and experienced the problem noted by others of AC lights becoming 'black holes' and sucking light in the Artlantis model. Well Don, I'm stumped! AC lights used to export with the model, but I'm experiencing the same behavior as you now: the checkbox is not available, and only the sun gets exported from 9.0, 8.1 and even 7.0! I know I used to do this all the time. How do I get Archicad to allow me to export lights to Artlantis? I have been painfully building and placing them in Artlantis. So my assumption was that I could not import lights into Artlantis. But when I save my 3D model as an artlantis file, the option for Archicad lights is 'grayed out'. Thanks for the tip - it will certainly save time. but it is one way to work around the limitation. then go into the ATL file and copy the lighting parameters from one of your known 'good' lights onto all of the new multiplied lights.Ī hassle, not the way it should be, etc., etc. Since lights have names, the trick is to multiply your lights in AC to get the positions where you want. (If you add or delete lights in the ATL text, be sure to adjust the light count!) The number of lights follows the CDATA (12 here), and you can see what each light's parameters look like. For example, here is part of one of my ATL files - the lamps appear towards the end of the file: There are tricks (talked about a long time ago on escribe) with Artlantis, since the ATL file (and old OPT DB files) are text and can be edited. Try creating a string of ceiling mounted spots. That said, I have Artlantis 4.5, and the fact that you cannot simply duplicate an existing light source (think multiply, drag a copy, or simply cut & paste) is a bad joke. Light Works: Fast and easy creation of lights, but adjust/render is not feasible. In summary:Īrtlantis: Real-time review of lighting changes, tedious creation of lights. My Artlantis rendering would have been much better if I had added more spots, but I got so tired of manually copying all the light settings that I gave up.Īnyway, I've attached two renderings (LW one will be in another post), one with LW, the other with Artlantis. Not too mention that once you set up complicated lighting, the LW rendering engine will often hang. With interior renderings, I REALLY need to be able to see the lighting adjustment results in real-time. No matter how fast the LW engine is, adjust/render adjust/render adjust/render is not a feasible way to work. However, spending 10AM yesterday to 3AM today working on an interior rendering has convinced me to stick to my old rule of using Archicad for exterior and Artlantis for interior renderings. Rob, that is exactly what I am looking for.