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Greetings,

I have a question about o2c lights: I'm modeling a small lobby, and there are a number of pendant lights (roughly 24). If I make a symbol, can I include an o2c light in each one? Or, will this only work with an XRef?

I'm pretty sure that I remember from a presentation that Mark M. gave, that there is an easy way to get as many lights into a model as you might want...

If so, how does one put an o2c light into a model?

That is something I have wondered before. I would also like to know how to place lights in a model. I have also heard that if you shrink your model really small. You can use the lights to act as the default/sun light and get it to come in from the direction you want.

So what does the placing of multiple light sources look like, still?

I've created a drawing of a lamp together with a light. It shows and renders just like it should in the . The light is placed just next to the bulb, not inside it. But when I insert the lamp into a different drawing as an XREF the .

What have I missed?




Sincerely,
Marko

I discovered that the "include lights from XREFs" of rendering options was unchecked. Now all lights show as expected.



Sincerely,
Marko

I am still trying to figure out the relationship between the settings within the Shader and the internal O2C Viewer and creation of O2C objects. I am trying to change the sun direction to impact shadow creation in views rendered from the viewer. No matter what I change, I can only get shadows created from a light source from the upper right of the image.

Are changes to the Sunlight intensity, orientation, and ambient settings supposed to be reflected in the O2C viewer? I do not have any lights set in the model other than Sunlight.



What does the "Lights=xx" setting in the O2C section of Dcadwin.ini do?

Thanks

To follow up on some additional testing, I tried to go through Migel's series of light settings in the O2C viewer and the "Lamps On/Off" has no effect when I toggle it on or off. Changes to light settings are reflected when using the Shader however.

I tested these settings using the default drawing supplied by DataCad as part of the V12 release package and the light settings work fine. I then copied (using the clipboard) the model from my original file to the DataCad supplied default drawing and the light setting stopped working.

There must be a setting or linkage between the Shader settings and the O2C viewer that is missing or broken.

A puzzler for sure.