ACT Ceiling & Light Fixture Issues

[SkiSouth]

I experimented with this earlier and almost posted the same suggestion about using a sloped glazing roof. You can nest a light fixture family in a curtain panel and it will render, I tried it, it works. The fixture has to be able to flex with the panel since curtain panel don't have parameters for width and length, so instance parameters for the sizes are required. You have to make the family shared for it to create light when rendered, and workplane based so the fixture can be placed in the plane a panel requires.

To pull it off you'd have to create these objects for each type of ceiling fixture you want to render. As for the ceiling and tees, it works quite well. You do need to make a ceiling material that doesn't include the "tee" grid. I photoshopped out the grid in my experiment. It is just awkward to deal with the fixtures that need to be part of the ceiling.

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Man, good research. Thanks for putting the time in.

[SkiSouth]

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BTW: Nice renderings Skisouth...really nice!

Thanks. These are all Accurender only renders. No pshop.