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Intermittently to me as well. Hasn't happened since I updated to SP 5 (so far…)

Thank you @JuanP

OMG. "…All of the crap that we spend hours needing to do by hand instead of getting to actually design things.…"

@Jesse Cogswell—"…the day that a scenic designer presents a rendering of their set made with this tool with all kinds of crazy lighting, and the director turning to me and saying, "I want that. Make it look like that." And I know that day is coming.…" It has already come for me. And it was as unpleasant as I expected.

if you're in 2023 or 2024, Shaded allows more than eight lights and shadows. check your document settings - this'll allow any number of options

@BartHays—precisely why I shared the image with prompts because nothing in that prompt to me called out a specific artist / creator.

@Jeff Prince—ya, that's in part why I included the prompts, none of which indicate a specific artist. And wowzer, lawyers guns n money.

In the bottom right corner there is some chicken scratch which looks quite a bit like a signature—not mine. Thanks for the pro tip on duking it out with the magenta cast @Jeff Prince

I sometimes go to 600dpi not that I want to but…

@htranbos Sheet layer viewport or design layer? If Sheet Layer VP, make sure your Sheet DPI is set high enough for publishing - I often use 300 DPI.

@Cody Worthmanˆif you mean the red diagonal striped box, that tells you the state of that viewport needs refreshing

I wonder if this is due to symbols being built not on 0,0 causing them to jump away when entering the symbol container to edit

I believe one can select all sheets in the sheet tab of the nav palette, right click and edit the sheet dpi for all at once

@JustinVH—thank you @JustinVH ; I actually did not see those other default texture options.

In order to change the black blob part, one normally edits the Resource "Default Instrument Texture" to a lighter tone, such a s 50% grey.

thanks for those Dave and Claes

AGREED

@Jeff Prince Thanks for that analysis, opinion and wish. fully supported here.

@Christiaan O yes O yes please

Super! Looking forward to seeing the solutions offered there

@Iainy1961—something I fail to remember regularly is that renderworks is not (very sadly) a previz program. Things which can be done in a few clicks in Capture or LC or similar just cannot be done quickly in RW.

This is exactly correct. I'd love to gain back the hours and hours spent resolving the above-mentioned problems and technical issues. I mean, I need to restart VWX at least four times a day under normal load to lower the number times of app locking up, crashing or just plain refusing to render. When I don't:…just yesterday, double clicked on a VWX file during a zoom mtg, app opened fine, but as soon as the file started to load the machine crashed to a black screen followed by machine restart. That was a fun meeting moment…😬—some guffaws around the virtual table about my professional vertical market application. Minute it rebooted, file opened fine.

Agreed @Andy Broomell. I opened the file, turned those fixtures off, set all the ROBE beam angles to narrow, added fog to them and voila.

So therefore you might choose to dupe the symbol, delete the 2d representation, rotate to suit, re-autohybrid if desired, et voila!

@Greg Rosenke-yes this is the likely culprit - I still every once in a while forget and have to 'oh yeah THAT class or layer' button.