What is the proper lighting setting for a night rendering? I watched a tutorial and it said to use "artificial," however once you do that, it disables "cast shadows" with no way to enable them. Is that just the way it is?
Trying this in my project and also in the vanilla template with the same result. No, it's not a view template. As soon as you switch from sunlight to artificial it disables the shadows.
I am using RevitLT 2024, unfortunately. I think it just can't do this. Prior to rethinking my subscription, does the full version of Revit allow artificial lights to cast shadows?
I would like the artificial light to make the columns cast a shadow on the ground. I don't think that is possible to do. If I switch to a shaded view (from realistic), the artificial light just shuts off (even though the view is still set to sun and artificial). I'm trying the following without success. Maybe there is a toggle somewhere overriding the lighting settings?:
1) with lighting set to artificial only, it won't cast shadows. Per the image above the columns do not cast any shadows.
2) with lighting set to sun and artificial, a still setting of 3am in Boston MA, the sun does not turn off or go dark. It's as bright as day. Do I have to adjust a slider somewhere to make it darker? I'm confused why if the sun is set to 3am that would not make the rendering any darker.
These settings aren't intuitive (to me anyway). Why is the sun still shining at 3 am?
Try checking off this if you have floor object below. If you click this on, the shadow will appear at this level.
How is the natural light penetrating the room? Did you remove walls or something?
Here's no walls with your settings:
...and light intensity bumped up A LOT. Electric bill will surely bankrupt homeowner. Make sure you get paid before they move in. 😉
