Horst M.

I agree with you, specially If somebody is not interested in doing Renderings himself, the Export to C4D should be possible. It looks like you you can export for External Renders as 3ds, which is a NEM-VW-C4D competitors File Format. Without owning Renderworks or 3ds-Max. A bit strange. Besides that, with RW2012 I had the first time since I use VW the growing Idea, that, once, I may not need (or want) an external Render Programm. Before RW2011 RW was bejond .... So I used C4d. C4D offers a very Complex Material Editor, Caustics, GI Portals, Animation of Objects, a walkthrough Tool that works, Texture mapping tools that are worth the Name But all this is also a whole a lot to learn and Its a very Powerfull tool, that wants to be handeled, and has a good potential to lead you away from your target. Lost! The Way, "they" have implemented Renderstyles makes me hope and whish, that "they" do this also in the Material Manger, the Mapping tool and so on. This could lead to a RW that doesn't constrain "us" to become Specialists in Render Programms. Even if its Fun :-) like Mograph. Regards Horst M.

Looks like it is as you wrote. attached Screenshot from VW2012 Help

Some experimental work was spent to realise my Private StreetView outside of the Window. Therefore I took 5 Fotos of the Street Standing at the Window. Droped them into Photoshop Elements 10 to do a "Photomerge" for the Panorama, which worked amazingly well. This Foto was textured on a Cylinder with roughly the Dimension of the Panoramaview. and kind of arranged with the H an V offset, and SIze. To try and error the settings for these Values was not so much fun, but may be the Adjustment of textures gets more comfortable once. For me this Method seems to work. The shots inside the Rooms, gave a pretty good View outside the Window from all Cam. Postions that I tried. That causes another Problem: too Good arguments to buy the Sofa..... :-)

Hi, The Renderstylz, as Dave mentions, are wunderbar. I've been testing with RW2012 (for a new Sofa:-) and specially the Render Realisitc Fast and Final Styles worked extremely well. My first impression, that RW 2012 with the Renderstyles and the Lighting Setup is very good to use. All the Settings are in one Area, and the default Values are already usable without Modifikations. IMHO a real promssing Progress. The images attached were created with Render Realistic Final and a few Lights inside the Rooms.

Juhuu! That did it! Thanks a lot Petri! and thanks mike for the tip. Horst M.

Hi, I've the Problem that Groups can't be switched from Screen Plane to Layer plane I'm working with some Template FIles from our Venue that are created with Versions before Layerplane was introduced, and almost every Symbol contains Groups. there are a whole lot of them. Is there a way to convert these Symbols to accept LayerPlane without editing every Symbol and search for Groups? Horst M.

Hallo Tom, Check what kind of objects are imported into VW to form the geometry of the Elements. (3d Polygons or Nurbs Surfaces or extrudes ...) I had some imports from Symbols supplied by a Manufacturer, that were originally created with Solidworks. They imported into VW as Symbols with hundreds of NURBS Surfaces inside. These Symbols slowed VW substantially down. Specially during Renders I edited the Symbols, selected all Nurbs Surfaces and executed the "Stitch Trim Surface" Command. with Luck! Solidworks seems to export perfect fitting geometry! All those Nurbs Surfaces were converted to a few Solids. Renderings were very fast after that and the slow down was completely gone. If you like Post an Element for further Exploration Regards Horst M.

the bright Side of that: 47 bugs less to deal with.

Hi mark, if you still need help .zip it and send it with a PM. Besides that you could get the VW 2012 Trial and give yourself the pleasure of exploring VW :-). regards Horst M.

I've had exactly the same once with VW2011, including the same solution. Before closing and reopening i tried to open and close the Navigation palette, and also opened and closed the Layer Editor several times which didn't solve the Problem. It happend just once never again.

