Yoginathaswami Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Aloha, what should I do to have the rendered objects show up smoothly in a viewport. I tried changing the dpi of the sheet layer to 1200 and various rendering option but the image still shows up jagged in my viewport. Attached is a sample file. Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Have you tried it in Final Quality Renderworks? Did you update the viewport after the change? Could you post a screen shot? Quote Link to comment
Yoginathaswami Posted July 20, 2010 Author Share Posted July 20, 2010 (edited) Hi Ray, Yes, I tried Final Q. Renderworks and did update the viewport. See the attaches jpeg file. It was a screen shot after updating the FQR.. Btw, it looks great in the Design Layer! Only in viewports. Edited July 20, 2010 by Yoginathaswami Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 It has me stumped, it looks good on my end. Maybe there is something wrong with the object, try recreating it. Quote Link to comment
Yoginathaswami Posted July 20, 2010 Author Share Posted July 20, 2010 Hi Ray, I tried different object on a different file. Same problem! Look at the roof of the attached JPG image. Final Quality Renderworks... Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Aloha Yogi, No problem here with your original file. See attached (from your VP on Sheet Layer, with Fast RW's)... I cannot seem to reproduce your (funky) results... Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Have you tried a complete shutdown and restart of your computer?? Quote Link to comment
Yoginathaswami Posted July 21, 2010 Author Share Posted July 21, 2010 (edited) Aloha, Peter: Thanks... I tried a complete shutdown and restart?no change. I also did the "Permission Repair" and booted the computer on a single user mode (in UNIX) and ran the Disk Repair. No improvement either. There are some improvement when I change the background of my VW window to white instead black background?the white hides the jaggy edges...this is not really a solution I even reset my VW preferences but still no change. My rendering in the Design Layer is very sharp. I noticed the DPI of the Sheet Layer impacts the result of the viewport rendering. When I increase it to 1200 it improves?still not as good as you would have in DL. I wonder what is your SL DPI setting? Was there any significant difference in your rendering results when you compare your DL and SL results? Any other thoughts? Anyone? Edited July 21, 2010 by Yoginathaswami Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 The DPI setting is a document setting so we get the same as you do on the file. You shouldn't need to go to 1200 DPI, the rendering times are huge. I've never seen this problem before and again, I'm baffled. Maybe moving this to the Renderworks forum will get the right eyes looking at it. Would you like me to do this? Quote Link to comment
Yoginathaswami Posted July 21, 2010 Author Share Posted July 21, 2010 Aloha, Ray: Please move it to the Renderworks forum. Thank you! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Dave Donley Posted July 21, 2010 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 21, 2010 Aloha Yoginathaswami: Change the viewport to have a solid fill. When bitmap objects and viewports have their fill set to None then white areas of the bitmap are drawn as transparent. This can be handy with white backgrounds but looks weird like this in black background. HTH! Quote Link to comment
Yoginathaswami Posted July 22, 2010 Author Share Posted July 22, 2010 Aloha, Dave: Thank you so much! That helps...Do you know if it is possible to get crisp output in the viewports as we see in the DL? Is this just my settings or universal end result for all VW users? