Finally, success with Marble

After burning through a lot of time and credits, I finally found success with Marble. Here are some of the 'rules' I discovered, at least for my project. Of course, others may have different experiences.

1) Use only one basis image. I created a room in iClone and first tried positioning the camera for four shots: Front, Back, Left, Right. I gave those to Marble and got unwanted multiple additional rooms off of the main room. Marble allows up to 8 files, so I positioned the camera in 8 equally spaced (angular) views and gave those to Marble. The result was total nonsense. The only way I got good results was with a single image.

2) If you have any objects that have a strict requirement for appearance put them in the single basis image. Use 'Advanced Editing' to later insert any additional object. It seems that when you let Marble place them it does a better job than if you try to place them yourself. Advanced editing adds to the cost but does a good job.

3) Place NOTHING in the center of the space. Every object must be against walls, around the perimeter. Any time I tried to put anything, even a simple table, away from the perimeter it got distorted.

4) Hang nothing from the ceiling. Their tech support admitted that this is buggy, and it sure is. I wanted a jewel to hang on a chain from the ceiling, but that was disaster. It broke up into random shards. But when instead I placed the same jewel on the table it was perfect.

5) If you need lots of objects, put their description and location in the prompt, and tweak with Advanced Editing.

If anyone has more suggestions, please post them. Thanks!

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