shadow studies with different color shadow

[sami]

Does anyone know if there is a way to do shadow studies where one building casts a different color shadow from the rest of the buildings?

In the past I have used ArchiCAD to create my shadow studies, I would do two versions one with our building and one without then use Photoshop to manually change the color of our building.. I’m hoping there is a better way in Revit..

[Andre Carvalho]

Unfortunatelly no.

Andre Carvalho

[Scott D Davis]

Ecotect will do this.

[Norton_cad]

You could render the image without the new building, setting the sun colour as the default. Then add your new building, change the colour of the Sun, and re-render it. You can't superimpose one render on top of the other though. Just a before & after.

You can superimpose a non-rendered 3D view, but can't change the colour of the shadows. Adding Shadows to the Visability Graphics annotation tab would be a good improvement. Also the ability to export to ACAD, with the shadows interperated as a solid fill with a high transparency, would be good as well. Then at least in ACAD you could manually change the colour. Maybe next release......

[sami]

some discussion on this same topic here:

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=89059&highlight=shadow+studies

I think I will try my hands at Ecotect for future projects, hope it integrates well with Revit..

[dhurtubise]

Definitely Ecotec, and pretty simple to do
The integration is not bad at all for now. I'm looking for more improvements now that they bought the company