[fractrix]

Hey everybody !

I have some strange behaviour of the sun in a simple test scene I did. I made a 5km x 5km displaced cube as a landscape testdummy and shoot up a render and got this:





Why is this happening ? Shouldn't the sun emit almost parallel light even with objects this big ???

How can I achieve 'normal' sunlight distribution ?!?

[tom]

Can you tell more about your scene and positions of your objects/camera etc. I see no sunlight in this scene but something like an emitter.

[fractrix]

This emitter is the sunlight ! What am I doing wrong ?

Could I send you the scene-file ?

Thank you !

[fractrix]

I uploaded the scene file here:

http://uploaded.to/?id=gqhx0b

[KurtS]

I've had similar problems with very large scenes. Or when objects are very far form eachother it looks like one object can appear outside the area the maxwell sun can reach?

[janosch1234]

if you change
pivot y value to 0 (you have -34.166 meters there)
and after that y geometry position to 0
then it renders ok here.

Regards

Jan

[jomaga]

You should check your scale, the object is actually 50kmx50km wide

[fractrix]

if you change
pivot y value to 0 (you have -34.166 meters there)
and after that y geometry position to 0
then it renders ok here.

Sorry, but then the sun is on the underside of the object !!!
Just render a view of the bottom side !

[tom]

Thanks for the scene fractrix. Your object is 50 km x 50 km which is quite big for common purpose but sunlight shouldn't fail anyway. If that's not a limitation of the current system, I would call it's a bug. We'll check this and let you know.

[fractrix]

You should check your scale, the object is actually 50kmx50km wide

Yes, you are right ! Just found out. Must be an import (vue) problem. But thats still strange. Sun should give almost parallel light, shouldn't it ?

[fractrix]

Thanks for the scene fractrix. Your object is 50 km x 50 km which is quite big for common purpose but sunlight shouldn't fail anyway. If that's not a limitation of the current system, I would call it's a bug. We'll check this and let you know.

Thank you very much, tom !!! I just try to fake a sun with an emitter far away, but that seems not so easy ...

[tom]

Thank you very much, tom !!! I just try to fake a sun with an emitter far away, but that seems not so easy ...

Why do you do that? Do you seriously need rendering a 50 km x 50 km landscape? If yes, that's ok.

[fractrix]

Thank you very much, tom !!! I just try to fake a sun with an emitter far away, but that seems not so easy ...

Why do you do that? Do you seriously need rendering a 50 km x 50 km landscape? If yes, that's ok.

No, the whole story is, I did a landscape test render a while ago in Maxwell RC5, and today I thought I could work it out a bit with the new version. Then I found I was not able to get the same 'natural' look. So I did this additional test and it was exported 10 times bigger out of vue and then I found this strange sun behaviour. It seems related to my problem of getting the look I already got.