Hello,
I want to have specific sun setting for each detail viewports on one A3 page. Is it possible ?
Because if I use just one sun setting, i have shadows in one of my elevation.
this could be very useful as well as showing different shadows throughout the day/season.
you can only do it creating bitmaps from viewport and combine those in the layout, which is lame. other pressing problem is inability to save display modes in the file which creates problems when opening files on different pcs.
Could also be useful if you have multiple elevations where you want the 45° shadows.
Yes could be very useful. Thanks for answers
Hi, I don’t think you can currently do this using Rhino Sun system, but it is possible with a different method. You basically have to use Directional Lights instead of the Sun (which is pretty much a directional light hooked up to a smart sun system).
For that, you will need to put each Directional Light on its own layer, and then control these layers visibility per-detail, making sure the Rendering setting: “Use lights on Layers that are off” is disabled.
Take a look at this setup: I gathered sun layers in the SUNS folder - they all have to be ON in the Layer panel, but on/off as needed per-detail. You can easily turn all of them off by turning off the SUNS folder.
Now, how to convert your Sun into a Directional Light object?
Here is a script to automate it:
DirectionalLightFromSun.rvb (675 Bytes)
(save on your HD, then to install, drag-and-drop the file into Rhino Viewport - from now on a new alias will be available: _DirectionalLightFromSun
hth,
–jarek
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Hello Jarek,
Yes its works thanks !
awesome. you can just check azimuth and vertical angle of the sun in the sun system and rotate your dir light accordingly. i am going to try it right away.