topic Shadows in 3D in Modeling

Shadows in 3D

Red — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:32:31 GMT

Is there a settings within Archicad to have full sun light without any shadows when using opengl for 3D??

Re: Shadows in 3D

Djordje — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:27:08 GMT

Red wrote:
Is there a settings within Archicad to have full sun light without any shadows when using opengl for 3D??

Switch the sun shadows off.

Re: Shadows in 3D

Ted Taylor — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:56:37 GMT

Red wrote:
Is there a settings within Archicad to have full sun light without any shadows when using opengl for 3D??

Did you mean shading? On my Mac, OpenGL doesn't cast shadows but does shade the sides away from the sun. I was having difficulty with the shaded sides being too dark until I figured out it could be controlled by adjusting the light parameters in the Sun Dialog box found under Image:3D Projection Settings...:More Sun button. Setting all of the parameters to 100% gives me no shading and all sides are equally lighted.

Re: Shadows in 3D

Erika Epstein — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 06:40:27 GMT

Ted,
That's an interesting workaround.
One of my wishes is that in the navigator to have a button that allows the sun to always be positioned behind the camera so when checking a model everthing is always lit.
Uncheck to render.

Re: Shadows in 3D

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:24:14 GMT

Erika wrote:
Ted,
That's an interesting workaround.
One of my wishes is that in the navigator to have a button that allows the sun to always be positioned behind the camera so when checking a model everthing is always lit.
Uncheck to render.

Good idea! It shouldn't be too hard to do as this feature already exists in the QTVR object rendering.

Re: Shadows in 3D

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:42:04 GMT

Erika wrote:
One of my wishes is that in the navigator to have a button that allows the sun to always be positioned behind the camera so when checking a model everthing is always lit.
Uncheck to render.

Great wish, Erika! I don't think this is on the wishlist yet? Please post over there if not. If I could suggest a minor variant: a button as well as an angle and azimuth setting so that the sun would follow the camera around at that position - which I usually prefer to be slightly to the left or right of dead-on.

Karl

Re: Shadows in 3D

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:17:28 GMT

Karl wrote:
Erika wrote:
One of my wishes is that in the navigator to have a button that allows the sun to always be positioned behind the camera so when checking a model everthing is always lit.
Uncheck to render.
Great wish, Erika! I don't think this is on the wishlist yet? Please post over there if not. If I could suggest a minor variant: a button as well as an angle and azimuth setting so that the sun would follow the camera around at that position - which I usually prefer to be slightly to the left or right of dead-on.

Karl

Karl,

This is what the QTVR setting does already. I would hope they would simply adapt the same function. Set the relative sun in the 3D settings dialog and check the "follow me around" option.