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Sun angle problem with 360 cloud rendering

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 23:58:09 GMT

Is there any way to adjust the sun angle in the 360 panorama renderings and also the plan view rendering for the web viewer? Is there a setting I am missing in the desktop application before syncing with 360?

The renderings look outstanding except for the fact that the sun conditions are inaccurate.

see screenshot for what i mean, as you can see the shadows are pointing south as if the sun is in the northeast, but this would never happen in real life.

Thanks!

Re: Sun angle problem with 360 cloud rendering

Karsten.Saenger — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 08:40:31 GMT

Hello Frank,

you can adjust settings for time and day in the model:

But these settings are not supported in the pre-rendered panaorama, see

About Viewing Models in a Browser

Viewing a Model in a Browser Compared to Viewing it in InfraWorks 360:

The following kinds of data, features, or settings, which might be used in a model, are not supported when displaying the model's pre-rendered version in a web browser:

Point clouds
Shadows, sun and sky settings
Animated 3D models or simulations
Terrain or feature themes

Regards,

Karsten.

Re: Sun angle problem with 360 cloud rendering

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:11:54 GMT

thanks, will future releases address this oversight? it seems like even if you can't adjust the prerendered sun, that it should at least have a geographically accurate location based on the project location.

Re: Sun angle problem with 360 cloud rendering

markus_briglmeir — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:01:16 GMT

Hi Frank,

Good point, and Karsten is right. Sun settings are not published through InfraWorks 360 web viewer from InfraWorks 360 desktop. InfraWorks 360 web viewer uses RaaS (Render as a Service) based on rendering.360.autodesk.com with it's standard settings. No way to influence these for InfraWorks 360 web viewer and at the moment no plan to change that.

Best regards,

Markus

Re: Sun angle problem with 360 cloud rendering

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:07:09 GMT

thanks, i think my workaround may be just to manually rotate the features within the infraworks model before syncing with the cloud. Not the ideal solution but fine for now I think. The web viewer is overall a terrific presentation tool, we just want it to have real world lighting conditions.

ok thanks for the help!

Re: Sun angle problem with 360 cloud rendering

mblanken — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:12:53 GMT

I'm working on a project where I want to cast shadows from a set location. In a previous version I was trained on, we were able to change the light source location. Is this possible in Infraworks 360?