Setting the XMP Preferences

The following procedure helps you define the XMP preferences for the animation to be generated, and choose which editor parameters to use.

Note: The Virtual Lighting Animation Tool is in BETA mode for the current release.
Important: All parameters previously applied on the XMP in the Virtual Human Vision Lab or the Virtual Photometric Lab should work and be considered in the generation of the animation.

To set the XMP preferences:

  1. In the Virtual Lighting Animation tool, click Edit > Preferences.
  2. In the General section, define:

    • the Timeline duration in seconds.

      When you import an animation template file (*.csv or *.xlsx), the Timeline duration value is extracted from the template file.

    • the Editor between Virtual Photometric Lab and Virtual Human Vision Lab.

      The editor selected gives you access to specific parameters of the Preferences, and also determines what are the parameters from which Lab to use in the generation of the animation:
      • If Virtual Photometric Lab editor is selected, then the previously applied parameters in the Virtual Photometric Lab are used.
      • If Virtual Human Vision Lab editor is selected, then the previously applied parameters in the Virtual Human Vision Lab and the Virtual Photometric Lab are used.
  3. In the Animation parameters section, define the number of FPS to generate.
    Note: The more FPS you define, the more performance required to generate the animation.
  4. If you selected Virtual Photometric Lab, in the Virtual Photometric Lab parameters section:
    • For custom scale values, define the Min and Max of the XMP map.

    • To use the Min and Max scale from the XMP map, click Calculate Min/Max.

      The Min and Max correspond to the minimum and maximum luminance (cd/m²) calculated over the entire XMP map with all active sources considered at 100%, when no XMP filtering is applied.

  5. If you selected Virtual Human Vision Lab, in the Virtual Human Vision Lab parameters section, define the Adaptation type:
    • select Dynamic adaptation or Dynamic adaptation 2019 to enable the adaptation of the human eye.

    • select Local adaptation and set Maximum adaptation luminance to define the highest luminance value over the different configurations. By default, Maximum adaptation luminance corresponds to the maximum luminance calculated over the entire XMP map, such as the Max parameter to be set when the Editor selected is Virtual Photometric Lab.

      CAUTION: Maximum adaptation luminance is only available in the Virtual Lighting Animation Tool and does not correspond to the Luminance parameter (Local Adaptation) from the Human Vision parameter of the Virtual Human Vision Lab.
    For more information on the adaptation types, refer to Parameters of Human Vision.
  6. Click Apply.
The preferences are applied, and modifications will be visible in the timeline and the animation.