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Working with Sun & Sky settings

Working with Sun & Sky settings - InfraWorks Tutorial

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Working with Sun & Sky settings

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- [Voiceover] You'll be amazed to see how much you can change the look of your model by simply changing the time of day or the weather conditions. I want to bring up the Sun & Sky settings, and I'll do that by clicking the presentation icon and then Sun & Sky. That brings up an asset card, which actually is a really simple way to manipulate what's going on in the sky or with the lighting of the model. The two sections are Date & Time and then Wind & Clouds. The sliders are really simple. All I do is click and drag to change the time of the day, and, as you can guess, as I get earlier into the morning, the shadows get longer. The lighting of the overall model gets a bit darker until I get into complete darkness. As I roll the other way, the shadows get shorter until I pass about noon, and then they get longer again as I get closer to evening time. Not only do the lengths of the shadows change but also the angle of the sun or the angle of the shadows themselves. What we're dealing with…

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