Best practices for creating exceptional architectural renders with MyArchitectAI

This quick guide will equip you with everything you need to know to get the most out of MyArchitectAI.

• What MyArchitectAI can and can't do
• Image upload
• Engines
  • Render
  • Style transfer
  • Enhance
• Prompting best practices
• Editing renders

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What MyArchitectAI can and can't do

First of all, MyArchitectAI is made to visualize architectural and interior designs. It can render:

• Designs from any CAD software (see requirements in the next section)
• Hand-drawn sketches and line drawings

Here's what it can't do (at least for now):

• Render floor plans
• Render designs from PDF files
• Virtual staging

Image upload

MyArchitectAI currently accepts .jpg, .jpeg, .png, and .webp file formats.

You can upload an interior or exterior CAD design export, sketch, or even a render you'd like to improve.

To ensure the best results, you should remove any objects or shapes that you don’t want to see in your rendering. This is because our AI engine detects lines and shapes so e.g. dimension lines could be interpreted as lamp posts.

Once your input image is ready, upload it in the app, and let’s start creating.

Engines

MyArchitectAI has 3 rendering engines: Render, Style transfer, and Enhance.

Each of them keeps the geometry of your model unchanged but have different purposes.

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Render

This is our most versatile engine, optimized for visualizing both CAD designs and hand-drawn sketches.

It preserves colors, materials, and textures from your uploads, while also letting you add landscapes, adjust lighting, and change the weather.

Some key things to keep in mind:

• This engine is optimized to work with textured designs without any prompts at all.
• You should only add a prompt when rendering sketches or changing the environmental context of the scene. In these cases, try to keep the prompt as concise as possible, as overly long ones might confuse the AI.
• To make changes to your designs, use the editing tools — the core rendering engine isn’t optimized for that.
• People and cars might get distorted sometimes, so adding them to the scene using the Edit by Prompt tool produces much better results.

Here are some examples of what you can use it for:

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Quick video overview of how it works:

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Style transfer

This engine is best suited for the early ideation stage of the project, and lets you create different style variations based on your reference image or style preset.

There are two modes:

1. Photorealistic

2. Conceptual

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Here's an overview of how the Style Transfer engine works:

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1. Photorealistic lets you upload a reference image, which MyArchitectAI will use as inspiration and blend with your design to generate a unique concept.

Start by uploading your reference image, or selecting one of the presets from the style library.

To control how much the reference image influences the generated design, use the "Style strength" slider. The higher the value, the more your render will look more like the reference image. Geometry will still be unchanged.

Leave the scene description field blank, and press the "Generate" button.

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2. Conceptual lets you instantly apply an artistic style of your choice to your image.

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There's no extra settings here - just select the style and press "Generate."

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Enhance

The enhance engine instantly improves image quality and resolution, making your renders sharper and more detailed.

Video overview:

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Use the creativity slider to control how much artistic freedom the AI has—higher values for more creative control, lower values for subtle refinements that stay true to your original render.

And if your 3D people look like they're straight out of a video game, the enhancer can help with that too.

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Prompting best practices

If you're not familiar with this concept, prompting is a method of communicating with AI applications by providing specific instructions on what you want to see in the output using text descriptions.

All our rendering engines are optimized to work without prompts, so using them is optional.

If you have any specific requirements, here are some best practices to follow.

First of all, MyArchitectAI is not a chat app (like ChatGPT for example), so instead of giving it instructions (create, make, render), just describe what you want your render to look like.

Second, try to keep the prompt as concise as possible, as overly long ones might confuse the AI.

To give you an idea of what good and bad prompts look like, let’s have a look at a couple of examples of both.

✅ Good prompt example: “unfenced contemporary detached home, gray facade, steel window shutters, round shrubs around the building, plain concrete driveway, countryside background, clear sky”
✅ Good prompt example: “mediterranean kitchen, granite countertop, black chairs, dark clay tile floor, natural lighting, garden view from the balcony door”
❌ Bad prompt example: “turn this sketchup model into a rendering”
❌ Bad prompt example: “make it more realistic”

As you can see, good prompts follow a structure: {subject}, {scene details}, {setting} where the different components are separated by commas.

What's important, the order of components matters - those that are at the front of the prompt have more impact on the rendering than those further back.

Here are some of the most impactful elements you can include in your prompts:

• The type of scene e.g. residential home, or kitchen (we recommend always including this)
• Style
• Materials
• Colors
• Lighting
• Landscape/background/setting
• Time of day
• Furniture/product brands
• Architect’s name (if you want MyArchitectAI to draw inspiration from their work)

Including more keywords in your prompt won’t necessarily produce better results though.

We recommend starting with one broad keyword describing the scene and style, e.g. "modern residential home".

Then, check how the app interprets different elements of the scene, and iterate from that by adding more specific keywords about different objects, e.g. "modern residential home, beige facade, sunrise".

It's worth generating a couple of renders for each of your prompt variations as MyArchitectAI will create different results each time. You can even leave your prompt unchanged and just click the "Generate" button to create a new variation using the same settings.

A couple of other things to keep in mind:

• To make changes to your designs, use the editing tools — our core rendering engines aren't optimized for that.
• There's no need to add keywords such as "realistic", "4k", "architectural/interior design" and others commonly used when prompting e.g. Midjourney. MyArchitectAI "knows" that you're rendering architectural or interior design and will make your renders realistic by default.
• At this point, MyArchitectAI works for architectural and interior designs. Rendering floorplans, masterplans, and landscape design is not supported yet.

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Editing renders

For tips on using the editing mode, check out this guide.

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So experiment with different settings and see what works best for your designs.

And if you have any feedback, let us know in the live chat how we can make MyArchitectAI better for you.

Start creating

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