Hints On Coord System, Axes And Sunlight

Hints On Coord System, Axes And Sunlight

Here´s a brief image about Cheetah3d´s orthographic views, alignment to cardinal directions, longitudinal/latitudinal aspects regarding the Sunlight object.
Hope this is kind of useful.

Cheers
Frank

don't know... the house has no windows.
just kiddin' :tongue:

very useful Frank, thanks a lot!:icon_thumbup:
(I still have to do the "pole" test every time because I keep on forgetting where the sun comes from...)

cheers,
Alessandro

As always a picture says more than a thousand words. Thanks for putting this one together.

SurfingAlien said:

don't know... the house has no windows.
just kiddin' :tongue:

Click to expand...

Oops - and the chimney has no opening - hopefully no one is going to use it. LOL.

Cheers
Frank

Thanks for doing this Frank! It will come in handy.

Nicely done, Frank! :icon_thumbup:

It's worth mentioning for architectural modelers that longitude has no effect. C3D uses the time set to determine the sun's position. This won't make a big difference in most cases, but in some large countries with single time zones (e.g. China) the sun's position at a given "time" will be significantly different from where C3D will position it (because the time-zone will be out of whack with longitude).

Another example: Georgia and Alabama are in different time zones. So a house on one side of the border will be rendered differently from a house on the other side of the border. (And of course C3D doesn't understand daylight savings either ;-) .)

I'd render an explanatory diagram but I don't have the time.

HI Frank.
Another useful post. I always wrestle with directions. So I've copied that pix of yours to my cheetah how-tos folder. Thanks.


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