Help with standard/physical camera

[heavyweather]

Sorry. I still dont understand how it works.

1. you click on that sun...then you have to place the light somewhere...
looks like a normal directional light in Rhino. When I go to the light properties dialog I can modify the sun. Then the arrowlight does change direction.
Is it just an normal directional light or is there more to it than the direction? Does a global location come with coor in the light?
Is it important where I place that directional sun?

2. What does the points in the dialog mean? where do I turn down the intensity and to what number?
Why doesn*t the standard kamera feature f-stops and exposure time? or the physical camera a spherical 360° lens...I would also love to turn off vignetting in physical camera.
What is the use of a "standard camera" anyways in this system?

This is somewhat confusing.

will the standard camera work in a proper release without turning down sun intensity?

3. is the y-axis on the top view plane north? What about sea level? is standard sea level at z=0 always zero? Do I get different sun if I move the model 5000m above sea level?

I am missing a discription of the featured options in the sun system. How about a 2 pages pdf...or does it exist and I just cant find it?

That is what my render looks like...sometimes vray is easy to set up but sometimes it really is a bit*h.

I hope there will be a demo of a proper working release and that the trial time will start from 0 or I will have testet this release only.

[joe_b]

Help with standard/physical camera

1. you click on that sun...then you have to place the light somewhere...
looks like a normal directional light in Rhino. When I go to the light properties dialog I can modify the sun. Then the arrowlight does change direction.
Is it just an normal directional light or is there more to it than the direction? Does a global location come with coor in the light?

You need to turn down the sun in the environment section of our options by editing the BG / GI map where the Sky texture is placed. If you have made your own sun-light then you can also directly edit the intensity there in the light properties.

Is it important where I place that directional sun?

At the moment - no it isn't important, only the direction it is facing

2. What does the points in the dialog mean? where do I turn down the intensity and to what number?

I'm not sure I follow what you are asking here, sorry. Are you talking about inside the RDK's SunLight dialog?

Why doesn*t the standard kamera feature f-stops and exposure time? or the physical camera a spherical 360° lens...I would also love to turn off vignetting in physical camera.
What is the use of a "standard camera" anyways in this system?

You can turn vignetting off in the physical camera options under the Camera tab in our global options (it is toward the bottom-right of the physical camera panel ).

The standard camera is what is known as a pin-hole camera in computer graphics. It has no concept of f-stop, film, or any other physical properties.

will the standard camera work in a proper release without turning down sun intensity?

Since it has no concept of exposure - no. You will need to remove the Sun/Sky from your environment, or limit the intensity of it.

I hope there will be a demo of a proper working release and that the trial time will start from 0 or I will have testet this release only.

This is the official release, so I guess its as proper as we're getting at the moment. I believe there is some Sun information in the manual that was recently released - I think its around page 78-80 maybe?

[joe_b]

Re: Help with standard/physical camera

I split this out of the bugs section and made it its own topic, for reference, it began here