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From the valley at night
Night, view 10. Attach the model screenshot, then paste the prompt.
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render kit 10 of 13From the valley at night
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renderedNight · view 10 of 13 · rendered with ChatGPT image generation.
Attach model-night-valley.jpg (shape reference). The first image here is the result.
Open a fresh ChatGPT chat for each view, so it does not borrow from the last image. Attach only the one reference image named, then paste the prompt and ask for landscape format. If a render drifts, send it back with a short edit: "Keep everything the same except ...".
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Turn the attached 3D model image into a photorealistic night-time architectural photograph. Keep the exact shape, proportions, camera angle and position of every element from the attached image. Only change the materials, lighting and surroundings as described below.
Setting: high summer, blue hour just after sunset. Deep blue sky with the first stars and a faint glow on the horizon. Camera low in the meadow south of the house, 35mm lens.
Shape rules (do not change these from the image): the house is one continuous curved shell, almost square in plan, about 28 metres long and 27 metres deep, broad and low. The sides rise almost vertically from a stone base and bend smoothly into the roof in one unbroken curve, with no eaves, no gutters and no corner between wall and roof. The roof dips gently in the middle and lifts towards each end, with only a slight overhang at the ends. The end walls are wide, low arches of stone, not towers.
Materials and light:
- The lower curved sides in vertical untreated larch and the upper part of the shell in weathered copper, both just visible in the dusk, catching a little of the sky.
- The long ground floor window band and the shorter upper band glow warm amber from inside, set in deep oak frames, with glimpses of lamps, wool and walnut inside.
- The games room opening in the dark gritstone plinth glows softly, with a few lanterns on the small terrace in front.
- From the glass roof in the middle of the shell, a soft warm glow rises from the lit garden below.
- Copper rain chains catch the window light.
- The car barn behind on the right: a faint warm band of light under its eaves.
Surroundings: the wildflower meadow in deep shadow with flowers just catching the window light in the foreground, dry stone walls, dark silhouettes of oaks, dark hills.
Style: calm, realistic night architectural photography, gentle light, no floodlighting. Avoid: changing the shape, floodlights, uplighters on the facade, light pollution, neon, overexposed windows, changing the shape, long narrow building, upright walls with a separate roof on top, roof curling at the ends, stone towers, eaves, gutters, barn conversion look, stadium, white render, people, text.
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