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Create an Architectural Context Render

Place a building render or model image into a street photo to show how a proposed building will look in its actual setting.

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Planning applications, investor pitches, and design presentations regularly require a photomontage showing the proposed building in its real street context. This traditionally requires a specialist architectural visualisation studio and takes weeks to produce — an expensive and slow step that often delays the planning process.

Scene Compositor composites a building render or 3D model image into a real street photo with matching perspective, lighting, and shadow. The result is a credible photomontage showing the proposed development in context, legible to planning officers, investors, and local stakeholders alike.

Architects use this to produce planning application montages quickly, developers use it for investor presentations, and planning consultants use it to illustrate pre-application representations before committing to a full CGI commission.

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Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter to Claude: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Share the building render and the street photo, and describe the intended placement.
  3. Ask Claude to run `place_object` via the scene-compositor tool.
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ChatGPT

  1. Add ToolRouter to ChatGPT using the MCP JSON configuration: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
  2. Provide the building render, the street photo, and the planning or pitch context.
  3. Run `place_object` via scene-compositor to generate the context montage.
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Copilot

  1. Add ToolRouter to your Copilot MCP configuration: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
  2. Provide the building render, the street photo, and the document to update.
  3. Run `place_object` via scene-compositor to generate the montage.
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter to OpenClaw: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Build your input list — one building render and street photo pair per viewpoint.
  3. Run `place_object` via scene-compositor across all viewpoint combinations.
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