Lighting file

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Hi everybody,

I have a couple of nxtLighting files for various rendering issues. But once I open them, dates of the sun are not corresponding to what I setted up!

For instance, the file in attachment should have the december, 20, 2010 as date, but it shows me other dates.

[akinlolu olugboji]

Here it shown 19th of December 2011. Four in the afternoon.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Looks like it's off by one day.  I'll put it on the list to fix.

[akinlolu olugboji]

and 12 twelve months.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

It doesn't save or use the year.

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Exactly, it doesn't save the year and the the day is incorrect. Roy, please try to change the channels numbers as well and save to another name, because I had to save it several times to have the desired channels number. Thanks a lot.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

The channels are working fine.  It doesn't change the total # of channels in the drawing, so that could easily account for any weird behavior you were seeing.  Like I said, the year is neither used in the calculation nor saved with the drawing so it may not be correct. (It always shows as the current year, I think.)

The only thing that is wrong here, as far as I can tell, is that the day is off by one.  It's on the list.  Keep in mind that one day will make very little difference in the sun position.

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Yes Roy, one day doesn't make the difference in the sun position. But the first time I charged the file, the difference was 4 days, the year was the current and the number of channels was fix to 4. I mean, there's something wrong generally in the saving of the file. Thanks.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Nope, I haven't found anything like that.  If you can reproduce an error of more than 1 day let me know how and I'll give it a try here.

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Right. I'll be working on it at mid of next week.