[Hervé]

and also the color changes....

[stonelli]

True

[rivoli]

a sun study will require a single render instead of 12...
a day/night study in a single render...

well, actually this won't allow you to change sun position on the fly. i mean you can increase/decrease sun intensity, but you can't have it going from an hour of the day to another. changing only its intensity will lead to inaccurate simulation rather than giving you a correct day/night study in one render.

edit:
in other words: what stonelli said typing faster than me.

[tom]

Sorry, but it's really hard to give the same answer 1000 times
So, here's it:

The sun should not be adjusted in this fashion... sunlight light should always have one intensity at a specified time of the day. A different time means different position of the sun (different shadows and that); which complicates matter. The video illustrates interactive intensities, not interactive positions.

It is a "fantastic" option of emission and user may leave it intact, no problems here.

[Miles]

You will be able to get 1 day view and 1 night view out of the same render though, no? That's 100% saving, maybe.......

[rivoli]

i guess so.

[tom]

You will be able to get 1 day view and 1 night view out of the same render though, no? That's 100% saving, maybe.......

Exactly and a slight balance control without sacrificing reality, it's obvious.

[ricardo]

so what happens if you try to combine two MXI files that are slightly different, say you move an emitter or even the sun? Will you get an error? or does this open up some interesting possibilities?

I'd guess unpredictable results.

[KRZ]

ha buffos your up to something cool!
what about nl gives us the option to render 12+ suns!! we can disabale them as we need and have a cool joice of natural sunlight settings. i think thisd is not that difficult to do compared to the work it means to generate 12 mxs files...but i have no real clue how the sun is implemented into the render.

[ludi]

12 mxs files...but i have no real clue how the sun is implemented into the render.

Would mean: Quality would be 12 times worser, right?

[big K]

This is GREAT news!

I would like to add a bit to the idea.
If we could have a list with all the emmiters and be able to change intensity to more than one at the same time (shift - click to add an emmiter from the list to the selection, control - click to subtract from the selection), to be able to numerically set the same value for the selected emmiters and to able to shift - drag the slider so that the selected emmiters' intensity changes analogically.
Like in Adobe illustrator when you have a CMYK color in the color palette, you can shift - drag the slider and all the colors change but keep the same analogy between them.
With this functionality, opposed to a one-at-a-time-editing you could setup a dome of emmiters, render and then setup intensities!

I guess we will be able to change even the light color very soon.
It is based on the same principal (I think).

Something like this:

what about something like lightgroups.
adjust the parameters of a whole group with one click. (percentage)
you are then able to add and remove lights to this group any time even if they have different individual settings.

michael

[dex001]

NL,

wowwwww- just amazing the light feature, a real breakthrough in workflow !
This feature will speed up optimizing light situations a lot !
Same feature for material tweaking plzzzzz

any release date for this feature already ?

dex001

[Kabe]

No wait, I think what's really going on is that multiple objects can be assigned the same emitter material that carries a certain ID, thus "grouping" all the lights together in effect. But this of course doesn't allow changing individual lights in the "group"

Yes, I hope that's the way it's implemented.

Kabe

[jleckron]

Maybe instead of grouping for lights, they'll do it more like selection sets, so that if you, say, have three lights in your scene (A, B, and C), you could assign selection numbers for several combinations, like this

1: A
2: B
3: C
4: AB
5: AC
6: BC
7: ABC

That make sense?

[Fernando Tella]

Say you have 35 lights... too many combinations.