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Working with the environment

Working with the environment - AutoCAD Architecture Tutorial

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Working with the environment

- [Instructor] In the previous couple of videos, we've talked about lighting, and also setting up our rendering for photo realistic rendering. We're going to stay in our 3D overall view.dwg file. But what we're going to think about now is our physical environment where we actually are in the world in order to generate real time lighting that you might use perhaps for your rendering later on. Now, in order to do this, you need to be able to specify the sun status, and the location of your building that you can see in your drawing in a specific part of the world. And it's actually really, really easy to do. It's just you've got to know the workflow to place it. So we've got our lighting and our cameras in place that we've done already. But what we're going to do now is we're going to go to the render tab on the ribbon, and into our sun, and location panel here. Now, before we do anything, just click here on the little arrow.…

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