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Posted by cerisola at Jan 16, 2015, 2:23:21 PM
Tilted track light
Hi everybody. My 1st post.
I am very impressed with the Sweet Home package.

Now I am modeling a garret (or attic, not sure what's the correct word in english, I mean a room right under the roof, with sloping ceiling).
I successfully drew sloping walls, etc..
Now I want to add some lights. I need to place a track light on the sloping ceiling, oriented in such way that it is as tilted as the ceiling.
A base model like the "Track lights" included in the downloaded Portable version 4.5 is fine, but it is not tilted.
So I placed the base "Track lights" furniture, exported to OBJ, imported back, tilted at the 2nd step of the import wizard, placed.
The result looks fine, but now it is a piece of furniture, not a light source. When I create a photo, no light is sourced. See example .
You can see that the light bar is projecting its own shadow, not sourcing light.

This was described by Thread "Include light in Export to OBJ format".

Is there a way to place a tilted light track which also sources light?

Thanks for your help!