by ArchPrime » Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:47 am
ArchPrime
Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:47 am
Hi - but I don't want hdri - I just wanted a plain blue colour.
But following my workaround , the exact same settings now do give a blue sky.
A possibly separate issue, but I note that when viewed through coloured glass, the blue sky turns black again - for the portions with the glass in front of it
** Edit ** looks like alpha=on in Kernel was preventing plain coloured sky from working too, as switching it off and on then off again made the sky appear in both saved views.
Is there a way to have a sky rendered as part of the image and also to have alpha channel on? not sure why I would want to - but I thought alpha related to textures, not plain coloured skys?. if alpha channel is something that prevents operation of the Environment settings for plain sky, should there be some kind of explicit interaction with the sky parameters in the UI - so if alpha channel is on, sky settings are greyed out or similar ?
I note switching alpha shadows off or on seems to make no visible difference to anything. Presume there must some separate setting somewhere this parameter interacts with too?
And yes, the sky disappearing when behind coloured glass was solved by switching alpha channel off. Strange that blue sky was visible beside the coloured glass and through clear glass when alpha was on though (but only after workaround view swap trick) .. seems inconsistent somehow
Also, sunlight coming through coloured glass is not casting coloured light on the floor as it should - is this a clue about glass materials properties being wrong in some way?
One for the suggestion box: maybe a help button beside each parameter, linking to specific paragraphs and diagrams showing what that parameter does, and what it's dependencies are ? Obviously the PDF manual is a couple of versions behind and an update to this with all the latest features/parameters and working methodology suggestions for achieving common tasks would be great (perhaps culled from Paul's FAQ from time to time), but even better would be context specific help. The average ArchiCAD user (who might do a rendering once every several months) won't want to look much farther or harder for info on the octane plugin than they do for the documentation that comes with the rest of ArchiCAD's plugins
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