MSachs Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 (edited) I am using VW2008 and am having no luck visualizing gobos. I have set all the custom renderworks settings, the light is on and shadows are checked in the visualization palette, and nothing. I get the light to be whatever color gel I assign but no gobo. The pipe and instrument have 2D and 3D attributes and the pipe, instrument and focus point are all in the same layer and class, as is the floor. Any suggestions. Edited October 12, 2008 by MSachs Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted October 13, 2008 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 13, 2008 Try final quality renderworks. I know the settings in one of the manuals has an error. The settings should be raytraced NOT bitmaped. Quote Link to comment
MSachs Posted October 13, 2008 Author Share Posted October 13, 2008 Tried it. Still no luck. Any other suggestions? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted October 13, 2008 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 13, 2008 Since it renders the light but no color there are a few more things to check. Make sure nothing is blocking the light. When you render in fast Renderworks or with certain options in Custom Renderworks certain objects will not cast a shadow. Often the piper or the floor will block the light. Is the instrument from the Spotlight Library or it is one you created? Make sure your lighting device has a solid fill and pen. (This problem has been fixed in 2009.) Quote Link to comment
MSachs Posted October 13, 2008 Author Share Posted October 13, 2008 Actually, the color works, it's still not giving me a gobo. The instrument is a Source Four from the Resource Browser, nothing is blocking anything, and still no luck. It's getting frustrating. Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 I've had this happen in the past with 2008. By accident I discovered that toggling "Showdata" on and off will make the gobo appear. It also will sometimes fix the problem of the draw beam function being 90 or 180 degrees off. HTH Michael Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted October 13, 2008 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 13, 2008 Make sure your lighting device has a solid fill and pen. (This problem has been fixed in 2009.) Quote Link to comment
MSachs Posted October 13, 2008 Author Share Posted October 13, 2008 Have checked that and have also tried the above suggestion of toggling on and off the showdata box. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted October 13, 2008 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 13, 2008 At this point it would be best to send the file in and contact techsupport. tech@vectorwoeks.net The issues is usually simple once they see the file. Quote Link to comment
Russel Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 I used to have this issue, is the light on the same layer as the object your projecting onto, i.e. put your gobo projecting lamps on your set layer Quote Link to comment
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