@davidboulder said:
I haven't looked through this entire post.
Good, don't waste your time ๐ Just watch the videos and if there is one you like, then use code associated to that video. Much of the thread was me rambling on and on.
@davidboulder said:
As long as I was careful how I named my scenes, I could drop swap out my SketchUp fle in my Layout project, and get a quick shadow studies for any project.
I think that is an neat idea too.
I find myself drawn to video and animation for this type of study personally, but whatever works for what you need it for.
I would like to develop a full script that layers multiple shadow times on top of eachother and colors them differently - maybe blue red and orange or something for morning noon and afternoon, for each day of the year. I think that is potentially a useful script.
Bytheway, Al at renderplus has a script that will layer shadows on top of each other and output them as a single image. I think it is part of his NPR (non-photo-real) toolkit. I'm not sure if it costs or is free. But he developed that after we had some discussions along this line, about how to layer shadows. It is workth looking at.
Chris