenshot of its model, which hid the roof window under wing 2's roof; the screenshot on this page is retaken from the model on the idea's page. The first image here is the result.
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 light, the mist and the bracken landed. The stile came out as timber with a bench, which the prompt asked it not to be.
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: a late October afternoon, low golden sun from the south-west raking across the walls, a light mist lying in the valley beyond. Camera at eye height to the east, 35mm lens.
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 long east wall is quiet larch with just a few small windows; the gable of the main wing rises above.
- The silver larch catches the warm low light; a few fallen leaves on the gravel strip.
Surroundings: a flat paddock in a quiet Peak District valley: dry stone walls, rough grazing with a few sheep in the distance, hawthorns and one old ash tree, gritstone edges along the skyline. Bracken turned rust brown on the hillsides, the ash tree turning yellow, a dry stone wall in the foreground with a simple stone step stile built into it (flat stones jutting from the wall, no wooden bench).
Style: high-end architectural photography, natural colours, crisp detail, real weathering and texture. 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.
The plates
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