Hallo, I chose this solution: Simlab Composer Rendering Edition http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=154751&Searchpage=1&Main=31455&Words=3dpdf&Search=true#Post154751 The first Model for a Building had 40MB, but with some fiddling i got it down to 7.5MB so it can be mailed! The Collegues and Colaborators like it, bu they are always very surprised, when the 3d image in the pdf document starts moving. regards Horst M.

may be it helps to enter the Edit Mode of the the Symbol from the Resourcebrowser, and not by doubleklicking a Symbol in the drawing? I dont have time to explore that in the Moment. regards Horst M.

in some cases it might work to use the Colour-Filter Option of the Texture.

I think bcd's suggestion sounds good. beause it doesn't cost much rendertime for the Background / Image ot the beach, the Sea the dolphins and the girls... Unfortuantely Cameramatch is only available for VW2009 and later.

Hallo, My few Conversion between Versions experience: Conversion from VW 2008 to 2010 caused trouble, when the migrated File had "complex" 3D Geometry. I had a few issues, where this geometry got lost. Migrating from 2008 to 2009 to 2010 --> avoided that. I had recently migrated Files from 2009 to 2011, and ran into a Problem with hybrid Symbols. It seemd to be the Case that there was inside the 3D Component some invisible "Ghost" representation from the 2D Part. (discovered via crtl - A) I guess some Layerplane---Screenplane ged?ns. (Dear Moderators: "ged?ns" can't be translated in a single Word but is nothing rude). Ungrouping all Groups inside the 3D Part makes the ged?ns disappear. Migrating the Symbol Files from 2009 to 2010 to 2011 avoided that Problem. regards Horst M.

And nobody has a Problem with the EAP getting twisted as described above?? If anybody has a Solution how to avoid that effect i would be very happy. Regards Horst M.

I can't confirm that. Yesterday I opened some Files from 2008. There is some odd behaviour with Symbols that contain Groups. Its also in 2011 alone, but with the Symbols imported from 2008 it was worse. There seems to be 2d "Ghost" Geometry in the 3D Part of the Symbol. Invisible but if you select all you see empty Selection boundaries. wired! Once you ungroup that Stuff is gone its gone. I had no Crash. If you like, Post one of your 2008 Files for investigation. Besides that it could help to open and save the 2008 Files in 2009 and/or 2010 before opening them in 2011. Regards Horst M.

EAP ---- Railfile for VW 2008

Thanks for the advice. I didn't know that. Nomally I group the Componets that shoud be cut. But Zeyneps File had just one Object, that I wanted to Split in 2, in the Middle. But this can't be done with the Split tool. In Zeyneps Nurbs Surface Example you can see what the Problem is. See screenshot attached.

Here is File how a Rail would Look like if you create it with EAP.

hallo taoist, Since you seem to work a lot on Rails for Stairs and with the EAP tool I want to show you some special behaviour of our beloved tool. That at least I had to dicover, and wasn't able to find a solution for... I discovered that while i was working on a Rail vor a Stair with a komplex porfile, and I cloudn't get it done. The effect is, that an EPA on a Nurbs Line, that goes from Screen top to Screen Bottom, and has verticies with different z heights ( .. goes up in Space) The resulting EPA ist Twisted no matter if you check lock Profile or not. If the same Nurbs goes from Screen left to Screen right the EAP works fine, nothing gets twisted .. alt least since VW 2009! in 2010 it was less drastic; in 2011 the misbehaviour increased...again

Hallo, I found the point, that causes the Shell tool to fail. Your Nurbs surface ist overlapping itself in a Part. If you change that you can shell it without cutting it. (I hope...) regards Horst M.

if you cut the Surface in the middle, you can shell the slices The question is: how to avoid that the creapy cutting tools cuts the whole world in pieces??

actually, I don't have a Idea what you mean with a Light tree I've never heard that term in Theater or Events, not even in the US

Hi, Don't get me wrong, but did you try to toggle the Line-weight Display in Adobe Reader? I had to fiddle with this line weight's in my pdf exports also, specially since I updated Acrobat Reader to Version 10. Here I had a hard time to find the Point where to switch the Line weights on and of In the End it was cmd 5 (on the Mac). In older Reader Versions there was an Icon that looked like a little House to do that. may be....