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There are several widely used instruments missing in the Spotlight (ADB, Niethammer, R&V) resources. I have created new symbols. They are placed in the Object Libraries folder in VW folder as regular documents containing the new symbols. They work fine in 2 and 3D, but when creating key to instrumentation, they dont show at all. They are listed in the inventory dialog (if used), however. This seems to be related to LANDMARK plant issues but I really dont get it. Could someone walk me trough this? I'm using Spotlight 11.5 in Os X 10.3.8 (finnish)

I tried to create a hybrid instrument of VL1000. Everything went fine untill I converted the images to symbol. The 2d part works fine, but the 3d part becomes transparent (fixture is visible in plan but not 3d). When in 3d, active symbols do have the black handles but nothing is there. Also, modifying of the 3d section of the hybrid is not possible any more: can't select a thing. Vhere do I go wrong? Treied several times, sometimes the 3d section is visible for a while......

quote: Originally posted by kmoore1: SpotLight does not currently do what WYSIWYG does with regards to visualization and console interaction and I wanted to make this extremely clear to people buying SpotLight. Our strength is in light plot and paperwork creation and management, whereas WYSIWYG is a strong visualization tool. The caveat in the manual is there to prevent people from having false expectations of the program that it is not designed to fulfill and then becoming frustrated / disappointed when it won't do what they expected. I would much rather have someone not purchase SpotLight because they find out it doesn't have the visualization capabilities they want, than to purchase it and either feel that its capabilities were mis-represented, or frustrated that they can't make it do what they want. SpotLight is first and foremost a production tool; it also has visualization capabilities. WYSIWYG is foremost a visualization tool; it also has production capabilities. That said, we are continuing to refine and develop our visualization tools. Integrating the visualization with the light plot is high on many people?s wish lists. I?ll make sure to add your vote to the list. I'm also finding it frustrating to "plot" everything twice. It would be so nice, if tere was just another box in the object info.... like "project gobo"

quote: Originally posted by lalcaraz: Kevin I am running Renderworks 9 and Spotlight 9.5 I tried the Final Quality Renderworks also but it did not work Thanks Lonnie I'm also having this problem. The blanc spot is projected without gobo image. In the object info, there is no gobo 1 or 2 fields at all. PS: I'm using a mac version, if it does matter.

quote: Originally posted by lalcaraz: Kevin I am running Renderworks 9 and Spotlight 9.5 I tried the Final Quality Renderworks also but it did not work Thanks Lonnie