Solar incidence on an area
First Post. I am an architect with very little experience with Blender. I have been trying to rectify this over the last month as it seems a broad, very competent and customisable program. I have the aim of creating simple workflow models as well as more realistic renders. One of the workflow models I have been working on uses the Sun Position add-on to generate accurate shadow studies.
Yesterday with ChatGPT i investigated scripts and we developed and it wrote one (I have no scripting experience) connected to the sun position that modified the intensity and colour of the sun based on the time of day. It seems to work, I don't know how accurate it is.
Today I have been trying to develop one that I find very useful and is the topic of this post. There used to be an independent add-on to Sketchup that reported the ammount of sun on a surface based on hours per m2, and rendered an image of that information on the model: so different colours would indicate how many hours of sun a particular area recieved. This was very useful as a sketch indication for landscape planting or position of solar panels etc.
It seems that the script ChatGPT wrote for this will not fetch data from Sun Position add-on. Later it could be developed using epw weather data or solar radiation recieved but now it was just a simple calculation if sun had reached an area for a certain period of time.Can I share these with people on the forum so it can be corrected and listed as an add-on? Thanks!
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This website is for feature proposals, not for support in creating an addon. blenderartists.org would be better suited for that.
If by "listing as an add-on" you mean have your addon shipped with Blender by default, that's up to you first. But you need a functional addon that complies with Blender's addon inclusion process:
Process/Addons - Blender Developer Wiki
Which includes to
ensure there is continuous support for keeping your add-on working and fixing bugs as they appear.Thanks, sorry for posting in the wrong forum, I thought of posting the question in blenderartists before coming here! I posted it here because I think it would be a useful add-on, though as you point out, it requires quality control and continuous maintenance, which is far beyond my abilities. Hopefully, if it is found useful, someone competent will adopt it!
That can happen, and having a post on blenderartis.org is a great way to bring visibility and grab attention ;)
Don't hesitate to share the post link here too.
Here's The Link to that post: blenderartists.org/t/solar-incidence-on-an-area/1488875/1
They were very helpful. One of the posters gave me a link to a good, existing Add-on called "VI-Suite": One of the modules of that add-on does exactly what I was looking for. So thank you very much for the suggestion to post there!