{"id":26771,"date":"2020-06-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=26771"},"modified":"2020-06-05T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:09:01","slug":"solidworks-tech-tip-sunlight-environments-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2020\/06\/solidworks-tech-tip-sunlight-environments-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip &#8211; Sunlight Environments Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sunlight20environments20part20120-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sunlight20environments20part20120-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"949\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sunlight20environments20part20120-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text.jpg 1726w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sunlight20environments20part20120-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sunlight20environments20part20120-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-615x365.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sunlight20environments20part20120-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sunlight20environments20part20120-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-1536x911.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sunlight20environments20part20120-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-728x432.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 949px) 100vw, 949px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this special two-part Visualize Quick Tips, we cover the hidden but extremely powerful Sunlight environment type. Only available in Visualize Professional, this type of environment makes it super-easy to create realistic outdoor lighting \u2013 at any time of day! In this first of two videos, we\u2019ll show you how to set up a Sunlight environment type and how to adjust all the settings. We\u2019ll cover how to recreate the lighting at an exact time and place as well as how to use Sunlight environments to create interesting, artistic lighting.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFaoT-0fPNc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLiKqXuECiKNIakhZ87GzttyJbNDkt-_mZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube playlist<\/a> more helpful Visualize videos!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.solidworks.com\/community\/visualize\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USE THE VISUALIZE FORUM<\/a> to connect with the global Visualize Community for self-help support with common questions. Don\u2019t forget to share your Visualize images and animations on <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.solidworks.com\/thread\/111941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<\/a> Forum thread!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to use the Sunlight Environment and set up your scene using this photorealistic lighting tool.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2020\/06\/solidworks-tech-tip-sunlight-environments-part-1.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":26767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1577,35],"tags":[2058,144,1041],"class_list":["post-26771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks-visualize","category-tips-tricks","tag-sunlight","tag-tech-tips","tag-visualize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26777,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771\/revisions\/26777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}