mjm

April 12

Sadly I sometimes choose "force quit" in these situations, because…time

April 8

4 hours ago, Gunther said:

We're working on a couple public notifications. It appears Apple has broken some aspects of image handling in macOS update 15.4. We have reported the issue to Apple.

@Gunther—If you have the time it'd be great to understand what those aspects are, as they relate to VWX files.

April 4

1 hour ago, shorter said:

Just import the xlsx into a worksheet?

MAybe reference the sheet into the VWX,. so you update the XLSX then re-calculate the sheet, as I remember

April 2

12 hours ago, MattWhite said:

Thanks for your thoughts Benson,

Both the design layer and the view port were in Top/plan. I copied the objects into a new file and made a new viewport. The 2d poly tool now bucket fills the objects correctly without any strange offsets.

I then went back to the original file and made a new viewport on the original sheet layer... which is VP #2. And it fills correctly.

So, retested VP#1 and it still didn't fill correctly. I then copied VP#1 and Made VP#3 and found that I also fills correctly. I then went back to my original VP#1 retested it again, found that it now fills correctly as well. It seems that the simple act of coping the VP caused something that was stuck to unstick itself.

This is the way

March 24

Hey there @Andy Broomell, curious about why you use the renderworks camera. What upside is there to that tool the video camera doesn’t have?

March 18

23 minutes ago, Bruce Kieffer said:

I suggest you call to support on that one.

between posting & returning now, I did that very thing. Full Disk Access was clicked off for VWX 2025 & VWX Installer 2025 in Mac OS 15.3.1 system settings

Re-asserted - things seem fine for now

Thanks to VWX tech phone support

March 18

I am having repeated problems trying to install it - this is the third time the update has failed. A reboot immediately prior to the latest attempt did not help

March 10

1 hour ago, Zsombor said:

Hello,

I've placed hundreds of existing trees, then I realised that there are some duplicates. After removing them, there remained a gap in the numbering. Is there a prompt for renumbering them? Or how can I fix it easily? I've tried it in the worksheet, but it takes a lot of time renumbering them one by one.

Thank you,

Look at the Savvy Sequencer plugin by Josh Benghiat: It'll number pretty much anything, including filling record fields—might do what you need.

March 4

@JustinVanHassel I do appreciate your lengthy reply as it fills in many data holes & clarifies the many moving parts , individuals & groups with input on the VWX side alone

February 22

30 minutes ago, E|FA said:

Regarding the sample file @Tom W. sent me. Neither PDF Expert nor PDF Tollkit+ could compress the file. I'm attaching a screenshot of the PDF Toolkit message indicating the problem with vector graphics. I then exported the PDF to a PNG to get rid of the vector graphics, created a PDF back from the PNG, and then compressed. This worked with Preview, PDF Expert, and PDF Toolkit+. Not the greatest option if you have a lot of sheets.

Based on this, I think that when possible it would be better to replace vector (and hatch) heavy underlays like maps with a rasterized PNG or JPG when feasible, keeping the vector data only in the portions that are needed.

Thanks for your research @E|FA

February 21

3 hours ago, Tom W. said:

I have a PDF generated from VW - a map - that looks like this:

It is 26.5MB. When I save it with Quartz Filter set to 'Reduce File Size' the resultant PDF is 39.8MB in size 🙂

I get same results w/ the Apple Quartz filter.

February 20

I ♥️ PDF web site: free, great compression—generally better IMO than Adobe's. and their other products on the same page are also awesome. PDF convert to Excel is my second most used feature there.

I should perhaps point out that a multipage PDF is compressible for free, but multiple files at once are not.

January 29

On 5/4/2024 at 9:47 AM, zoomer said:

I used that for years.

Even at times when my eyes were still good.

Same same

January 28

I guess I'd start with a nice catenary curve, probably drawn with the excellent catenary plugin tool from @Paolo.

From there I'd extrude the line to the dimensions required.

January 8

2 hours ago, JBenghiat said:

Shameless plug: my Savvy Sequencer plug-in will sequentially number any existing object. You can store the number in the object name or an attached record, or you can automatically place text objects on each line.

https://benghiatlighting.com/software/product/savvy-sequencer-2/#description

Shameless approbation of same! This is a tool whose utility has no bounds. Try it. Scary good and simple in application. It is literally the first re-installed plugin on every VWX install I've done since discovering it.

January 5

7 hours ago, mjm said:

Hello again @markdd—thanks, that worked a treat. Have an excellent new year

here're a couple quick renders post-fix, with those old old posing figures which I still use alarmingly frequently for the ability to simulate interesting/thematic movement & to fake costumes (that not shown).

January 4

13 hours ago, markdd said:

The website is a subscription site.checkout the home page if out the link in my signature below.

Remove the point check mark from the record.

Hello again @markdd—thanks, that worked a treat. Have an excellent new year

January 4

26 minutes ago, mjm said:

@markdd Much appreciated—It does appear that page requires a login.

copy thx - however I must be missing something. I copied the original point source, moved it down to where it belongs, leaving the original in place. The new beam position works well, yay. however, the body now separates from the yoke upon focus -see the screenshots.

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January 4

19 hours ago, markdd said:

You can change the placement of the emitter. Go to the 3d component of the symbol and add a 3d locus closer to the lens. Add the parts record to it and then enter 1 into the emitter field.

Return to the design layer.

Now the light will emit from the new locus rather than the default locus.

There is a video here.

https://showvector.com/lighting-devices-instrument-symbols/

@markdd Much appreciated—It does appear that page requires a login.

January 3

First—happy new year to this great community!

I think I'm shouting into the wind here—this issue gets really old after awhile.

Why does this matter to me? Well sometimes the show is intimate, the show has performers operating stage equipment, the audience is embedded in the performing area.

This is VWX 2025 SP2.1

Your favorite workarounds, if you have one

The next three are the same order & settings.

December 26, 2024

On 12/24/2024 at 5:22 PM, Peter Neufeld. said:

He's arrived again this year.

Merry Christmas to all.

TRADITION!!!!!

December 16, 2024

1 minute ago, mjm said:

💯

Also—what other rendering software has this specific beam-shaping ability, esp natively:

Capture? That Wysi-thing? C4D? Blender?

December 16, 2024

💯

December 13, 2024

Just installed the updated plugin BeamViz 7. It does something I've been waiting for…Keep an eye on the cursor frame R. (nope, not the gate rotation)

Wow.

For those of us who need gobos focussed in a variety of edges, building them one by one in PS was so irritating.

Thanks Josh.

December 3, 2024

On 8/10/2020 at 2:12 PM, Kevin Allen said:

On their own, they will not, But I have considered gathering the data and entering into the LIR for use with the photometric tools. This is something I haven't tried, I usually want the glints an IES file adds to a render

Sidebar-ing this a touch - is it possible to change the color output of an IES file, similar to putting color in the spotlight fixtures?

thanks

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