Change the solar angle

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Hi,

The documentation mention a shortcut to change the solar angle.

It seams that it doesn’t really correspond to any simulation of reality. it would be nice to mention it.

Also, after testing the function, how one can come back to the “default”/simulation situation ?

Is there any value feedback somewhere ?

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I didn’t mention it, but the “solar angle” is still the same after closing and reopen both Enscape and Revit.

Now I’m completely stuck, unable to reset the “solar angle” to do the solar study I wanted to do in Enscape.

Is there not a hidden console to type a command to reset this in the engine ?

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To adjust the time of day according to a set geo location and date (has to be defined in the Revit view), simply right click and move the mouse. The other option is to actually overwrite the simulated sun’s orbit. Hope that helps!

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Thank you Clemens, but it doesn’t help.

I know about the Revit setting and I explicitly mention that the sun orbit problem that you call “overwrite the simulated sun’s orbit”

As I said before, I would like to come back to the “normal situation” the one that correspond to the Revit location and date.

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I think I was wrong on one point :

When closing the enscape windows and reopening from Revit, it seams that it reset it to the “normal” revit setting (without solar angle)

But without knowing where to find the value feedback, it’s difficult to be sure. ( I’m also playing with different dates…)

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Unfortunately there’s no ‘reset’ button for that option and also no feedback of the values. We might consider adding that in the future though. What you can do right now, is switch views to reset the sun position without having restart Enscape completely.

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Thanks !