Linear Light Source II
Pro Architect 15 c2.
Don’t know if this is a deficiency in the product or a user error. If the latter, please educate me! If the former, Cadsoft please add this to your bug list.
I have a 5:12 sloped Ceiling Surface, against which I have elevated “Fluorescent Ceiling Office Fixture” lights from the Catalog, with Size Properties squished into something approximating the LED strip lighting I’d prefer to select, if it was available.
I tilted the fixtures to 23 degrees on the Y-axis to match the slope of the roof (to the nearest integer). Yet the light from the fixtures remains horizontal (note the shadows).
So I set the Up/Down, and then the Left/Right, “Light Orientation” to 23 degrees. Light was still cast horizontally. (I’m not sure at this point what these parametrics actually do. I found nothing about Light Orientation in the Help file.) (I do know the spinner controls for them don’t work; you have to type the entry. But need for typing is a minor complaint at this point.)
It’s surprisingly distracting in rendered views. Is there a way to have these fixtures cast light on the adjacent wall at 5:12/22.6 degrees instead of 0:12?
(P.S. Note that in the Section view, I had to click on the ceiling to select it for the screenshot, because it inexplicitly disappears across most of its length. So look closely for the light green line.)
(P.P.S. The baby-sh*t yellow brick will get painted a color TBD, or maybe tiled. But it’s only slightly more gruesome in the pic than in real life! And it’s all over the exterior, too. Don’t judge me, I didn’t choose it.)
(P.P.P.S. Cadsoft: When I add a ceiling fixture, I expect it to elevate and orient itself to the ceiling on which it’s placed. I shouldn’t have to fuss with calculating elevations…that’s the software’s job.) (And if you zoom in on the section, you’ll see the dumb human using the software still doesn’t have it right…!)
SDS, the invisible light fixture solution has been around since the Atlantis forum! (Also sometimes suggested as a replacement for daylight.)
Considered it here, but rejected it because (A) I’m out of patience with rendering this room, and (B) I suspect the ceiling fan would cast bizarre shadows on the ceiling. Multiple invisible fixtures would help reduce that, but fluorescents in Envisioneer are not linear light sources; they are point light sources in a linear container, and therefore cast fairly distinct shadows.
As with Conrad’s reply, I appreciate the suggestion, SDS. But this is a problem Cadsoft needs to solve. It needs to “Just Work”.
If I put 256w of fluorescent tubes into a small, 225sf room with light walls and ceiling, (forgetting, for the moment, that what I really want is LED strip lights) (let alone setting the fluorescents to 2000% brightness)–it should be BRIGHT!
[Edit] Also just realized there should be at least one reflection of the light fixtures in the window glass in the night rendering.
