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  • cadmovie1601_03 – Outdoor Lighting – Point Light

    • January 30, 2016
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    • jonathan

    Point Light – A point light is like a bare light bulb. The light goes out in all directions. I often use this light to replicate the effect of light sources in fittings.

  • cadmovie1601_02 – Outdoor Lighting – Heliodon

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    • jonathan

    Heliodon – The Heliodon tool is similar to the Set Sun Position command. Vectorworks places a specific Heliodon object whose parameters can be adjusted in the Object Info palette. This makes it much more flexible than the Set Sun Position command, allowing you to change the time of the day…

  • cadmovie1601_01 – Outdoor Lighting – Directional Lights

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    • jonathan

    Directional Lights – The directional light is like a sun, it is an outside light. The directional light is the type of light that is placed when you use the Set Sun Position from the View menu (only in Fundamentals). This light source has a direction and casts shadows but…

  • Landscape Special Interest Group January (am) 2015

    • January 28, 2016
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      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    Topics covered: 00:00   create a Subdivision surface 02:55  create a new texture (color, transparency, etc.) to add 04:55   create another Subdivision object (for the side netting), rotate and edit it 08.08   mirror/copy the new subdivision(s) and edit 10:05   create a grass texture (new in 2016) for…

  • Vectorworks Tip 361 – Light Falloff

    • January 19, 2016
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    • jonathan

    As you move away from a light source the intensity of the light falls off. The actual amount that falls off is another physics concept known as the inverse square law. In simple terms as you double the distance from the light, the intensity of the light goes down by…

  • Interactive Workshops January 2016 (1601) – Outdoor Lighting

    • January 14, 2016
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    • jonathan

    Rendering is a fun art of using Vectorworks and in the past we have covered lighting (1502), but we covered it from the point of view of interior and architectural lighting. This manual is about exterior lighting, which suggests that we should be looking at nighttime lighting for architectural and…

  • Vectorworks Tip 358 – Color Temperature for Lights

    • January 12, 2016
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    • jonathan

    When you create a light in Vectorworks you have the ability to change the colour. One of the settings is to use colour temperature. The colour temperature is physics concept that relates the colour of the light to the temperature of the surface radiating the light (in degrees Kelvin). In…

  • SST_1601 – Outdoor Lighting

    • January 8, 2016
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      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    Rendering is a fun art of using Vectorworks and in the past we have covered lighting (1502), but we covered it from the point of view of interior and architectural lighting. This manual is about exterior lighting, which suggests that we should be looking at nighttime lighting for architectural and…

  • cadmovie1502_10 – Lighting – Part 10

    • April 11, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Visibility Palette When you start adding lights to the project, the Visibility palette becomes very useful. You can use this palette to see all the lights and cameras in the file, you can use it to select lights and cameras, and you can use it to edit them.

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