Perform illuminance simulations of scenes to check lighting levels and better understand the effects of natural and artificial lighting in your design. This can help when seeking LEED certification for a building.
Render an Illuminance Rendering
- In My Renderings, select a project.
- Select an illuminance image.
- From the toolbar, click the
Render as Illuminance button
.
- If necessary, adjust render settings and click Render.
View an Illuminance Rendering
- In My Renderings, click an illuminance rendering thumbnail.
- Units of brightness are displayed in false color, including a legend indicating the number of incident Lux. The scale displayed is logarithmic, and ranges from 0 to the maximum illuminance detected in the scene. Available controls depend on the original application (for example, Autodesk Revit) from which the rendering originated.
