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Animating DayLight Environment

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:33 pm
by mikefrisk
I tried plugging in a scalar node to the suns hour input but it does nothing. I then tried setting it to direction and pluging in a vector, still nothing. I must be missing something but I can't think of what. Is it possible to animate the environment?

Re: Animating DayLight Environment

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:37 pm
by juanjgon
I am testing this feature here and all works fine. Can you share a sample scene with this problem?

-Juanjo

Re: Animating DayLight Environment

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:07 pm
by mikefrisk
Restarted and now its working, very strange. Thanks for taking the time to help me out.

Re: Animating DayLight Environment

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:19 pm
by mikefrisk
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It happened again. It seems to happen only after I apply animation to other lights in the scene.

Re: Animating DayLight Environment

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:34 pm
by juanjgon
Weird, here it works, but I don't have the scene objects. Do you have this problem only in the IPR while you move the time line, or you get the same problem with F9/F10 rendering?

-Juanjo

Re: Animating DayLight Environment

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:50 pm
by mikefrisk
It seems to have trouble going past 24 hours so I had it reset to 0 after 24 and go back up.
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This seems to have fixed it for now.

Re: Animating DayLight Environment

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:57 pm
by juanjgon
Ahhh, yes this could be the problem. This parameter should be always between 0.0 and 24.0.

-Juanjo

Re: Animating DayLight Environment

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:03 am
by mikefrisk
juanjgon wrote:Ahhh, yes this could be the problem. This parameter should be always between 0.0 and 24.0.

-Juanjo
Makes perfect sense. I just figured after 24 it would assume its day 2, i'm not always very bright.

Re: Animating DayLight Environment

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 2:02 pm
by stef
Hi Juanjo,
Thx for your perfect job !

And for North Offset, this between 0.0 and ??
Why some values are differents in envelope mode ?
Where we can find the ratio for that ?

Thx in advance & best regards.
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Re: Animating DayLight Environment

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:11 pm
by juanjgon
If you are not aware about the parameters limits, you can check this parameter in the Standalone. For example the north offset in standalone works from -1.0 to 1.0, but in the LW plugin it is mapped to degrees, so it should work from -360º to 360º

If you want to animate this parameter, you can link a constant angle node to the north offset input. The range for the animated parameter should be again from -360º to 360º

-Juanjo