Bill Tillman Posted March 13, 2009 Posted March 13, 2009 I have no idea what to do next. I cannot set the sky with illumination. In fact I can't turn the sky on at all. I have checked and LIGHTINGUNITS are on, that is I've tried 1 and 2, even setting it to 0 to see if that would kickstart something then back to 1 and 2. But no matter what I try, the Sky Properties Status continues to show off and it's shaded and I cannot even open up the choices for it. Can anyone tell me why AutoCAD 2009 would be doing this? Quote
Noahma Posted March 13, 2009 Posted March 13, 2009 did you turn on your sun first? and did you turn off the default lighting? Quote
Bill Tillman Posted March 13, 2009 Author Posted March 13, 2009 Yes, the sun is switch on and the default lighting is turned off. I've read the docs until my eyes hurt and cannot seem to find what's up with this. The sun choices will not even open up so some variable somewhere has to be holdimg this thing hostage. Quote
john1983 Posted March 13, 2009 Posted March 13, 2009 ahhh ive had this problem too, try and change the view to perspective that worked for me Quote
Lazarus Posted March 13, 2009 Posted March 13, 2009 http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=33391 john1983 Quote
Bill Tillman Posted March 13, 2009 Author Posted March 13, 2009 Perspective view resolved the issue. But the sky in the renderings is just a dull grey color. I don't know it that's the graphic card limitation or if using a background would improve the asthetics. What's a real ***** about this is no where in the AutoCAD Help menu does it mention that Perspective must be turned on before the Sky will work. Quote
rustysilo Posted March 14, 2009 Posted March 14, 2009 Welcome to the world of Autodesk HELP! I tried that today as well and didn't like the dull color so I just used a photo as the background. Worked beautifully. Here's the photo I used. Quote
Bill Tillman Posted March 14, 2009 Author Posted March 14, 2009 Could you elaborate a little more. How did you apply this picture to the drawing background? Also, I checked out some of your videos on You-Tube. Is there no audio with them, because all I got was video, no sound. Quote
rustysilo Posted March 15, 2009 Posted March 15, 2009 They are silent cadd video's. I created a named view and there was a place in there to assign an image/photo file as the background. I then applied that named view in a viewport. Very easy. Quote
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