Line-lights and area-lights not illuminating?

[thinkingpencil]

Hello all,

 

v2024 1.1

 

I created a line-light from a line and an area-light from a rectangle (both automatically converted to a NURBS curve in the process). But neither are illuminating. A direction light is illuminating as normal.  Anyone having a similar experience.....? Or have a missed a setting?

 

Incidentally there is a known issue also shown here, meaning Light-2 is on in the model, on in the OIP but not on in the Viz-lights palette. See separate thread....

 

....and I am not sure why the sphere isn't casting a shadow onto the slab, given settings in shaded-options?

 

 

 

 

20231116 Lighting Trial.vwx

[bc]

I can only commiserate. I ran into the same problem couple days ago.

[thinkingpencil]

BC, Glad it's not just me! Thank you for your commiseration. Returned 😀

I think lighting has advanced actually, e.g. no limit on the number. And from another thread I know Domas, and other Vectorworks employees, are working on a fix for the palette issue. Lighting adds a lot of value for my clients even though to my eyes it's crude.

Hopefully SP2 will solve the problem.

Meanwhile I illuminated the model by selecting default light sources.

 

[Tom W.]

Line Lights + Area Lights must be rendered with a Renderworks rendering mode. They won't work in Shaded. The Directional Light will work in Shaded but won't cast a shadow on a Rectangle, only onto 3D geometry. You have a Rectangle on top of your Slab. Delete it.

[thinkingpencil]

Thank you Tom W. Really appreciate your guidance.