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TGNYC

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  1. My boss just upgraded us. Now I have a rendering to get done and can not figure out how to render a spotlight on a stage. I've tried the settings from online help, but also see that I am supposed to click the "LIGHT ON" box in Object Info...alas-there is no longer this option!? How do i turn lights on and render???

    Please help quick1 best,t

  2. I'm trying to generate a 2 or 3 scene quicktime movie that shows a color change in line lights-i did it successfully on a small scale and it was a nice smooth shift over 5 second from blue to magenta...now i have a rendering with several lights that for the life of me i can't figure out the up/down/hold time sequencing. Generally I assign my three scenes(blue/magenta/teal) and then animate the first scene with a 5/5/5 count and the last scene as a 5/5/5 assuming that the 5 sec. hold is between scenes-but nothing happens...the blue is continous thru 15 secs. The closest i've gotten is a race thru colors in one second and holding in the last scene for 4...Can anyone clarify the timing definitions!!!?

  3. Hey Man,

    VW 12.5 comes with stock lighting lamps/bulbs in the resource library (lamps-accurate) that you can choose to plop into your 3Dspace and render with "real" lighting...choose from fluorescents/halogen, etc. Another good tool(s) to look into is CONVERT TO LINE OR AREA LIGHT, which is quick and easy. best,t

  4. Eric is right, you can "render" the beam, but can't turn it on or you get that error-still a little frustrating. I was told by a VW tech that it can't figure the math going into infinity...but why can't they put a limit on that??? I constantly need to check photometric angles from low, front or side positions for fashion shows and no can do...c'mon!

  5. I'm trying to generate a 2 or 3 scene quicktime movie that shows a color change in line lights-i did it successfully on a small scale and it was a nice smooth shift over 5 second from blue to magenta...now i have a rendering with several lights that for the life of me i can't figure out the up/down/hold time sequencing. Generally I assign my three scenes(blue/magenta/teal) and then animate the first scene with a 5/5/5 count and the last scene as a 5/5/5 assuming that the 5 sec. hold is between scenes-but nothing happens...the blue is continous thru 15 secs. The closest i've gotten is a race thru colors in one second and holding in the last scene for 4...Can anyone clarify the timing definitions!!!?

  6. Hey Kevin,

    OK, more issues...I don't think it's an ESP problem. We've discovered this: Our office is mostly MAC's with the exception of a the Sony Vaio running Windows NT 5.1 for ESP. When we open the file on the PC something happens that corrupts the file(s). I have tried to save it back to our office server(a MAC), at which point it shows up as some crazy text file-not recognizable by VW12...I've tried this with two separate files and get the same result. I've tried bypassing our server by saving directly to a USB memory stik and opening directly from there-when i do that i get the standard message that the file was created from an older version (yet it wasn't)...when I click ok to open in the "new" version of VW it says it is an unrecognizable file! So seems like something is happening between the MAC and Windows platforms??? I absolutely double-checked that we are running the identical updated apps of V12 (12.0.1) on both machines. At a total loss and this is killing my productivity.

  7. I'm getting a "run time" error everytime I export a V12 Spotlight file to ESP Vision and then V12 crashes. using Sony Vaio. We've successfully exported a test file when we updated ESP, but this is new. Any ideas?

    T

  8. Hey TD,

    A simple work around is to turn the pen or line color attribute to none-this will negate the container the focus point sits in. And you can alter the size of the text just by selecting it and changing the font size in the text menu...

    todd

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