X5 Vs Thea...

[Chiefer]

Jintu: How did you get the backlight from the outside to do that? Did you place a light outside??

I only used the sun, rotated at 260 degrees.

[marty]

Hey Jintu I did not know about that default sun setting - we have been asking for a while to be able to set the sun independently of true North. Is it one of those hidden gems slipped into X5 or has it been there in previous versions?

I had a quick try on a job and the attached pic took 10 minutes - it is still not 100% but definitely an improvement.

[HumbleChief]

Marty, That setting was there in X4 as well. Jintu turned me on to it and now I don't mess with North arrows and CAD sun angles - just change those setting and away you go. There's a pretty complete help file on the settings and which way to move them (increase/decrease) to change the angle for the direction of your property.

[Chiefer]

Very nice! Impressive.

The default sun setting has always been that way since I first use Chief. that was V10. It is much easier to adjust the sun using the lit bulb icon in render view than in the cad tools.

[dgavin]

Question:

With the north pointer and sun angle from CAD in the plan which settings dominate, those or the ones in the RT dbx? Each have settings for color and intensity.

[kirk.clemons]

Some of the "leaking" has been tied to rooms that don't have a roof. In many cases just generating a quick roof prevents this.

[HumbleChief]

Some of the "leaking" has been tied to rooms that don't have a roof. In many cases just generating a quick roof prevents this.

Great tip, thanks

[Chad Cardin]

Some of the "leaking" has been tied to rooms that don't have a roof. In many cases just generating a quick roof prevents this.

Kirk, on all the models shown, I had a roof on it? The only way to get it to stop leaking was to make it zero like Jintu suggested. Is there another way to stop it besides turning down the sun to zero and having a roof?

[Chiefer]

Question:

With the north pointer and sun angle from CAD in the plan which settings dominate, those or the ones in the RT dbx? Each have settings for color and intensity.

Let me find out.

[Chiefer]

Sun settings from Cad tools dominate. (night or day)

[dgavin]

Interesting. Thanks chief inspector!
Makes sense too.

[Gel Building]

You cannot be serious? lol
You cannot compare Thea with CA.
Ive looked at many of the render engines and so glad Pat suggested Thea.

All materials contain maps which give realism. Go to their site and see for yourself.
I think there menu is quite simple.

Here is one of my first renders.

[Chiefer]

You cannot be serious? lol
You cannot compare Thea with CA.
Ive looked at many of the render engines and so glad Pat suggested Thea.

All materials contain maps which give realism. Go to their site and see for yourself.
I think there menu is quite simple.

Here is one of my first renders.

Is that your Thea? lol too

[Chad Cardin]

Jintu,

I am starting my first exterior raytrace. I went through the beginning process but decided to launch the raytrace wizard just to see what it would look like because I couldnt find all the selections described above.

Could you do another demonstration like you did earlier for the interior raytrace and show the arrows of what to avoid and what to select to begin an exterior raytrace? I know you mentioned sun angles but where are you suppose to put these degrees in for raytraces? I didnt see those on the raytrace choices? Clearly Im out in the woods!

[Chad Cardin]

Jintu,

Ive been tinkering around with the sun angles and plugging in the time zone etc but for some reason when I do final views with shadows and click adjust lights the default sunlight specification wont show up. How can I get that dialogue box up so I can adjust it to the recommended 260 angle you prescribed above?