Geographic Sun on LuxBlend2.5?

[camara]

Is there plans for porting the Geographic Sun of Luxblend2.49 to 2.5? I work in Archviz and this is a very useful tool. It would be a shame to drop this feature.

[dougal2]

Not directly.

I think it should become a standalone addon in its own right, though.

[dougal2]

I ported the code into a new addon in blender bf-extensions/contrib :
https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-exte ... cal_sun.py

[camara]

I ported the code into a new addon in blender bf-extensions/contrib :
https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-exte ... cal_sun.py

You already did the addon??? That's fast!! Thanks a lot, dougal2!!
A standalone addon is also great, because it makes it available to others users that don´t use Luxrender but use Blender for arch-viz. I think that this is so useful for who want to use blender in architecture that should be greatly advertised in Blenderartists forums and others sites.
The only glitch I noticed on the addon is that in Ubuntu Blender shows the two update buttons but on Windows doesn't. I tried to different builds and nothing shows.

[dougal2]

I also had to update part of blender py libs to make the buttons work, so you need to update blender itself to use it properly.

[camara]

Sorry, dougal2, I'm an artist not a programmer and my English is not famous. I didn't understand what you mean. I use the lasted builds from graphicall and don´t know what or how to update.

[dougal2]

In that case, you'll need to wait until the the builds on graphicall are updated with the changes I made yesterday.

[camara]

Just experimented with a new build and it works great. Tanks again!
Do you mind if I make a post on BlenderArtists about this addon? Like i said before, this is very good for archviz and should be advertised.

[dougal2]

Do you mind if I make a post on BlenderArtists about this addon?.

Of course not!
Bear in mind though, that the addon is largely the work of other people (with respect to the actual sun calculations), I've only re-packaged it in Blender-2.5 form

[camara]

It´s done.
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=210500