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[ARCHICAD] Bug Reporting / Re: ArchiCAD22/23 light sources not rendered correctly

« on: 2020-04-10, 16:53:58 »

Thanks!
Yes, in the meantime I've also discovered this workaround, but once saved back in AC22, I prefer rendering from there using Corona alpha 4 with no issues on representing lamp geometry.
Hoping that development of Corona for ArchiCAD will be resumed once things come back to some sort of normality...

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[ARCHICAD] Feature Requests / Saving rendered image in multipage TIFF format by LightSelect objects

« on: 2020-04-10, 12:09:29 »

Hi!
It would be geat to have the possibility to save the final rendered image in a multipage TIFF format, where beauty and alpha channel are pages and each LightSelect object with it's contribution to illumination of the scene as well. Just like in Maxwell Render for example. It's huge advantage is that you can open it later in any editor program (for ex, Gimp) and the TIFF-pages can be imported as layers for later processing inany overlay setting (for simulating different light intensity settings on the same scene). Attached you can find such an example (with reduced image size)
Great job otherways!
Thanks!

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[ARCHICAD] Bug Reporting / ArchiCAD22/23 light sources not rendered correctly

« on: 2020-04-09, 14:30:43 »

In ArchiCAD 22/23 (maybe even 21- I haven't tried) a large number of archicad lamps are rendered incorrectly as follows (the list can be fine-tuned):
- Floor lamps, Fluorescent lamps, Archicad area light: light present, no geometry
- Spotlights: indirect light present, no direct light, geometry ok / no geometry with black disc instead of glass material
- Recessed spotlights: no light, geometry ok / no geometry with black disc instead of glass material

Changing materials for glass on light source has no effect.
It happens in interactive as well as in rendering mode.
This bug can be checked on any simple scene, I attach my simpliest one.

On this scene you can test another bug as well, mentioned under topic "Multipass porblem":
In AC23 when setting up Render Elements - Shading/LightSelect and try to add selected light sources, the result is instant crash. No matter if I try to add lights one by one or multiple selections. This was common porblem in alpha 3 for AC22, where adding only multiple selection resulted in crash. In alpha 5 the problem manifests only under AC23, in AC22 adding even multiple selection works fine.