hendrik-thomas

Thank you all for such useful support! One more thing concerning the focus of a fresnel fixture. Is there any chance to soften a barn door cut in final quality render mode? It would be ever so great if diffusion filters would get drawn as they do in the real world, but unfortunately this doesn't work. One other option I can think of is to play around with beam and field angle size so that I do not need the barn doors at all to get that pretty soft fresnel beam edge. But how can I manage to aline the beam with the DS-edge of the stage when focusing a diagonal backlight?

Hi markdd, please accept my apology for replying that late, and thank you for your kind support and answer! I have double checked what you've said in the first place but couldn't find any misaligned body part. So your second message does make more sense to me. Do you know if this is a known and official Vectorworks bug which will be fixed in the near future? What would be the appropriate Vectorworks contact to get an answer on this if you doesn't know? I just don't want to guess when focusing a fixture. I also don't want to rerender my drawing every time I've adjusted one single shutter (and I have loads to focus!) It might be not a huge issue when you do a rough-and-about focus to test something, but it becomes very time consuming (and annoying, compare to the investment people have to spend for the software) when you want to produce a first class rendering for your client where guessing is not an option. I might don't see or understand the bigger picture (I really don't) but it would be ever so great to get a profund and official answers. Thanks again for your support!

Hello, I am getting an offset between shutter cuts and my rendered view (screenshot attached). It seams like that the beam/field lines doesn't draw in the right angle. In other words saying the lines do not match the fixtures lense train angle. So I am getting a deviation when rendering an certain view. Does anyone know what am I doing wrong or if I can manipulate a certain value somewhere to change that issue? I have tried a few different Vectorworks library fixtures from different brands without any change. I am working with Vectorworks 2018 SP2 R1. Any help is appreciated, thank you very much!