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This is a plugin for sun studies. It's in the very early stages. Comments and suggested use cases are appreciated. Giver 'er a try.



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11 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2008

    Hi Jim,
    This looks very usefull. I'm just working on some sunstudies with sketchup. Maybe you should make the sun round instead of cubic, or something that looks more like the sun? :) Thanks! JJ

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  2. JFebruary 17, 2008

    Yep, a spherical Sun is better, and easy to do. Right now, I am more interested in making it do something useful for people. Can you tell me your ideas for functionality?

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2008

    I want to use it to make a movie how much of the sun you would see on a certain position & day. It's about a discussion of some plans of building highrise and if it would cast too much shadow on a nearby neighborhood. Together with a movie from above showing the shadow, a movie from position itself would be very convincing, I think. JJ

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  4. AnonymousJuly 15, 2008

    my 2c - this would be good for complex models so you can get an idea of shadow direction without having to generate the shadows themselves, which can take a long time or even crash SU :)

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  5. UnknownJuly 28, 2008

    Is it possiable that the shadow spots will transform into surfaces?

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  6. JOctober 30, 2008

    The "square sun" represents the phyical sun in the model. The square is always aligned to the view. The origin point can be set to anything; it is not tied to the model origin. Let me know if there's a feature you'd like to see.

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  7. AnonymousApril 15, 2010

    Hi.

    Does it run in SU 7? Great Plugin!

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  8. UnknownOctober 22, 2010

    Can you explicitly visualize the value for Solar height and Solar Azimuth?

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  9. UnknownAugust 23, 2012

    Would it be feasible to generate shadow "outlines" mapping out the shape of a shadow without actually having to generate the shadows themselves?
    This would be great to use to study shadows in a model without grinding through the actual generation of same

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 06, 2014

    Link to script doesn't work :(

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  11. Simon LebonMarch 16, 2014

    Dear Jim,
    Hope you feel good ;-)
    It seems that your Sun Tool can't be downloaded anymore. Have you withdrawn it by decision or is it a dysfunction ?
    Best regards, Simon le Bon

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