Sunlight Animation

bully712 · November 1st, 2007

I'm doing a sunlight shadow study for a city block. I got two questions:

1. Can you animate the sunlight system to go from 8am to 8 pm? When I go to the modify panel for the light, I don't see such option.

2. If I cannot animate the light, is there a way to change the time of day without having to create a new light everytime?

Thanks all

I'm using Viz 2008

kippu · November 1st, 2007

did you try out the daylight system?

Hobo Monstrocity · November 7th, 2007

Bully
The answer to both your questions is Yes.

1. to change or animate the settings of the sunlight system you must go to the motion panel. Here you can edit the times, dates etc. of the light. You can set keyframes at 8am, move the timeline on a few frames and set another keyframe for 8pm and the sunlight system will animate the light around your object in a semi accurate way. I say semi accurate because I don't know how accurate Autodesk's system is.

2. Yes, see above.

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bully712 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Age: 30 Posts: 251 Name: Marc Bulebush	Sunlight Animation I'm doing a sunlight shadow study for a city block. I got two questions: 1. Can you animate the sunlight system to go from 8am to 8 pm? When I go to the modify panel for the light, I don't see such option. 2. If I cannot animate the light, is there a way to change the time of day without having to create a new light everytime? Thanks all I'm using Viz 2008 __________________ wireboxdesign.com rendering the imaginative

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kippu Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: india Age: 32 Posts: 1,394 Name: maria prem	Re: Sunlight Animation did you try out the daylight system? __________________ architecture visualization services www.renderviz.com

November 7th, 2007	#3 (permalink)
Hobo Monstrocity Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Dublin Age: 37 Posts: 85 Name: Conor Clancy	Re: Sunlight Animation Bully The answer to both your questions is Yes. 1. to change or animate the settings of the sunlight system you must go to the motion panel. Here you can edit the times, dates etc. of the light. You can set keyframes at 8am, move the timeline on a few frames and set another keyframe for 8pm and the sunlight system will animate the light around your object in a semi accurate way. I say semi accurate because I don't know how accurate Autodesk's system is. 2. Yes, see above.

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