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Xfrog Trees adopt colour of Skybox

Megan Loock
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Morning,

I would appreciate it if anyone could assist. I created a skybox around my area of interest and part of my skybox was below my ground level. The trees I have placed on my ground level shows a colour only when recording my path, almost as if it adopts the colour of that skybox.

I had 2 skyboxes each with a different image assigned. The one with the more blueish colour did not do it but the one with the orange colour showed it very clearly. I moved my skybox up as far as possible not to leave any open spaces between ground level and skybox, this made it a little better but there are still trees that show that colour.

Is there any way to fix this?

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    Hi Megan,

    I tried to look at you're attached file, only the area stays empty. If I try to download it I get the message: You do not have permission to view this directory or page.

    Regarding you're problem, you told that you use a skybox. Have you done this in the Environment Settings Toolbox (or the old way, by adding a sphere around the project)? I would prefer to do this in the Environment Settings Toolbox (Luxology Render Window - Luxology Environment Settings (alt-v)). Next to this you can add a Solar light and Skydome in the Light Setup Toolbox (Ambient and Flashbult: Off).

    By Changing the Lux in the Evironment Toolbox and the Intensity in the Solar toolbox you can determine the influence of them on the elements in the Rendering (less lux in environment is more influence of the color in the Solar and skydome toolbox).

    Does this help?
    Otherwise we can use the more brute force methods by Changing material properties of the x-frog trees.

    Regards Louis
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    You really should be using a Sky Cylinder or Sky Sphere and it sounds like you have placed geometry (box) for your sky box. Can you take a moment and read this blog I wrote years ago I think it might help you to understand how environments work with the Luxology render engine. http://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/microstation_visualization/b/luxology-blog/archive/2009/08/13/all-about-luxology-environments

  • 0 Offline in reply to Louis van Amerongen

    Hi Louis,

    I'm very new to Animation and setting up of environments. I used the old method of creating a sphere and assigning a sky image. My site is very big so doing anything within Luxology made my pc bomb out frequently.

    Here are some screen grabs to show what it looks like.

  • 0 Offline in reply to Megan Loock
    The Xfrog trees do not look like 3d models are you using a billboard image? If so are you using a TIFF file and not JPEG? I would expect to see what you are seeing if you had background transparency on using a JPEG. See the ragged edges around the trees in the image where you don't see the sky, the edges are black and not clean,

    Jerry

  • 0 Offline in reply to Jerry Flynn

    Hi Jerry,

    As far as I'm aware the trees are Xfrog 3D models. Below is a screen grab of tree without any environment. I loaded these trees from Bentley Xfrog Library.

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