Locus showing in Light fixtures when rendering

[Mickey]

After laborring away to create a 3D model with truss, lights, and venue I have these little 3 pronged x's in all my light fixures. They look like the leftover of a deleted symbol, but they are in the center of the light fixtures, only after a render. It looks lame.

Why, and how do I get rid of it?

[CipesDesign]

Not positive, but there's a pref setting for "show light objects". I sually set it to "only in wireframe". Perhaps yours is set to "always"?

[Mickey]

Nope that didn't do it.

Thanks for trying.

The locus' don't appear in the wireframe render.

A coworker is also doing some rendering, and he to has the same objects so it's not specific to me.

Anyone else out there?

PS this is VW 12

[klinzey]

Turn off the non-plot calss? Any loci that ship with the symbols are placed in the Non-Plot class.

[Mickey]

OK so your post intrigued me.

I edited the symbol and found the 3D locus in there, and it was assigned to the none class, not the non-plot class.

I don't have a non-plot class in my class list.

I can't make the none class invisible as there are other objects (lot's of them) in that class.

Why does the locus render?

They don't show up when I export to a jpeg, and they don't print. Is this a bug?

[C. Andrew Dunning]

Mickey -

Not a bug. They're not supposed to print or render (when exporting).

FWIW, another CADD package had what were called "Standard Points." They were class-less/layer-less and had their own visibility toggles. I missed that approach and approximate it by creating a class called "Loci" and a toggle script to control its visibility. That class is set to use a given color for objects created in it. Assuming I remember to put all of my loci in that class, all works well.

A possible wish-list item here?

[propstuff]

Another solution I use is to make a Custom Visibility script to turn off the visibility of the Loci if I want to take a screen capture. As you note; they dont export or print, so it's not a problem.

HTH