Tom Grabowski Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I have been having a reoccurring problem with rendering parts of some of my sets. I have been using a polyline to draw the rather complex outline of my stage and then extruding a little bit (.05?) so that I can give it a fill and a texture. It is in its own layer and class and is then locked to prevent if from being moved. I put the set pieces on top of this in different layers (all in the same scale) and classes with fills and textures. It works in wireframe but when I try to render it with any of the Renderworks commands, I get a number of different results. The most consistent is that I will get the stage floor to render with no set and then it disappears from the screen and then it renders again but this time I get the set rendered with no floor. I also had the floor get stuck in a rendered view even when the wireframe view is checked. I have tried various aspects and ways of doing the stage floor, locked when rendering, unlocked, turning the polyline into a floor. I did get it to work successfully for one set but I am not sure what I did on that one drawing that worked. I am using 11.51 on PC but it is not machine related as it happens at both the home and office. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Dave Donley Posted October 21, 2005 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 21, 2005 Hello Tom: If you can, please send me the file at dave@nemetschek.net and I'll let you know what is going on. Quote Link to comment
Tom Grabowski Posted October 21, 2005 Author Share Posted October 21, 2005 As per Mike M Oz's suggestion, I put the stage floor in to the same layer as the set and now it will render, Will the program only render one layer at a time? Tom Quote Link to comment
Tom Grabowski Posted October 21, 2005 Author Share Posted October 21, 2005 As per Mike M Oz's suggestion, I put the stage floor in to the same layer as the set and now it will render. Will the program only render one layer at a time? Tom Quote Link to comment
propstuff Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 Yes Tom, only one layer will render. "Layer Links" and now Viewports are used to bring all the wanted layers together into one for rendering. A Layer Linked model can also be used for flythroughs etc etc. HTH Quote Link to comment
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