The directional light created by the system is managed by two special controllers: Solar Date and Solar Time. The default location is San Francisco, CA. The default time is noon, and the default date and time zone are based on your computer's local settings. These lists also offer you the options of choosing no sunlight or no skylight.Ĭontrols for the geographic location and time of day are on the Motion panel. The Skylight drop-down list lets you choose IES Sky, or Skylight. The Sunlight drop-down list lets you choose IES Sun, or Standard (directional). If you created a Daylight system, the Daylight Parameters rollout on the Modify panel lets you choose the type of sunlight and skylight.

The light itself, which is a child of the compass rose, and is permanently targeted on the center of the compass rose.

Upon creation you have two objects in your scene:Ĭompass rose, which is a helper object that provides the world direction for your sun. This can be any distance you find convenient, since directional and IES Sun lights produce parallel illumination regardless of where their icon is located. Orbital scale of the sun light over the compass rose.

Drag to create the radius of a compass rose (the radius is for display purposes only), and then release the mouse button and move the mouse to set the.

This should be a Top or Perspective/Camera view.

Choose a viewport in which to create a compass rose (the compass direction of your 'world').

It is appropriate to use them if your scene uses standard lighting (Sunlight with its Directional light works for this, too), or if you are using

The Standard light and Skylight are not photometric.

It is appropriate to use them if you are creating a rendering that uses

The IES Sun and IES Sky lights are photometric lights.

Sunlight and Daylight have a similar user interface.

Alt menu: Objects menu > Lights > Daylight System.

Default menu: Create menu > Systems > Daylight System.

Default menu: Create menu > Lights > Daylight System.

Create panel > (Systems) > Object Type rollout > Click the Sunlight button or the Daylight button.

In addition, you can animate Latitude, Longitude, North Direction, and Orbital Scale.

This system is suitable for shadow studies of proposed and existing structures.

You can choose location, date, time, and compass orientation. The Sunlight and Daylight systems use light in a system that follows the geographically correct angle and movement of the sun over the earth at a given location.

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