Daylight System: Where is north?

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Chris_TC
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We may use Octane for visualization, but we need the lighting to be geographically accurate. What is Octane's north direction?

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Chris_TC wrote:We may use Octane for visualization, but we need the lighting to be geographically accurate. What is Octane's north direction?

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Z+ should be (if north offset is zero)

a little test... this photo taken from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial#Ho ... l_sundials):
800px-Garden_sundial_MN_2007.JPG
and "rebuilt" in octane (using date, time and coordinates of the original photo):
sundir.jpg
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Thanks, very usefull !
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Thank you! That's super useful indeed.
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