Hi there,
I’m fairly new to Sweet Home 3D but have successfully been able to create a really sweet 3D render for Home Assistant, where I intend to stack images on top of each other, bottom one with all lights off and then one image per light above this, with transparency set that only let the lit parts through.

Works really well, but...

When I need to change something in the house, I need to rerender all images again. This is of course doable, but I need to do around 30 renders and I’ve also found point of view to be a bit shaky (or maybe I’m just handling it wrong)

What I’m wondering is:

1. Can I automate to render one image for each light in my home, where only that particular light is on with a brightness I’ve decided? In the next l render, another light is on and the previous off

2. Since it’s very important for me that every image has the exact same proportions, rotation, zoom etc, I would like to know the best way to really lock it down to the pixel? It’s very easy to mistakenly rotate the image (from bird view perspective) just so slightly and sometimes it seems point of view isn’t restoring that correctly. It also seems very important that the window containing the 3D render is exactly the same size, so someone as clumsy as myself can easily break things.

3 For me, it would make more sense to be able to set the point of view to the actual object (house), rather than the house + background. Doable?

Hope someone can give me some advice. And hey... what an AMAZING software 😍

For your lights, a plug-in could render from the same point of view for each of their states (all lights on, all lights off, light #1 on only, etc.).