BartHays

Yup, more reasons why AI is not ready for professional use in tools like VW. When using other AI apps, I've seen the "Getty Images" logo appear instead of a signature. So, you know that model was trained using illegally scraped images.

The VW AI Visualizer is in its early stages, I would expect it to be behind the more developed user interfaces like Midjourney. I am sure we will see VW open up more control options in future releases. (I'd love to see support for training an LoRA with our companies existing renderings, sketch style, etc.) In the mean time, you may want to look into the the more open source solutions. Automatic1111, ComfyUI, and Invoke all offer stand alone packages you can run on your local machine, with a daunting set of control options and incredibly powerful customizations. I like InvokeAI, it is free to use and has a mission to create tools for creatives, not just the general masses. Of course, you have to have a pretty strong graphics card to do all of this on your local machine. Bart

I do find that AI can have a great sense of humor. Here is my favorite image from a prompt about clean water in the bathroom

Nope. VW lacks this functionality. Many of us have made many requests for a very many needed improvements in texture mapping controls.

This seems like a great opportunity for a Marionette Object??

@Jesse Cogswell this is super cool, thank you. I am noticing that I can only change the column spacing once. If I set it to 1" it works, if I change my mind and set it back to .25" Nothing happens. Also, I can move the last column to a new Sheet and it stays as part of the Upstream set. But, if the text increases and I need another column, it gets placed on the first sheet, (referencing the First column?), If it could be referencing the position of the previous column, It could continue to span sheets as needed. I realize this might get unwieldy, just playin with it for now. Cheers! Bart

@vectorworks will you please pay Jesse for making your product better.

@jcogdellReset all plugin objects, and Batch Convert seemed to have no effect. Nothing I do to those Extrudes, changes the unwanted behavior. Everything I do to recreate the Extrude works as expected.

Yup, this has been asked and answered before, Your Extrude function seems to create Top, Bottom and SIDES, mapping, all Sides are seen as the same surface. Convert to an generic solid to get Per Face mapping back. I don't have any version of VW older than VW 22 but I don't think this was the behavior in when Per Face texture mapping was introduced. I think each face of a Extrude could be mapped separately. but it appears VW has made unified (SIDES) the default behavior of extrudes. Update and correction,: If I create the same profile from scratch in VW 2024 it behaves as expected (Per Face texturing works) All I can say is there is something odd happening with your Extrudes, they seem to be reverting to pre VW 21, mapping parameters. I can understand your frustration. I'll play with you file a little and see if I find anything else. This may sound silly but can you walk us through how you created this simple shape? It seems you experience is similar across multiple machines/versions. But we don't get the same results wen we try it. Or even when we copy and past your original Polyline and re-extrude Yet I can see the problem min your file. Bart

Totally agree, this is basic functionality that should exist - along with better text editing/formatting. There is a super dumb workaround: place your text on a design layer in one giant skinny textbox and use cropped VPs on a sheet layer to "view" the text in chunks. But TBH, we typically lay out the text columns in a word processor and publish a PDF then link the PDF pages to our VW doc. So, as the PDF updates so do the VW sheets with referenced PDFs on them. but hey, we have the AI Visualizer! I wonder if it can format text - with bullets and numbering too?

Lovely drawings Gal! Maybe we can help. First here is what I get: My first guess is that your "old intel Mac" no longer meets the minimum requirements. But that is just a guess. I noticed 4 lights as part of a symbol. I had to move those to a class and turn that class of to get the shaded rendering to look correct. They were all very dark. You do have 2 viewport stacked on top of each other. but that doesn't seem to be a problem. So I am going back to my earlier guess. See if there is an update for your graphics card driver, make sure the graphics card meets the minimum requirements I think it is OpenGL 2.1 for VW 2019??

It is not clear what you are after. Please put your OS, graphics card, and version of Vectorworks in the post so we have some context. And, if you can, share the file. It looks like you have a Hidden Line viewport, not open GL/Shaded VP. Maybe the background VP is Shaded and the foreground is Hidden Line? Maybe you have an Open GL/Shaded viewport on top of a Hidden Line viewport with 2 different scales?? If I had to guess, it looks like your graphics card got confused and a reboot might fix it. Bart

Seems to work for me. Have you tried the ol' quit and restart VW?? Bart

You could try an "Artistic-Lines and Shadows" style to get the curtains: The floor will still be a trick, but two stacked viewports might get you there.

Great, thank you. I've become a fan of Invoke. FWIW. Though all of my comments about using AI professionally stand. Until the courts sort out copyright issues and the AI companies compensate creators for training the models on unlicensed work, I can't ethically embrace AI as a professional tool. - But I want to be fully informed and proficient when the time comes. Bart