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How to adjust shadow brightness in Sections / Elevations when using "Own Surface Colors (Shaded)"

Anonymous
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How can I adjust the brightness of the shadow being cast by objects in my Section when it is using the "shaded" option? When I use "Own Surface Colour (Non-shaded)" it seems to give me an option of changing the Shadow polygons
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The color of the shadow is linked to a hatch and a hatch pen, just edit them
Christophe - FRANCE
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Anonymous
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Sorry not following, can you post a screenshot please?


It deals with a french version... Sorry about this
Christophe - FRANCE
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Anonymous
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Yes adjusting the hatch is available for "non-shaded", my query was how to adjust when using "shaded"
Can you illustrate you request ?
What's your graphics aim precisely ?
Why my screen capture do not satisfy yourself (expect the choice of hatch and color of hatch of course) ?
Christophe - FRANCE
Archicad Designer and Teacher
Archicad 15 to 27 FRA FULL

OS 11.6 Big Sur - MacBook Pro 2017 - 16Go RAM
"Quality is never an accident ; it's always the result of an intelligent effort" John Ruskin
Anonymous
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I have the same question. I am aware there is a way to edit the fill of the shadow with the elevation set to "Own Surface Colors (Non-shaded)". But is there a way to adjust the shadows fill when your elevation is set to "Own Surface Colors (Shaded)"? Or am I misunderstanding this setting? Thanks.
By using "Own Surface Colors (Shaded)" I think you don't
Christophe - FRANCE
Archicad Designer and Teacher
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OS 11.6 Big Sur - MacBook Pro 2017 - 16Go RAM
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Anonymous
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What I'd like to do is adjust the darkness of the fill when using "shaded"

See examples 1 and 2. With example 1 (non-shaded), you can adjust the shadow fill, say I can set it to various fills

With example 2 (shaded), this setting does not appear. You can only show shadows ON and OFF - no editing of the shadow fills.

What's the reason behind in Example 2 you cannot edit the shadow fills?
Lingwisyer
Guru
benjamin_chan wrote:
What's the reason behind in Example 2 you cannot edit the shadow fills?

My guess would be that Shaded is not generated using the vectorial engine hence the lack of fill options.



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