Using Sun Study in the Reflect Viewer
Tutorial
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Beginner
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10 mins
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Unity Technologies
The Unity Reflect viewer provides built-in functionality to change the date and time of the current open scene. This allows the user to create sun studies of the proposed design and test the impact of light and shadow on different dates and times.
In this tutorial we’ll explore the interface and setting of this tool in the Reflect Viewer.
For this tutorial, you will need:
- The Unity Reflect Viewer installed
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1. Getting started
1. Open the Reflect viewer and open any project.
Figure 01: The Reflect viewer
2. To display the date/time settings, select the sun icon on the left side of the screen.
Figure 02: The current Sun Study settings
3. To change the date/time settings, select the sun icon on the right of the viewer screen
Figure 03: The Sun Study settings change icon
4. The dial will open and you can use it to change the Month (01) and Time of day (02) while the time icon (03) is active (Figure 04). To change the location of your project select location icon (04).
Figure 04: The Sun study dial
5. The dial will change and you can now use it to change the Latitude and Longitude of your project (Figure 05).
Figure 05: Changing the location of your project
2. Next Steps
You should now have an understanding of how to change the location, date and time of your project to create an accurate sun study..
Using this tool in the Reflect Viewer will allow you or a client to simulate the sun and shadow scenario for various times throughout the year and test the impact of the current design in real time.