Post by tastegw on Feb 11, 2016 5:36:50 GMT -5
Thought i would post this here as well as some of you folks do not participate on the other side:
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Ok, after seeing nevada's thread on this subject, on a subject that I really thought was straight forward, I figured i would get this out there for anyone who is confused about it.
There are 3 sliders for controlling the lighting:
~Time of Day
~Orientation
~Inclination
Lets start with "Time of Day"
No matter where you are in the world, the sun always comes up on the east, but depending on how far north or south you are from the equator, it may be northeast or southeast to a degree.
So if you are doing a real life recreation, keep that in mind, you want the sun to be set close to "East" for the early morning hours.
As the time of day increases towards afternoon, it moves to the west, "duh" you say, ya its really simple.
So morning is east, and afternoon is west (sides of your land plot)
Moving on to "Orientation"
one guy said Orientation and Time of day act the same or similar, which is not true.
The graph above illustrates how orientation works, the land plot you are looking straight down at from up high, moving the slider here does not effect time of day or inclination, it only re-positions the north/south/east/west parameters. So in other words, lets say you have your sun set early morning, and you move the orientation slider, what you are doing, is resetting where the "east" parameter is (witch in return also resets north/south/west)
Moving on to "Inclination"
Inclination determines how far north or south from the equator your course is. So if you are making a tropical course that is located right on the equator, you want this up high, you want the sun up high int he sky, this does not mean you can't have morning or afternoon settings, just where the sun is positioned in relation to its global location.
If your course is way up north in extreme crazy canada, this inclination will be set much lower, but you can still have mid day sun if you wanted it by sliding the time of day slider to mid day.
any questions?
i got answers.
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Ok, after seeing nevada's thread on this subject, on a subject that I really thought was straight forward, I figured i would get this out there for anyone who is confused about it.
There are 3 sliders for controlling the lighting:
~Time of Day
~Orientation
~Inclination
Lets start with "Time of Day"
No matter where you are in the world, the sun always comes up on the east, but depending on how far north or south you are from the equator, it may be northeast or southeast to a degree.
So if you are doing a real life recreation, keep that in mind, you want the sun to be set close to "East" for the early morning hours.
As the time of day increases towards afternoon, it moves to the west, "duh" you say, ya its really simple.
So morning is east, and afternoon is west (sides of your land plot)
Moving on to "Orientation"
one guy said Orientation and Time of day act the same or similar, which is not true.
The graph above illustrates how orientation works, the land plot you are looking straight down at from up high, moving the slider here does not effect time of day or inclination, it only re-positions the north/south/east/west parameters. So in other words, lets say you have your sun set early morning, and you move the orientation slider, what you are doing, is resetting where the "east" parameter is (witch in return also resets north/south/west)
Moving on to "Inclination"
Inclination determines how far north or south from the equator your course is. So if you are making a tropical course that is located right on the equator, you want this up high, you want the sun up high int he sky, this does not mean you can't have morning or afternoon settings, just where the sun is positioned in relation to its global location.
If your course is way up north in extreme crazy canada, this inclination will be set much lower, but you can still have mid day sun if you wanted it by sliding the time of day slider to mid day.
any questions?
i got answers.
