[creasia]

I had mentioned earlier on the forum a theory on how to do this. I suggested creating an emitter for each hour of the day and then fading between them.

I managed to get it to work and it is very cool. but I don't know the colours and intensity for each of the emitters. Can anyone help with this?

[Bubbaloo]

No, but I want to see it!

[giacob]

with lw plugin it work just using sun and phical sky...
u have to set the sun tracking a light and add a sunspost modiefier to that light... u will have changing atmpshere also

[Bubbaloo]

u have to set the sun tracking a light and add a sunspost modiefier to that light...

Huh?
We're talking about a multilight animation here.

[KurtS]

I suggested creating an emitter for each hour of the day and then fading between them.

I would think you need an emitter for every 10 minutes or so to have a smooth movement of the shadows...?

[creasia]

You're right it is a problem. It turns out to be a lot of sliders too.

[Bubbaloo]

You would probably need a massive amount of RAM to do this.

[creasia]

...want to see it

I've done it with the sketchup exporter, but what do you know... It is at work, and they don't have a frame to animation exporter.

[Richard]

Good on you mate for testing that

I'd love to see the results too!

I thought about the same too some time ago but never got around to testing. I also figured it would need quite a lot of panles to get it smooth. Though I also thought that if the panels were divided up to have triangular overlaps so that as panel one starts to go off triangle two is starting. I know this may also require a graduated MXI emitter to these panels though that could be fairly easy too!

so show us your results mate please!

[creasia]

Here is the sample id did up in about 20 minutes.

It is super easy to do, I imagine that the process could be automated somehow with a plugin, and with the proper lighting levels. I based the color of the lighting on a kelvin chart that I found.

http://www.foresight3d.com/media/mov/dawndusk.wmv

[KurtS]

great, but how about a more smooth movement?

[Bubbaloo]

Here is the sample id did up in about 20 minutes.

It is super easy to do, I imagine that the process could be automated somehow with a plugin, and with the proper lighting levels. I based the color of the lighting on a kelvin chart that I found.

http://www.foresight3d.com/media/mov/dawndusk.wmv

That's a pretty cool effect. I like how the transition is not so smooth.

[creasia]

great, but how about a more smooth movement?

Agreed. This is all that 20 minutes could offer me.

This isn't rocket science. Give it a try. Lets see what you guys can come up with...

[KurtS]

the method works - you have proved that. Of course there is a problem if you can see the sky in the renderings...

I really wish that you could execute a simple script in Studio an make use of the fantastic physical sky in a daylight timelapse....

[creasia]

Next Limit is all about simulation of the real thing. I think that the multilight technology could do it, but it would have to be faked.

I wonder if one could project light onto a hemisperical object to simulate sky perhaps?