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klinzey

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  1. The textures do not change, the lighting changes.

    When you insert a lighting device into the document you are placing a light source and the automatic lighting created by Vectorworks is automatically turned off, so you will hae to turn a light on or place your own area light. (There is no way to prevent this.)

    The problem with textures not exporting to ESP Vision is due to ESP Vision requiring a newer version of Quicktime than Vectorworks. See ESP Vision Forums

    If the textures assigned the the objects change, that's a problem that I have not seen.

  2. All the lights used in the lighting devices are shown in the visualization pallette. You can set the properties there.

    You can also select a lighting device and right clitk on it, select "edit light..." to access the properties of the light.

  3. Try creating a Label Legend from scratch. When you edit the layout make sure everything looks right. Make sure the labels are inside of the lareg rectangle, that the bounding box of the symbol does not appeat too large etc.

    You can also try creating the LL in a new blank document and importing it into your document.

    Also, make sure you are using "Assign legend to instrument", it resets some of thestored info.

    Only other thing to check is that your origin is somewhere reasonable.

  4. There is a simple trick to adding user fields to the light info record.

    If you edit the "Light Info Record" and add a field that matches a field in the lighting device, the lighting device will automatically pull the information from the record as the default.

    So if you add "User Field 1" to the light info record the information will automatically appear in the "User Field 1" of the lighting device.

    One caution with this you need to update all your light info records with the new fields or you will get the warning "This record exists, do you want to ...." evry time you import a symbol with different record fields.

    Also you can customize the user fields of the lighting device, so if you open the plug-in editor and change the alternative name of "User Field 1" to "Voltage" and the "Light info Record" contains a field "Voltage" the information will be transfered.

    In earlier versions of Spotlight it looked at mutiple records, but this created major problems when both records contained the same field names, so operating with mutiple records had to be eliminated.

  5. Since it renders the light but no color there are a few more things to check.

    Make sure nothing is blocking the light. When you render in fast Renderworks or with certain options in Custom Renderworks certain objects will not cast a shadow.

    Often the piper or the floor will block the light.

    Is the instrument from the Spotlight Library or it is one you created?

    Make sure your lighting device has a solid fill and pen.

    (This problem has been fixed in 2009.)

  6. I've seen OpenGL craches caused by problems with just a piece of geometry. Other then contacting and sending the file to technical support, your best solution is to try eliminating things from the drawing and see what prevents it from crashing when you render.

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