mali Posted April 2, 2004 Share Posted April 2, 2004 Hi, We have customer in South Africa with the following query. What can we tell them about any new possible features in the works that may address his problems so we can keep them as a Vectorworks customer. Regards, Mali CADAFRICA ------- ? We are a lighting company in South Africa and we have been using Vectorwork,Renderworks and Spotlight for about 4 years now. I also been on your course in Las Vegas. ? VectorWorks/Spotlight/Renderworks?is one off the best design combination?packages I have ever seen and ever work on. However times are changing and technology is changing, in the Lighting industry a virtualizers is become fast imperative to have, something like Martin Show Designer, Capture or the famous WYSIWYG. A program where you can you your lighting design in and the can start doing some programming on the virtualizer using real lighting desk. Now you can also see? what your design is going to look like. The most important factor with the virtualizer is the fact that? you can?use your original lighting design, generate the paper work and the?start programming offline, it just save so much time. ? Also when we do renderings of lighting on set and shows, we can not render the light beam travel thru the air as you would see in real live on a stage with smoke. In the competitive industry we find ourselves in we need to stay on track with our competitors. Our competitors are using products like MSD and WYSIWYG which are lighting/show design products. Don't get me wrong Renderworks is by far more superior in rendering realistic texture (close to photo quality) than any other program, but the only thing that?it is?sort off is the ability to render light beams traveling thru smoke. ? The reason for this mail is that we must upgrade in the near future, and we need to make a decision if we are going to stick with Vectorworks or if we are going to try a new product that will for fill that other needs It will be a sad day for me if we have to stop using Vectorworks because? I still believe that is one off the best program, it is just so unfortunate that the two aspect that Vectorwork are sort off are so crucial in the lighting design and presentation industry. ? Can you please let me know if any of this features will be included in later addition of Vectorworks, Spotlight and Renderworks or if they are already included and we've been miss informed ? Hope to here from you soon ? Kind Regards ? Francois van der Merwe ------------ Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Dave Donley Posted April 2, 2004 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 2, 2004 Hello mali: You should post this on the Distributor mailing list. I cannot discuss what features will be implemented in future versions. Note though that volumetric shadows are already noted as one of the top wishes for the Spotlight/RenderWorks combination. Quote Link to comment
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