Emission Property export to BIMx?

[derekjackson]

Hi,
I was under the impression that the BIMx environment replicates the OpenGL view in the 3D Window?

I have some 'lights' in my scene - slabs with a white emissive surface applied so that they look like they're glowing. They export as grey to BIMx - is there no way to increase the brightness of a surface in BIMx?

Thanks,

Derek

(AC17)

[derekjackson]

Anyone?

[Erwin Edel]

BIMx is not the same OpenGL engine as in ArchiCAD in terms of how things look (brightness, colour etc), that I've noticed.

Try calculating Global Illumination to light up surfaces a bit.

[Anonymous]

Erwin wrote:
BIMx is not the same OpenGL engine

If it is not, it is very close in terms of textures and model in general. If setup properly, BIMx model looks virtually identical to OpenGL view in ArchiCAD.

Emissive surfaces and lights, though, are another story.

At present, BIMx does not support any light sources (short of sun and, then, only on desktops). Global illumination does create a shaded model with some representation of light (general, nondescript fill lighting with volume shadows) and makes any model noticeably better looking, but no light sources, emissive surfaces or any other type of lighting yet.