animated shadow study

[kamikaze]

hi guys...i'll be doing an animated shadow study for an institution. I'd like to know if there are any techniques to bring the sky/environment to move and transition from dawn till mid day till dusk...and finally night time.

 

 

any tips and suggestions?? thanks so much...more power to this site!!

[JamesTaylor]

it is possible to keyframe the daylight system in viz, should produce the result your after.

 

alternatively if you mean changing the colour of skys / moving clouds etc you may want to try creating an animated map for use as the environment. i think it should be possible.

[Tim Fairbanks]

It's been a few years since I used VIZ, but in the older versions, there was no support for animating bitmaps (which is one reason we moved to 3ds max).

 

The only way to animate the background in VIZ would be to produce a movie file that is already animated and load it as the environment/skydome, or to post-process an animated background in Adobe Premiere, After Effects, etc.

 

Another thing about max/VIZ is that the intensity of your sunlight will approximate reality: i.e. your scene will get brighter and darker according to the angle of incidence of your sunlight source. Sometimes, architects need to simply show where shadows will fall in a very diagramatic way, and having the scene get brighter and darker, especially during the Soltices, confuses the communication by producing renderings that seem "overexposed " in summer and "underexposed" in winter.

[kamikaze]

Yeah that's a good idea. animated map. i do that at home with max. I'll try it here in viz. thanks smuch guys!!!