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Garden.dwg (367KB) - AutoCAD 2000 Drawing File

#Daylight shadows in cheetah 3d zip file

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There are two download options, you can either download the drawing file or you can download the smaller compressed file. Click on the icon below to download the AutoCAD drawing file Garden.dwg. Alternatively, you can download the file shown in the images above. You can use any 3D drawing to follow this tutorial providing that you have drawn a ground plane on which the shadows can be projected. Set the "Rendering Type" to Photo Raytrace and click the checkbox to turn "Shadows" on.

Render the Scene using the Render command, View Render Render… from the pull-down menu.

Click the Geographic Location… button in the Sun Angle Calculator dialogue box.

Set the Location from the Sun Angle Calculator dialogue box.

Click the Sun Angle Calculator… button in the New Distant Light dialogue box.

Set the Time using the Sun Angle Calculator.

Click the checkbox to turn "Ray Traced Shadows" on. Click the checkbox to turn shadows on and then click the Shadow Options… button.

Name the light and set Shadow Type to "Raytraced" in the New Distant Light dialogue box.

Set the light type to "Distant Light" and click the New… button.

Create a Distant Light using the Light command, View Render Light… from the pull-down menu.

Start by downloading the Sample Data or go straight to Getting Started.

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If you have never worked with lights before or have never used the renderer, I suggest you follow the full tutorial. If you are familiar with AutoCAD, you may be able to create sunlight by following the Fast Track steps below. This tutorial will take you, step-by-step through the process of creating sunlight, modifying it and making the necessary shadow and render settings.Īdding sunlight and rendering a drawing is essentially a 5 step process. This is all possible without needing to know the first thing about solar geometry! The three sunlight images on the left show the light and shadow effects on a garden at different times of the day on the 25th June in London. Also, because the renderer can create accurate shadows based upon your parameters, you could even use these techniques to create a shadow analysis. This is much easier than it sounds and AutoCAD has some very user-friendly tools to help.Īs you can see from figures 2, 3 and 4, not only can you simulate sunlight but you can control the time of day, the day of the year and the geographic location. In order to add some sunlight to our scene, we will need to add a light that simulates the sun AutoCAD calls this type of light a "Distant Light". Although this effect enables you to clearly see your model, it is far from realistic. In figure 1, you can see that the vertical faces of the hedge, facing the viewer are bright, whereas the ground plane is quite dark. The effect is similar to what you would see if the light source was placed at the camera position perpendicular faces would reflect more light and faces further from the perpendicular would reflect less light. Faces that are perpendicular or near perpendicular to the line of sight are displayed brighter and faces further from the perpendicular are shown darker. AutoCAD calculates the lighting in a scene where there are no lights by determining the the angle of incidence between the object faces and the line of sight. As you can see, the results are rather uninspiring and there are no shadows. Figure number 1 on the left shows the effect of rendering without lights. AutoCAD has some very powerful and useful features for accurately creating sunlight effects.Īs you may have realised by now, you don't need lights in a scene in order to render a model. One of the most common requirements is to add sunlight to your drawing. Once you start working with solid models and rendering them, you will want to add lighting effects to your model.