Sun angle problem with 360 cloud rendering

[Anonymous]

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!

[Karsten.Saenger]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[markus_briglmeir · Accepted solution]

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

[Anonymous]

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!

[mblanken]

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?