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nocolorblue

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  1. Currently in VW 2008 or 2009 when I insert the active instrument or accessory into my plot it switches from the active symbol to a S4 26 Deg with draw beam on, focused to focus point D2.

    Tried deleting my record formats, no success.

    As a workaround I can replace it with the active symbol from the object info palette, but that gets old extremely fast.

  2. We've been running into a time consuming and annoying issue lately in Spotlight. On every lighting position we have on our plot lighting instruments seemingly duplicate themselves, perfectly aligning with each other. We can't see them when they do this. They duplicate as active lighting instruments so they take unit numbers when "auto unit-number" is on and completely throw off our instrument count. Not to mention we're exporting to ESP vision so this causes major issues.

    It looks like it's happening whenever we "refresh instruments". From our basic calculations about two random fixtures per refresh.

    Our current workaround is to avoid refreshing as much as possible, and before ESP and Lightwright are exported we export the raw instrument data to excel, find the duplicate fixtures, and delete them via their UID number in "find & modify".

    Anyone ever run into this, know what might be causing it and how to stop it?

  3. We're working with ESP Vision and texturing, but seeing as how this is more of a general Open GL / Vectorworks question hopefully you can assist us.

    We have an extruded grey rectangle with a texture applied to it, "Metal Alumunin Machined" creating a fence look. We'd like for light to be able to pass through the fence holes in Open GL 2.0, for use in ESP Vision. In Final Quality Renderworks the fence holes are open and look great, but in Open GL the fence hole are covered in grey and do not allow light to pass through.

    Is there a way to make this work with the texture? Extruding a rectangle and then subtracting the fence holes via duplicate array proved challenging and added too many geometric faces to our file.

  4. Has anyone had experience using ESP Vision with the vectorworks 2008 plug-ins to build the model / plot first?

    We might be using it to pre-viz a show this coming fall as a cheaper and hopefully more compatible alternative to WYSIWYG via our emphasis servers. I'm looking for some input before we dive head first into this project.

    Thanks!

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