Shadow bake option

A small thing but useful. An option / toggle to bake (or suspend recalc) your shadows, rather than recalc when changing camera position etc so you can check how your shadows look from diff angles or make a small change without having to wait for recalc with every slight movement. I realise you can turn off and on but having a persistent shadow bake at the users discretion would be very useful for archviz, shadow studies etc.

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Have you considered TIG’s shadow projector? You can just move the shadow, save it (project it to surface), move and repeat.
https://sketchucation.com/plugin/1292-tig_shadowprojector
See example of saving Steve’s shadow.

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Nice idea for simple stuff! I will deffo use it. I was thinking larger scale, particularly for architectural uses. That method potentially would add a lot of geometry to the model

For sure…but you it auto-groups it and you can save externally after creating as I’m sure you won’t need it in there all the time.

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