This comprehensive video tutorial guides you through performing Outdoor Comfort Analysis in LadyBug tools 1.8. It leverages the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) to analyze outdoor comfort, but with an added twist you'll learn how to incorporate a 3D model for a more nuanced analysis that considers shading from surrounding buildings.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro and Channel Member Shoutout
2:05 Weather Data
3:41 UTCI
8:14 MRT
10:33 Humantosky Relationship
21:44 Common Mistake Explained
28:28 Test Period
32:45 Connecting everything
40:43 Useful readymade Stats


The first part dives into the setup process. You'll see how to use the LadyBug Human to Sky Relationship component to calculate sky exposure at various points on your site. The video also tackles challenges associated with large datasets and software limitations, offering workarounds to ensure a smooth workflow. To optimize computational time, you'll learn how to strategically limit the analysis period.

Part two focuses on processing and visualizing the results of your UTCI analysis. It addresses the complexities of working with large datasets generated by the Human to Sky Relationship component and demonstrates data manipulation techniques to convert them into usable averages for each point. To gain valuable insights, you'll be shown how to create a spatial heatmap that visualizes outdoor comfort across your entire site.

The video goes beyond basic analysis by exploring how to leverage weather data to identify design days (representative average days) and extreme hot/cold weeks. This empowers you to perform further analysis based on these specific timeframes. Finally, you'll see how to use these custom periods to analyze outdoor comfort for particular times of day or weeks, giving you a deeper understanding of how your design performs under different conditions.

By the end of this twopart video, you'll be wellequipped to perform Outdoor Comfort Analysis in LadyBug tools 1.8, from setting up the analysis to processing and visualizing the results for a comprehensive understanding of outdoor thermal comfort in your project.