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No rectangle. I don't see it on the plot anywhere. I didn't change anything, but did fill in some blank fields. Maybe that caused the problem. I deleted it in LW and added it again. This time I only put in a channel in LW and it seems ok. Thanks

I exported to LW and none of the fields were filled in, so I filled them in in LW. Going back to VW, the I-cue is now invisible. It seems to be there, at least in LW, but it's been hosed in VW. How do I get it to display again?

That worked. I went there before, but for some reason it wouldn't let me change it. Is there a difference between "Static Accessory" (which is the iris) and just plain old "Accessory?" Now that I've inserted it, how do I set the channel/dimmer? That is not in the Light Info Record.

2012

I selected the I-cue and right clicked. There is no "attach record" but there is an "attach..." that brings up a menu with "Light Info Record" as one of the options. That option is already checked, but I select it and click "OK." Nothing happens. So I uncheck it. Nothing happens. I go back and check it again. Nothing happens. I'm back where I started and the I-cue is still not working. When I select "Edit" I go to the 2D symbol (since I don't have a 3D) and under the "Data" tab, one of the Record Formats is "Light Info Record." That seems promising so I check it and a bunch of empty "Record fields" appear below. One of those is "Device Type" I must be close on the trail! But it won't let me fill in any device type. This seems to be an output only field. Clicking, double-clicking, right-clicking all have no effect. When I click the iris accessory and go to the edit, it shows object info with the type "Static Accessory." It has some other fields filled in too. I still can't edit from this menu, but I can see it has been updated. I'm confident in one of the hundreds of menus there is a way to do it, but none of the obvious things that I would try do anything whatsoever. Is this the one where you have to turn the monitor upside down and press the cntrl-shift-tab-esc-del simultaneously? I still don't see any way to access the Lighting Symbol Maintenance for the item in the Resource Browser.

It's never too late. I learn something from every show. I imported the I-cue for some earlier show, but I don't recall where I found it. Next show it will be fixed... I hope. Spotlight > Reports > Lighting Symbol Maintenance doesn't work for me. Do you know what it is/was for 2012? I found I can right-click on the instance of the I-cue > Edit, select "Light Information tab" and then change it to accessory, but that only works for the one instance, not the general case. Right-clicking on the accessory in the resource browser doesn't get anywhere. There is an "Edit" option, but that doesn't lead to the maintenance page. It doesn't seem to be in the spotlight menu. Google and Bing can't find it. I'm sure it's blatantly obvious with five different ways to get there, but I just don't see it.

As best I can determine (and I'm a VW novice) the label legend is on a layer with scale 1:48, the same layer as the instruments. Anything I select is on that layer. The text style doesn't seem to have a layer associated with it. All my layers have the same scale.

Here's the show file. ATW1.vwx

Sure. Can you point me to the procedure to send a test symbol?

Thanks. I was clicking outside the instrument, but I forgot the third click for the association. That fixed it! Oops... that fixed it for the iris. I am trying to add an I-cue and it didn't fix that. It didn't fix it for a template symbol either. 😞 Could it be that the instrument is a 2D/3D symbol and the accessory is 2D? I see the iris is a 2D/3D symbol, but the Icue and template are 2D.

Thanks for the input. I tried to start over and decided it was more trouble than I thought. When I have more time, I'll try again. Meanwhile, I'm keeping the old file and I decided to create a new Label Legend. Surprise! It works. I can't modify the old ones, but I can create new ones. As I did this, I found several new problems. The gobo1 field did not go to the position I chose; it was overwriting the channel number. I played with it, but no luck. Then I moved it to the side of the instrument instead of the top and bingo, it displayed correctly. Then I edited again an moved it to the top where it was initially, and it now worked just fine. I don't know what I did to cause or to fix the problem, but it's fixed. I tried to use the Text Styles for the color, dimmer, channel, etc. For some reason the font size comes up at 0.2 pt even though the style says 8pt or 10pt or something bigger. It copies the other things from the style correctly and when I change the font size, it works ok except the text is no longer linked to the Text Style. I thought it must be a problem with the text style, but when I went to edit it, everything is correct in the style. I don't know what makes this wrong, but I think whatever it is may be related to the initial problem. I recall a while back editing the label legend and getting the text style problem. I think I saved it anyway to see what would happen, and then when it didn't work I tried to edit it again I ran into problems selecting it, etc. I played around with it a lot trying to get it to work, but I think the damage was confirmed once I save the label legend with the funny text style problem. Maybe I need to replace all the Text Styles too. If so, it's still better than creating the whole theater plan from scratch. Update: I tried to create a text style from the text in the label legend and it created it in 8 pt, but applied it to the font at 0.2 pt and it promptly shrunk to a point. I guess I can't use text styles. The style itself is 8pt, but when it gets applied, it shows up as 0.2pt. More update: The original problem was caused by the instrument symbol being assigned to the None class, which wasn't displayed. Displaying it fixed the problem.

