An old adage

[fuzzytnth3]

They used to say when taking photos "Always have the sun at your bacK" and so it would seem when using ArchiCAD's Lightworks rendering engine.

What I have found while trying to work on quite a large model is that the camera light is contradicting the shadows from the "real" sun position.
So you would think the solution would be to just switch off the camera light. Trouble is that the resulting image is dull as ditch water.

I have tried this on the example house project that comes with AC9 and it doesn't exhibit this problem nearly as much. As far as I can tell it does seem to be related to size/length of the project. Small good big bad.

Below I will post some of the resulting images I have made.

[Anonymous]

ejrolon wrote:
I know that you are trying to get lightworks to work but there is an OS X only program that does radiosity and uses HDRI maps besides being a modeler. ----. I am working with it right now to find it's limits.
Cheetah3D

Limits, file size and complexity. Anything big enough to be called a project, crashes. This Cheeta is actually a dog.

This simple version of C4D would be a better choice. $99
http://www.maxonshop.com/cgi-bin/us/gp?pg=products/cinema4d.ce

[Eduardo Rolon]

AFAIK C4 light does not have the advanced renderer, so no HDRI or Radiosity