Different timezone per scene?
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I am currently using two extra scenes for my sun study of two different dates. I import the main model into each of the other models which is set up to their own time/date/timezone.
Works. But it still bothers me that this change was made in regard to maintaining old models/projects.
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I can get a nice animation of the NorthAngle when clicking Scenes (using my plug-in,) but it doesn't work when playing the animation, nor does it export as video.
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So are we saying per-Scene Shadow Info is obsolete, and this is not a bug?
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No, scenes do have different settings for shadow - time and darkness lightness etc. but it appear that the timezone property for scenes are ignored. This is not mentioned in the manual at all.
I reported it as a but - still awaiting reply. (SU-0623)
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@thomthom said:
No, scenes do have different settings for shadow - time and darkness lightness etc. but it appear that the timezone property for scenes are ignored. This is not mentioned in the manual at all.
Actually - I'm not really sure. It's all confusing what's been changed.
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I said it above, but maybe got skipped over, I think those values are there for legacy support. I think that is probably where SU 6 kept them, and read them. But SU 7 does not, and its on purpose.
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hm... well, shadow info, time/date lightness, darkness on/off is set per page. But timezone is now dead except when it belongs to
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Which fits perfectly with my theory that they removed anything that might appear to change the location of a model from the scenes. The model still holds info there, but SU does not read it. It only reads location info from the model object. And time zone could be considered a location info.
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@chris fullmer said:
And time zone could be considered a location info.
This is where I disagree.
It'd be interesting to see what Google replies to my bug report though.
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@chris fullmer said:
Which fits perfectly with my theory that they removed anything that might appear to change the location of a model from the scenes. The model still holds info there, but SU does not read it. It only reads location info from the model object. And time zone could be considered a location info.
And yet - you can have different North direction per scene...
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I think SU models still hold that information for legacy support, but I don't think it is being read or acknowledged anywhere in 7.0+, is it?
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You can set up scenes with different north angles in SU7.0/1 - no problem. Good thing for when you set up illustrations where you want to control the shadow to give the best description of the geometry - which will vary from scene to scene depending on the camera.
So I don't see why one can't set different timezone per scene.
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That is odd. I would guess that ability was only left for the shadow illustration reason. All in all though, it does seem rather frustrating.
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yea - if you can set north angle for illustrational purposes, you should be able to set the timezone. Of the two - timezone doesn't affect the model location.
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