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    Lighting Change

    in Rendering

    Posted

    Great! I got the shadows back and they look good. My white walls (where in shadow) are a bit blue, so my first instinct is to try to change the emitter temperature?

    Lighting Change

    in Rendering

    Posted

    You're right, Jim! Thanks.

    So here's the follow-up:

    Is there a way to make the room brighter without upping the ambient lighting? There are 4 windows and a pair of french doors, so I know this room would get pretty bright in real life with just the sun.

    Lighting Change

    in Rendering

    Posted

    I'm rendering an interior view. When I first rendered it, there were nice shadows cast through the windows from my heliodon. Later I went in and introduced a few lights to the scene.

    I lost the beautiful shadows, and when I delete the lights, the shadows are there but very subtle. I think I remember reading something about renderworks detecting light sources and adjusting to them, but cannot find the thread.

    Any ideas how I can revert to the original lighting? I haven't changed the heliodon. The background is a physical sky (also not changed).

    parapet wall

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Hi Peter,

    Thanks! That screenshot was misleadingly simple. The parapet we're working on will have mission style curlycues, so I don't think I can replicate them with a wall.

    Amelia

    parapet wall

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Hey guys,

    The attached screenshot is a distilled version of a problem I'm having.

    I need to show a decorative parapet wall in my hidden line elevations, but that horizontal line won't go away. There are windows in the wall below that need to show up in plan. I tried making a wall projection, but it won't center, as it's the full width of the wall.

    Any suggestions?

    Beam of Light

    in Rendering

    Posted

    Can you get a beam of light to show up without having Vectorworks Spotlight? I'm trying to render a projector in a classroom. I have "lit fog" checked for the spotlight I created, but nothing happens.

    Thanks,

    Amelia

    VW 2016

    Mac

    Generating usable floorplans for roof spaces

    in Architecture

    Posted

    In another thread, there is a discussion on eclipsing the industry. Maybe they can start with something like this first. Adjustable floor plan heights is what we need, but with the current mash-up it doesn't quite work and loft plans take too long to produce.

    +1 adjustable top/plan viewport heights (that don't cut through openings that aren't at that height)

    Framing Plan How-to?

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Is it possible to have VW sort of ignore openings in walls?

    I've struggled with this for a while. On framing plans, my firm conventionally shows walls below without gaps where doors and windows are. (This may be atypical?)

    We're trying to take more and more of our drawings as viewports from the model, but I've been unable to gracefully do this with framing plans. Please check out the attached image. I just cover gaps in the annotations layer.

    Please tell me if you have any ideas! Thanks!

    We're using Vectorworks Architect 2016.

    Door Schedule Sorting

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Can anyone tell me how to get my door schedule to sort like this: list each door type once, no matter how many there are, and the height, width, and thickness show up for one door, like 2'-8" x 8'-0" x 1 3/4".

    When I list them all individually, these dimensions show as intended. But right now, when I summarize redundant doors, the fields for the doors' dimensions are multiplied by the number of instances of the door. Say there are 3 of those 2'-8" x 8'-0" doors; they show up as 8'-0" x 24'-0". How is this done?

    Thanks!

    Normal File Size

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    The file was started with a template I created in VW 2014 I think. Sounds like that could be one of the issues? So much good advice in this thread.

    I mostly use textures from the VW subscription libraries, but if I make some from scratch I'll be sure to save the image really small. And look there if I experience a jump in file size.

    MK: Follow-up question about this one:

    Is 200 MB large for a VW file?

    1. Don't use multiple extrude objects. Many times I've had a laggy file that got faster when all the multiple extrudes were changed other types of objects.

    Take for example my standing seams. Would you just convert them to Generic Solids?

    Jim, my specific trouble on this is with a realistic colors white axonometric viewport with hidden line foreground (not sure if that's the same as shaded polygon). It had been updating in reasonable time (6 minutes or so, while the perspective projections of the same model in the same render style took only about 2, and still do.) Now it takes about 40, with lots of time spent on Indirect Lighting. It's just this one viewport. The other axon from the other side, on the same sheet with the same size and settings, takes 6 minutes.

    When I change to Fast Renderworks with hidden line foreground, it takes less than 2 minutes.

    Normal File Size

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hey Guys.

    Is 200 MB large for a VW file?

    Thanks,

    Amelia

    27" iMac

    3.4 gHz intel core i7

    16 GB memory

    VW 2015 sp4

    Here's some background if you have time:

    We work mainly on single family houses, but our files often get clunky as the design gets developed. We're getting into the habit of modelling everything in 3D - standing seam roofs (with seams modeled), a couple of VB visual trees, some mild custom trim work, a heliodon. Pretty simple I think. I purge the file once in a while.

    Say we have a file that's got a site plan sheet, 2 floor plan sheets, 2 elevation sheets, 5 wall section viewports, 5 rendered viewports (mostly low quality white shaded renderings). Any reason viewport updates would get very significantly slower as the file is used over the course of a project?

    This thing happens where VW seems to freeze immediately after you press update, the mouse thing spins, and 20 minutes later the viewport is updated, but you can't do anything in the meantime and sometimes it never finishes. It's just hard to figure out what's going on.

    Walkthroughs

    in Architecture

    Posted

    True, when I try to swoop around in the sky with the move along path animation, it kind of bounces from view to view and I guess that's something I won't be able to fix.

    But so far I like it for walkthroughs where the viewer height is consistent. Also, with the screen capture method, the mouse pointer is distracting. (Can that be hidden?)

    Walkthroughs

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Thanks!

    That's a lot of really helpful information.

    I am using a Mac, and I'm playing around with the QuickTime now. I think it will do the trick for the time being! And soon I'll try Cinema 4D.

    Walkthroughs

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Hi guys,

    We're trying to figure out if 3d walkthroughs are feasible for our office. Sorry for the amateur language (I've seen some posts that are way over my head). I am hoping someone will be able to explain the current state of saving and/or exporting 3D walkthroughs and flyovers.

    1. I think I understand the walkthrough tool well enough. What I'd like to do is save what is going on on my screen. I'd be happy with saving it in VW kind of like a viewport or saved view or something. Do I need a plugin? A script? Some sort of screen recording program?

    2. Is OpenGL the only rendering option?

    Thanks!

    Amelia

    Using VW 2015

    wall styles: what would you do?

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Domer, I struggle with the same issue. Alan's suggestion is good, but I dislike such manual methods because a) it clutters the drawing and b) it needs to be moved or reshaped separately from the wall it is representing.

    Maybe someone else will pop in with an easy answer I'm unaware of, but if not, do you think there's room for the space tool to have a role in interior finishes? I never use the space tool, so probably I'm way off and there are a million reasons this wouldn't work. But it might allow us to keep wall types to a minimum and assign interior finishes by room. Wish list?

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