show gobo in shaded?

[fuberator]

Hello

 

I am loving that fixture beams are now visible in shaded mode with lit fog. However, I cant seem to enable gobos. I am using the robe megapointe and in the OIP>edit fixture I can pick a gobo but the gobo is not applied and the selection does not stick.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thank you

[Kevin Allen]

does it render in FQR?

[Dave Donley]

Hello @fuberator Can you post a VWX file with this fixture set up and I will look at why it isn't rendering.

 

[fuberator]

hi

 

Here is a simple test file and a screenshot of the gobo I am trying to pickgobotest.vwx

 

[klinzey]

The gobo wheel tab is only used for specifying, overriding the default load, which gobos are in the gobo wheel for Vision exports since you can select the gobo using a console.
Since Vectorworks can't process DMX data from a console you need to specify which gobo will be used in the Light Information tab by selecting a gobo texture resource.

[John Bishop]

Vectorworks 2023:
I found that I needed to push a shutter in slightly to make gobos visible in Shaded views.
Just 1% seemed to make all the difference.
Then I set the Data Visualisation to "None" and all of a sudden I could see the gobos i the beams and on surfaces, and the colour for the beams as well.
I pulled the shutter back out and the gobos and colours continue to work.
It seems as if the Data Visualisation that I was using ("Grey Lights" so that I could see the fixtures more easily to select them) was overriding the gobo and colour settings.
I hope this may help you.

John

 

John Bishop

John Bishop Lighting Design