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TomWhiteLight

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  1. I think it is expected behaviour, you would never want to manually number 429 lighting devices! This is probably why no one has stumbled across this before.

     

    Better hardware may help but training everyone up would be cheaper than buying new machines.

     

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  2. OK - So you need to make a selection of lighting devices prior to Spotlight Numbering - Forgetting to make a selection first is causing the crash. You can use 'Manual' by not making a selection first...

     

    Just looking into this now...

     

    OK so when I opened the file I noticed that the layer options were set to 'Show, Snap, Modify others'

     

    When you ran the command, Spotlight Numbering was seeking every lighting device on the drawing (All 429 of them) my hardware which is average struggled to execute this. As a general workflow tip you should usually work in Grey, Snap Others.

     

    This stops the crashing, If you have to work across multiple layers at the same time then make irrelevant layers invisible.

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  3. This could be a one drive issue. We have done lots of testing with dropbox but not one drive.

     

    In theory It shouldn't make any difference providing they have installed one drive and they are not uploading a new version each time?

     

    Vectorworks Cloud Services file sharing came out with SP3 and also works perfectly for VSS customers.

  4. Hi Michael,

     

    So as far as I am aware the reference should be in the same root folder as the VWX file, TBH I would put it in the same folder.

     

    Also The path should be relative not absolute.

     

    You should also cache the file to avoid losing it and then update the reference as and when you need to.

     

    Best wishes

     

    Tom W

     

  5. Hi @Kevin Jones

     

    You will find in the resource manager under City Theatrical Accessories some safer sidearms....

     

    Content are working on more, I have some doughty UK metric stuff.

     

    In most cases the Side Arms are attached to the lighting device and so therefore making them an accessory is a good solution. However, In the UK and Europe most of the Boom/De-rig arms travel with the lighting position and I would call them rigging accessory's or similar. So having the choice to do both would be good.

     

    Screenshot 2021-04-22 at 18.55.42.png

     

    With regards to schematic workflows have you seen this?

     

    https://university.vectorworks.net/mod/scorm/player.php?scoid=898&cm=1006&currentorg=articulate_rise

     

     

     

  6. hmmm, So I was able to get this to work with the light object tool, have a look at the settings in this file, the only things I changed were the renderworks style and the edit light info of the lighting device.

     

    I removed realistic fall off, I would reccomend smooth, just remember this impacts output in a big way.

     

    I also unchecked caustic photons only and set caustics to low.

     

    As you can see it does not work from the Spotlight lighting device, we will need to investigate this further.

     

    I believe lit fog only emits from the light object so I am not sure if it would be visible in the reflected light. I achieved something similar to this recently  by creating an extrude with a cloud like transparent texture. The light beam illuminated the texture alot like haze in the real world.

     

     

    Light off mirror error.vwx

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  7. Which mode is it?

     

    I will forward on internally. It may take some time to update the vision fixture so you would be best advised to invert the zoom value in ETC Nomad.

     

    In ETC Nomad create a copy of the fixture mode

    in the zoom field change the home value to 255

     

    Patch your fixtures to the new type when switching to augment patch them to the old type.

     

    Best wishes

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