note to self (and other interested parties)

[__archiben]

when saving objects made with archiCAD from the 3D window, ensure that the sun and/or sky objects are not included in the marquee around the elements required for the object.

two days of censored around trying to find where all that censored light is coming from is not a clever use of time . . .

~/archiben

[Ben Odonnell]

Thanks for the heads up mate.
I can understand that it was frustrating for you, as you don't get any indication what so ever in 2D or 3D, except when rendering it or looking in the 3D script of the object.

I would of thought that if theý were included in the object, that the 2D symbol would reflect that some other elements we included in the selection/marque, e.g hotspots much further away from the corners of the object than usual.

Cheers.
Ben

[__archiben]

Ben wrote:
I would of thought that if theý were included in the object, that the 2D symbol would reflect that some other elements we included in the selection/marque, e.g hotspots much further away from the corners of the object than usual.

you'd have thought, eh? having exhausted everything else i could think of, it was only after faithfully reconstructing the project in a new & reset file element by element and photorendering after each copy/paste that i found the trouble. whilst george lucas might've been pleased with twenty suns orbiting my archiPLANET, i was not.

laters
~/archiben

[Dwight]

When you save objects from the 3D window as Library elements, ArchiCAD generates the symbol from what it can see that is solid. Unlike light sources, that aren't.

[Anonymous]

I did the same *#%@ing thing but to a newsagency unit. i the end i had a blinding white light.... I didn't lose the too long a time though... I rang tech support but they couldn't help.. so i decided to look at the script.. behold!!!