Pick the look
Open the Light door and choose a film look — golden for the evening shot, overcast for the honest one.
Builder feature · free · in your browser
Cinematic Renders of Your House —11-Pass Post Stack
Every frame of Builder runs through an eleven-pass post stack: GTAO, god rays, anamorphic streaks, HDR bloom, motion blur, hexagonal depth-of-field with autofocus, ACES tone mapping, a 3D LUT film grade, a halation-vignette-grain-chromatic-aberration-sharpening pass, and SMAA — with screen-space reflections on the glazing. Seven film looks — natural, cinematic, golden, overcast, dusk, bleach and neutral — are saved with the design. Four quality tiers scale it from a laptop to 2× supersampled ultra, and the whole thing holds 60 FPS.
How it works — in the app
Set the tier
Low, medium, high, or ultra at 2× supersampling.
Find the shot
Press Space and play the day until the light is the one you want.
Share it
Walk the camera through, then send the link — the grade travels with the design.
What you get
Cinematic renders is one of fifteen feature pages covering what ships in Builder today — every claim here maps to a shipped, verified feature. The list below is the concrete surface:
- 11 passes: GTAO, god rays, anamorphic streaks, HDR bloom, motion blur, hexagonal depth-of-field with autofocus, ACES tone mapping, 3D LUT film grade, halation/vignette/grain/chromatic aberration/sharpening, SMAA
- Screen-space reflections on glazing
- 7 film looks — natural, cinematic, golden, overcast, dusk, bleach, neutral — saved with the design
- 4 quality tiers, low to ultra (2× supersampled)
- 4,096² PCF-soft shadow map fitted to the site — about 2 cm per texel over a 45 m radius
- Performance gate: 60 FPS, under 300 draw calls, under 250 MB heap — measured at 286 draws / 60 fps / 28 MB on Apple M4 with the full stack
FAQ
Is this real-time rendering or an export?
Real time, all of it. The eleven-pass stack runs in the browser at the frame rate the performance gate guarantees: 60 FPS under a stress design with the full stack on medium. There is no offline farm and no export wait.
Will it run on my machine?
Pick the tier that matches it. Low and medium suit most laptops; high and ultra (2× supersampled) reward good GPUs. The gate is measured on Apple M4 at 286 draw calls, 60 fps and a 28 MB heap — with all eleven passes and a full stress design.
What is the difference between the film looks?
Seven grades over the same honest light: natural for accuracy, cinematic for contrast, golden for the late-afternoon sell, overcast for a neutral survey, dusk for the blue hour, bleach for a washed editorial look, and neutral when you want nothing added. Whichever you pick is saved with the design.
More Builder features
Keep reading the tour, or jump back to the Explore hub for all fifteen.
Study the real sunPick a place, a date and an hour — Builder computes real solar positions with the Meeus series (about 0.01°)…Open the feature →
Materials & finishesApply any of 64 procedural PBR swatches — clinker brick, standing-seam metal, clay tiles, herringbone paving…Open the feature →
Walk through itStep inside your 3D house design: WASD to walk, Shift to run, E opens the door in front of you, V for third…Open the feature →
Open the designer and grade your house like a film — the render engine is the app.
No install, no plugin — a house builds itself the moment the page opens.