Getting the current time/date/location for shadows

Wokka — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:04:10 GMT

Hi,
I'm trying to create a small 3D text object that will give the current models time/date/location for use on shadow diagrams. I'm hoping to just have it face the camera so it acts like a stamp to the image.
Basically it's a attempt to emulate the information you get when you create a sun study that you save as a quicktime movie. If you do this, Archicad (or quicktime) places a small stamp on the top left of the image giving the important data. Unfortunately I can't find any other format that produces this information, and naturally we need to create hundreds of images (NOT a movie) showing the exact time and date for council submissions. I know I could extract the individual images from the QT movie, but I can't see any ability to alter the text size,colour position etc, and it is quiet small and difficult to see.
Any help would be greatly appresciated.
Cheers

Re: Getting the current time/date/location for shadows

Frank Beister — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:52:18 GMT

Have a look on The Ant..
Unfortunatly it is written in German.

It displays head mounted the frame number on each picture of your movie. The second object you can download from this site is "Big Brother". It works similar, but has a smaller script.

This could be a base object for you to add parameters of start and end of the animation sequence, which is necessary to calculate (date and) the time of each frame.

Both objects need to rebuilt the 3D model for each frame! A night job if you have to render a large model.

The time is AFAIK not requestable directly.

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Getting the current time/date/location for shadows

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