Casey

Yea, I just purchased AutoPlot and noticed that the icons are there for it, but they don't correspond to anything. I'm not sure I would use it a lot, but it sounds like a nice feature.

That worked!!! I've been struggling with this for like two years and all I had to do was switch the default font. It did mess up all of the text that wasn't CountryBlueprint but the specific problem that I was looking at was fixed. And yes, there are some other problems with that font as text in the documents, but these are really easy to get around from mty standpoint. I type everything as a font such as Arial and don't change it to Country Blueprint until it is ready to be plotted. Thanks

Nope, and that wouldn't explain it unless there was a "set only the characters after the first three to .5 font" or something like that. I've attached a screen shot of this craziness. This really makes the color field useless. For what its worth, this only happens with some fonts (including the CountryBlueprint shown above, and it isn't the only craziness Vectorworks has with this font.

I'm having the same problem in 12.5.2. I remember this happening to me before also, different file / different computer. This only happens with specific fonts (with me it's CountyBlueprint). I believe it is a general font problem rather than a label legend problem as there are other glitches with this font, such as it being garbled sometimes when you edit texts. But with this glitch here is exactly what it is doing to me: In the color media category anything longer than 3 characters is exactly half the font size it should be. Very Strange. So my R376 will inevitably be hung as R37 because you can't even read the trailing 6. I guess I will have to go back to arial black.

My question was regarding R59 in a ETC S-4 Ellipsoidal. So it should only be 575W. Are you saying that when rendering it does not take into account what wattage the lamp is, or are you saying that it cannot simulate more than 2KW? Regardless, I don't think R59 would under any wattage, turn an icky bluish color. Also, I took your suggestion and submitted it as a bug. I think that it is, in fact, a bug as all other colors render on my computer much closer to their realized counterparts. IE They at least read the correct hue.

I've been waiting for someone to have the answer to this problem as I too have been having it. I have only included it once and doing so required me to change the font type and size until I found one that fit into the appropriate boxes. Since then I have not bothered with them they are very difficult to get to work properly. I hope someone out there knows what we both are missing.

Thanks, I think that this color is just off, because prompted by my own question I went back and looked at a bunch of different colors and for the most part they are very close. It is not likely however that this is due to the same number used from different manufacturers as the program takes the same vernacular that I'm used to with color media: R59 R-Roscoe 59-The specific color However, I do feel that renderings produced in Vectorworks over all have a tendency to produce colors that are less saturate then they are on stage.

Hey Guys, I'm new to the forums but have been reading and gleaning for over a year. This may be a renderworks question, but it is specific to theatrical color media so you guys may be better suited to answer this question. I own a copy of "VW12 Designer/Renderworks" and am a student and a freelance theatrical lighting designer. I would really like to use VW to render my lighting looks as well as create the plot. I attended a section at USITT this spring on computer pre-visualization and answered most of my questions, but I have noticed that there are some gel colors that are way off. For instance, the color R59 in a S4 Ellipsoidal should be a deep indigo (in fact, it's name is "Indigo") but when rendered in VW12 on my computer it is a rather unattractive light blue. But then R26 ("light red") is exactly what it should be. Has anyone else experienced this and what can I do to work around it (short of changing the colors to some other name for the visualization). Also, what is the deal with the absence of colors such as R120-R122 and the other primary colors? Any help is appreciated.