Section Planes and "realistic" shadows

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Do you prefer Section shadows or Realistic shadows in a section/plan render?

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Section Planes and "realistic" shadows

Post by fractal.design » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:33 am

Hello,

Firstly, awesome you added the section planes feature, it makes life so much easier, thank you.


Firstly (and this may be more of a Skindigo request),
If a section plane is active in the modelling program, I think it should be enabled in indigo, what you see should be what you get.
Currently you must enable the section cut for indigo rendering, it'd be sweet if it was automatic ;)


Secondly (and this is a more general archvis problem/question/request),
It would be nice to have an option to enable "realistic shadows" while rendering a section.

For example,
Sketchup:
Image
Indigo:
Image

Section in Sketchup:
Image
is this in Indigo:
Image

But it'd be great if there was an option to enable Indigo to render this (quick photoshop example):
Image


Technically, I understand this may go against the whole process of Indigo (rendering invisible geometry?)

Conventionally, I understand that having shadows behave as if the geometry isn't actually there may help to actually read the image, but in terms of conveying accurate spatial (light) qualities, it's a lie.

So it would great to have this option.

What are your thoughts?

Cheers

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Re: Section Planes and "realistic" shadows

Post by Zom-B » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:53 am

That is already a option and available since Indigo 3.4.9:
http://www.indigorenderer.com/forum/vie ... =1&t=11920

Also its availible in Skindigo 3.4.12:
#Added: option to cull geometry behind section planes (in advanced render settings)

Have fun with the new feature :)
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Re: Section Planes and "realistic" shadows

Post by fractal.design » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:41 pm

Doh! Awesome!

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Re: Section Planes and "realistic" shadows

Post by Whaat » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:25 am

fractal.design wrote:Firstly (and this may be more of a Skindigo request),
If a section plane is active in the modelling program, I think it should be enabled in indigo, what you see should be what you get.
Currently you must enable the section cut for indigo rendering, it'd be sweet if it was automatic ;)
I agree, this would be better, but the SketchUp API does not have any methods to tell us if a section plane is currently active in the scene. So, unfortunately, this is imposible.

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Re: Section Planes and "realistic" shadows

Post by fractal.design » Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:00 am

Oh I see.

So you guys have officially thought of everything! Nice!

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