I have been trying to use Sunshader, yes me, to get up a little job to Youtube.
Sunshader has proved itself to be ALMOST useful. The shortcomings are so bleeding obvious that I'm probably not the first to complain.
1. I'm sick of Sunshader's insistence on activating its own groundplane. I'm a DATACAD user for chrissakes and, unsurpisingly, I make my own, and the chances of the generated groundplane being useful to anybody is slim indeed, though perhaps there is somebody who specialises in airport control towers.
2. The frequency list needs changing. Five minutes would be nice. It would make for longer/smoother movies. And anybody using six hours is surely not serious about shadows.
3. There needs to be a properly defined time window. The sunrise to sunset checkbox is absurd and clearly set up by some dumb nerd in a sealed room who has no idea about the profession. I can get a close enough result for 0900 to 1500 by setting the minimum altitude to 19 degrees, but that is just good luck from good geography. Good management had nothing to do with it, and most users will not have that luck.
4. It would be really good if the date, time, alt and az display were in larger and bolder text. This would make them eminently more readable in movies.
Sunshader is not a replacement for dhShadow when it comes down to the serious business of technical documentation of solar matters down here in Godzone, where the sun shines bright. But it has great potential to do the stuff that dhShadow cannot do. And it is nearly there....
Sunshader has proved itself to be ALMOST useful. The shortcomings are so bleeding obvious that I'm probably not the first to complain.
1. I'm sick of Sunshader's insistence on activating its own groundplane. I'm a DATACAD user for chrissakes and, unsurpisingly, I make my own, and the chances of the generated groundplane being useful to anybody is slim indeed, though perhaps there is somebody who specialises in airport control towers.
2. The frequency list needs changing. Five minutes would be nice. It would make for longer/smoother movies. And anybody using six hours is surely not serious about shadows.
3. There needs to be a properly defined time window. The sunrise to sunset checkbox is absurd and clearly set up by some dumb nerd in a sealed room who has no idea about the profession. I can get a close enough result for 0900 to 1500 by setting the minimum altitude to 19 degrees, but that is just good luck from good geography. Good management had nothing to do with it, and most users will not have that luck.
4. It would be really good if the date, time, alt and az display were in larger and bolder text. This would make them eminently more readable in movies.
Sunshader is not a replacement for dhShadow when it comes down to the serious business of technical documentation of solar matters down here in Godzone, where the sun shines bright. But it has great potential to do the stuff that dhShadow cannot do. And it is nearly there....
Nick Pyner
Dee Why Beach NSW
Dee Why Beach NSW