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The shell going up on a bright late-spring day, from the yard side to the south-west. The ground floor walls of both wings stand in timber stud frame sheathed in pale OSB, with window and door openings cut but empty, on a deck over small concrete pads. The upper floor deck is down, and pairs of new timber rafters on both wings rise to one ridge height and meet in a valley. Tube scaffolding with timber boards and a ladder runs round at deck level. Pallets of slates, rolls of breather membrane, a stack of battens and two loads under green tarpaulins wait on the grass, with flags laid where the yard will be, and dry stone walls, a big tree and limestone edges beyond. Off brief: there are no knee walls, so the rafters sit straight on the upper deck, and the second wing's gable sits almost flush with the main wing instead of 3.6 m in front of it.

← the floorSelf-Build House/render kit·if / 077

Rafters up

Build stage, view 13. Attach the model screenshot, then paste the prompt.

The card

render kit 13 of 14

Rafters up

render kit 13 of 14idea_077

The notes

rendered

Build stages · view 13 of 14 · for ChatGPT image generation, in landscape format.

Attach model-frame.jpg (shape reference), the screenshot from the model's From the yard view with Show rafters on. It was retaken from the model on this page, which also shows the concrete pads under the deck and the roof window where it now sits. 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 OSB walls, the deck on its pads, the rafters on both wings meeting in a valley, the scaffolding and the materials waiting under tarpaulins all landed. Two things drifted: there are no knee walls, so the rafters sit straight on the upper deck, and the second wing's gable sits almost flush with the main wing instead of 3.6 m in front of it.

prompt

Turn the attached 3D model image into a photorealistic photograph of the house under construction. Keep the exact L-shaped plan, proportions, camera angle and roof shape from the attached image. The image shows the frame with see-through walls; in the photograph the walls are solid.

Setting: a dry, bright day in late spring in a flat walled paddock in a Peak District valley, dry stone walls, gritstone edges beyond.

- The plan is an L: a main wing about 9 metres long and a second wing projecting about 3.6 metres towards the camera from its right-hand end, both about 5.4 metres wide. Keep both wings.
- The ground floor walls are timber stud frame sheathed in pale OSB boards, with window openings cut but no windows yet. Above the upper floor deck there are only low knee walls, about 1 metre high, so the eaves sit low and the rafters spring almost straight from the top of the ground floor walls. This is a one-and-a-half storey house, not two full storeys.
- All the pairs of roof rafters are up in pale new timber: steep 45 degree roofs on both wings with the same ridge height, meeting in a valley, with a ridge board along each top.
- No roofing, no chimney and no flue yet.
- Simple tube scaffolding with timber boards runs round the house at eaves level, with a ladder.
- Stacks of roofing battens, rolls of breather membrane and pallets of slates waiting on the ground, under tarpaulins.

Style: realistic documentary photograph of a self-build site, natural colours, crisp detail, tidy and well organised. Avoid: big building company site, cranes, heavy machinery, people, text.

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The shell going up on a bright late-spring day, from the yard side to the south-west. The ground floor walls of both wings stand in timber stud frame sheathed in pale OSB, with window and door openings cut but empty, on a deck over small concrete pads. The upper floor deck is down, and pairs of new timber rafters on both wings rise to one ridge height and meet in a valley. Tube scaffolding with timber boards and a ladder runs round at deck level. Pallets of slates, rolls of breather membrane, a stack of battens and two loads under green tarpaulins wait on the grass, with flags laid where the yard will be, and dry stone walls, a big tree and limestone edges beyond. Off brief: there are no knee walls, so the rafters sit straight on the upper deck, and the second wing's gable sits almost flush with the main wing instead of 3.6 m in front of it.
01 · The shell going up on a bright late-spring day
Screenshot of this idea's 3D model from the yard, to the south-west, with Show rafters on, in flat colours on a pale green ground. The walls and roof are see-through: the pale timber rafters at 600 mm on both wings, the two ridge boards, the posts, the translucent upper floor deck with the stair hole, and the concrete pads under the deck. The flue and the roof window, the yard with its table and raised beds, the log stack, dry stone walls and trees. The shape reference for the frame stage.
02 · Screenshot of this idea's 3D model from the yard