Apparently more than one file is corrupted since I went back to an old show and I have the same problem. I fear I have to start the drawing over from scratch. Making legends in another file and importing them isn't practical long term. Maybe that will clean up some other problems too. Is there any way to copy portions of an old file into a new one without having to create everything from scratch?

I thought double clicking the accessory activated the tool. When I do that and click the instrument it inserts the accessory. I have to click a second time to set the orientation. However, when I do that, the accessory doesn't seem to be associated with the instrument. It's in the drawing, but not associated with the instrument.

I tried to insert an iris in a S4 instrument using the symbol insertion tool, but it doesn't get attached to the instrument. When I move the instrument, it just stays there. Same thing for other accessories. They appear on the drawing, but not associated with the instrument. I double-click on the iris to get the tool. It does the same thing if I drag the iris from the Resources panel. What am I doing wrong?

When I edit the Label Legend layout, there is no reference symbol, just a vertical line where the symbol ought to be. In some legends I can select the line, others not. When I can select it, I tried to replace the instrument, but that didn't fix it and caused every instance of that legend to have its instrument replaced. Undo didn't fix it. I had to go clean it up manually. When I start a new file, it works correctly. 2D labels VW2012

Somehow my label legend manager has lost the ability to choose the Lighting Instrument Layout Symbol The Choose button is grayed out. My resource browser still has instruments and seems to be ok. I loaded an old file and it has the same problem, so the problem is not with the file itself. I started with a blank file from scratch and I can choose an instrument, so it is somehow related to some contamination I did while using my file. Any idea what I might have done to cause this problem? The instrument no longer shows up in the edit layout window, although it used to show up there. Sometimes there is a single vertical line that might have some relevance to an instrument. In one case, I was able to select the line and attempt to replace the instrument. Although I could select an instrument from the resource browser, it didn't appear in the label legend. How can I get the instrument back? The label legend still places the labels around the instrument when I use it, though sometimes the labels seem rather garbled, i.e. not exactly where I thought they should appear. Thanks.

How can I edit a symbol to change the layer? I can change the class in OIP, but the layer is grayed and won't let me change it. I'm referring to the symbol definition, not an instance of the symbol. How can I change the layer for the symbol?

Thank you! That is indeed the problem.

Only the design items in the active view are shown in layer plane view. The other design items remain in screen plane. What do I do to get the other design layers to render in layer plane? I also notice that the option to select the plane for the design items isn't (always) showing. No doubt one of the many idiosynchronicities of VW that I have overlooked, but I've spent long enough poring over the documentation and menus trying to figure it out, so I'm giving up and trying here.

Sorry for the dumb question, but I searched for Morpheus fader and found nothing so I'm asking, How can I attach a Morpheus fader to an instrument? Do I need to design my own symbol? I'm sure lots are around, but I search in vain. ***** Never mind. Found it in the manufacturer files.

I have resolved the problem. It is two different problems. The default opacity got set to 33%. Reset this to 100% and that fixed "graying" problem. The FC-1 cyc instrument is composed of lines only, so it will not hide the pipe, Edited this to use rectangles with a fill and that fixed the problem being below the pipe.

The instrument that works and the one that doesn't seem to be identical. They are both on the same layer and same class, both of which are active. The layer order is above the pipe, though the new instrument displays beneath it and the old one displays correctly on top. If I turn off the pipe layer, the instrument is still grayed.

I have placed a lighting instrument (S4) on a light position using the spotlight instrument insertion tool For some reason, the instrument appears beneath the lighting position and is faded (looks like it's grayed). As far as I can tell, everything about the instrument is ok, it just doesn't display properly. I earlier inserted some instruments and these all display fine; they are full brightness and on top of the pipe. I can copy these older instruments onto a pipe and they work fine when copied. However, the instruments inserted by selecting an instrument in the resource browser and inserting it don't display correctly. What did I do that makes these instruments dim? When I click on the ones that display correctly and the ones that don't, I cannot see any difference in the object info. They are both on the lighting position, they both have their fields filled in, etc. They are both on the same layer and class, although the new one looks like it's on a grayed layer. I tried send to front and it didn't help. Both the instrument and its data are grayed.

When I have tried placing the focus point on a wall, I get a flat area in the x-y plane that cannot have a z-component. It will not let me rotate this flat x-y focus point to the x-z or y-z plane. Maybe it should be called the focus plane tool, because it's not really a point at all. If the light is close to the same z-zxis as the focus point, it doesn't draw the beam well at all.

Is it possible to assign a focus point to a wall or other non-horizontal area? If so, how? If not, how do you aim and visualize the beam on a wall?