Okay. Welcome to the last chapter in out training video for the Virtual Decorator Master Upgrade. The last chapter of this video in my opinion is the most important chapter of the whole training process. I am so often amazed by the number of people that get to this chapter and had been struggling a little bit maybe with the concept of how the software is going to work and they see this chapter and the light bulb goes off, and they go, “Okay, I get how this works.”
The challenge for us in training software is, it is impossible for me to make this the first chapter because you need to go through the process of understanding how the rudimentary tools work before you can fully understand what I am about to demonstrate. What I am going to do is basically just go through a default with, you can get that by simple going “File, New”. This is the start up with. I am going to click on a foundation, pull off from the base and get rid of that. I do not want to be there but it does not matter if you leave it there.
What I am going to do is I am going to go through the process of very quickly reviewing the tools that we have built and then show you how incredibly powerful they are. Once you get that there is no right or wrong way to build anything in the virtual decorator. It is a visualization tool, not an engineering tool. Because it is a visualization tool, it means the best way to build things is the fastest, simplest, easiest way to build things not the right way to build things. So, what I mean by that, let us go to really simple, perhaps what we call the world’s most unattractive hymn. Basically, we go to our drawing tools. So, I drop down “Menu” to “Drawing Tools”, go to “Polygon Foundation Tools” and what I will do is I will trace out an L-shape on the ground here.
Now, this is exactly the same as tracing out technical set of plans, scanning them in, scaling them and tracing over the top of them. I basically traced over the top of my imaginary plans here, freehand and created an L-shape on the ground. Let us do that process very quickly again. Here is my Polygon Foundation Tool, traced out some sort of rudimentary shape on the ground here. So, here basically is an L-shape of the ground. Let us delete this one. Go back to this foundation and it is a foundation. Click on the “Wall Building Tool” then, and nominate the height and depth of the walls.
If I left them at 2400 by 200, it would produce a rudimentary set of perimeter walls. I then go to my “Building Tools” and this is my internal wall building structure. I can basically build any internal structures that I want from there. I can place separate floors and each room of the house, and I can place basically walls, or doors and windows into those rooms appropriate to where they should be. Then what I am going to do is click on the “Build Roof Base Tool”. I will leave the roof base height at 2400 which is the height of the walls. 300 millimeter overhang, 100 millimeter base, and then if I wanted to, I could actually use my “Auto-build Roof” to create hip roof on this house. But I am going to basically leave it as it stands here with a flat roof.
And the reason I am going to label it at this point is just up to that point in the software, you have learned almost everything that you could possibly even need to know to build almost anything you can with the software. Here is what I mean by that. If I wanted to build a driveway that extended away from this house, I would simply go to my “Drawing Tool” and draw a driveway using my “Shift” button down here using the “Foundation Tool”. Now, because it is a driveway, I am not going to actually have any walls, nor we are going to have any roof structure but I am just going to use the “Foundation Tool”.
If I wanted to build a tennis court, what I will do is that I will go to my “Foundation Tool”, I will drag out the size of the tennis court and lift the walls, but this time the walls need to be the appropriate height and the appropriate depth for tennis court. Let us make this three meters high and ten millimeters deep. So, using exactly the same tools I used to build my house, I now built my driveway and tennis court. And they do not actually look like a tennis court nor driveway yet because quite simply I have not applied my materials of construction. But I am gong to and they are going to come alive.
So, what I am going to do now is build a swimming pool. I will drag out the foundation for my swimming pool and this time what I am going to do is use my walls and create walls just 200 millimeters deep and 200 millimeters high and you can see, I created what appears to be the beginning, the foundation stand for a swimming pool. I will simply put a color and they will be a little bit more obvious. So, I am using exactly the same tools to create these different structures and creating a foundation and putting walls into place, however high, however deep they need to be. I am choosing, “Does this foundation have walls? Does this foundation have a roof?” and through the process of making this, asking these questions and doing yourself this commands, I am pretty much able to build anything I want.
For example, a kitchen bench. What I will do is that I will draw at an appropriate size in a space down here. You can say, we are not drawing house size foundation, now we are building the cute box in the kitchen bench. And when I go to my walls, I can choose walls of the appropriate size for kitchen cabinet. So, let us say 800 millimeters high, 200 millimeters deep, and you can see here is the cart for my kitchen bench. So, if I click on the base, the roof base this time goes on at 800 millimeters with just a five millimeter overhang and a 12 millimeter depth. So, I created a kitchen bench. And through this process of creating a foundation, putting walls into place and putting a roof onto a structure then you can build anything on the kitchen bench, to a five-storey commercial high rise building.
So, that is in my opinion, the great key to learning the Virtual Decorator software, understanding that all structures are built using a foundation, walls and a roof structure and then, what you will effectively created is a template, ready to be hallowed in, ready to have objects and materials placed into that template just as you would using the basic version of the Virtual Decorator software. So, thank you for taking the time to review this training material on the Virtual Decorator Master Upgrade.
My last comments would be just to remind you that learning a piece of software like the Virtual Decorator Master Upgrade is not something that is going to happen in just a few minutes or even just a few hours. At the point of purchase, and you would have been demonstrated two versions of the software, the first version of software is the template-driven system. The template-driven system is incredibly easy to use. You simply choose a template from a wide group of pre-build templates and then choose colors and materials to suit your hand design ideas. It takes ten minutes to learn to use. It is super easy.
The Master Upgrade, however, is a Professional Grade tool. It will take several days for someone consistently working on the software to unlock the secrets. Technically, the software is not difficult to use. The challenge is the abstract- nature of the tool where there is simply no right or wrong way to build anything and that the tool allows you to create a three-dimensional model of all sorts of different building projects from commercial to residential to industrial based on a series of different approaches. And the best way to learn the software is to simply get in there and have a play around it to understand that it is almost impossible to build something on a piece of software like the Virtual Decorator.
So, get in, enjoy, have some fun. If you got any questions about basic skills review, navigation, and how to move around, how to change colors, how to insert objects in the same place, be sure that you reviewed the basic training material that is also provided on your installation disk. Thank you for your time and I hope you enjoyed the Virtual Decorator software experience.
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