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PVA - Admin

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  1. I attempted this once and failed in Renderworks. From what I understand, to accomplish this you need to be able to map two sides of the same poly (whatever the glass surface is made of) with different textures and have both faces occlude one another. This is possible in some rendering engines I have experimented with but I am fairly confident that we don't have that level of control in Vectorworks.

  2. I agree with you on principal, but this is not something I am going to be able to change. Once a version has gotten it's last service pack (I strongly believe this to be the case for 2018 barring any major OS changes in the very near future), there is nothing more that will ever be corrected in it. 

  3. Yup, glow texture on a small extrude is the closest I've gotten. I tried a few times to get an actual functional laser effect that would bounce accurately off mirrors, but the lit fog needed to show the volumetric light beam only appears as a coherent beam before the first reflection, not to mention the significant increase in render time needed from using Lit Fog.

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  4. 7 minutes ago, RKilpatrick said:

    Hello Jim, Since my last post it has started happening again, with the best compatibility fix. Any advice for us Radeon folks?

    Apologies, this is possible on the AMD side but I only have standardized steps for Nvidia, AMD has a few different controller applications and the settings appear differently per card sometimes as well. I would check with the machine's manufacturer on how to ONLY use the dedicated card, especially in a multi monitor setup if that is even possible on that hardware, which is not always the case.

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  5. Anyone encountering issues, please feel free to reply to this thread.

    We won't be publicly replying unless new information is needed, but we will either be handling your issue directly in the background or contacting your local distributors so that they can do so if you post here.

  6. Most likely you have either Snap to Grid or Snap to Angle enabled in the snapping palette. Disable these and you should be able to move/rotate objects freely. You can also hold down the ~ key to temporarily suspend all snapping of any kind.

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  7. OH misunderstood, apologies. Yes then it would be a feature request to add Shadow and Outline as text effects on Windows. Looks like on Mac they're supported by the OS's font handling system but on Windows it isn't included by default and has to be added per-app (Word will allow it, but Notepad wont, as an example).

  8. 20 hours ago, Kevin McAllister said:

    I'm surprised that the options don't show as greyed out if they're not available on a PC. @Jim Wilson do you know why that is? Hidden options are not that easy to troubleshoot....


    This option is controlled per-character on PC, so you can't apply super/subscript to a whole text object, but if you edit the text object and select all or some of the characters, you can use those formatting options. I suspect this is because super/sub display is generally relative to normal text.

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