Sun Location mapped to real world location

Ideas & Requests
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Hi,

As an Architect we need the sun to be in the correct position relative to the real world for sun studies/designing for natural light/client images etc.

Currently the sun location options in D5 are arbitrary (unless I’m missing something).

See Twinmotion or Archicad for examples of real world sun setups, they have options to input the following, which then correctly locates the sun for the building project:

  • Project World Location
  • Time of Day
  • Time of Year
  • North Point Orientation

Many thanks!

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Hi jowet,

Glad to tell you that we have added the feature in version 1.9.0(Time of day, time of year, location and North offset)
Now the version is in preview tests and will be released soon.
Please wait for updates.

Have a nice day,
Oliver

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Perfect, thanks Oliver!

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d5 sun path issue
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Hi,
Just want to raise this issue that I notice using D5 render regarding sun location. I have attached a screenshot that I encountered with the software (Archicad 28) that I am using and D5 render 2.11 using live sync. Location of the sun doesn’t match and even if I manually key in the values it stills show differently.
Looking forward to your reply.