Animating the sun

For timelipse video rendering, the sun must be animated to reflect realistic lighting and shadowing changes. NDunes' sun tool lets you define trajectories using recorded sun directions. For more details, you can see The sun tool.

Once sun trajectories have been created with the sun tool, they can can be drag and dropped in the timeline to create an animation track for the sun.

From the sun tool to the timeline

Note:

You can also drag and drop a single sun direction from the scene onto the timeline. This automatically creates a "still" trajectory, keeping the sun fixed in place, for example when you need it positioned precisely during a rendering.

If the sun trajectory is based on realistic sun directions - using actual dates, times, and GPS coordinates - and Use time is checked, the animation interpolates between the two specified datetimes. If the trajectory is defined from arbitrary sun positions instead, the interpolation is simply done between those positions.

Animating a rigged geometry

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