Hello all! This is a sorta long post, but I'd REALLY appreciate any help the group might be able to offer.
I'd like to see if I can get some input from the group on a VIZ4 lighting study animation.
I'm using both sunlight and fixed lighting (about 200 various fixed and spot lights) for a commercial retail exterior model. The sunlight is animated from dawn to dusk, with the lights being the primary lighting at dusk.
I'm not up for selecting every light (~200 of them) and turning each of them on at about the start of dusk in the animation, but I can't seem to find a way to turn them all off at once. I thought I would try grouping them and doing a visibility track, but that didn't work when I rendered it. What's the trick to turning multiple lights on and off in the track with just a few clicks, rather than probably an hour's worth of time activating each one individually?
Also, how do I coordinate the background color with the real-world color of the sky in relation to the time of day? Is there a setting that changes the background color in relation to the sunlight position/time of day?
One final question - I've set the animation to render using radiosity, and to calculate radiosity when required, with automatic exposure control (which looks great when I manually activate radiosity for various frames and render the image), but when I do a full frame-by-frame final redering to individual files, and then walk away for day or two, it doesn't seem like it's re-calculating the radiosity solution.
Am I missing something? Once again, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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