Hours of sunlight plugin
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Is there a plugin that can determine the hours of sunlight that shines on different areas of a landscape, or a place to request such a plugin? I would like to plan out the placement of plants in a yard based on the number of sunlight hours each area receives. TIG's ShadowProjector plugin does something close to what I want. If it projected the shadows for an entire day (maybe every half hour) with the shadows overlapping. I tried overlapping shadows with this plugin, but it doesn't seem to work. If you could overlap the shadows, and then add 30 minutes for every time a shadow overlapped, and somehow label it with the sum of the shadow hours subtracted from total sunlight hours in a day. (possibly like the elevation is done on a contour map) it would be perfect. This would be invaluable in determining what types of plants to place in different areas based on their light requirements.
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Check out Kiril's LSS chronolux plugin. Its pretty awesome!
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Here we go, I found a link:
https://sites.google.com/site/lssoft2011/home/chronolux
Check out his other plugins while your there. They're all pretty awesome
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I watched this video on youtube of Chronolux 1.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE6Zc5jqhbc
It was so close to what I wanted that it made me laugh in a "did they just read my mind?" kind of way. The different colors, and the example with a contour looking map made my eyes pop! Thank you Chris for pointing me towards this plugin. I really could not have asked for a better answer.
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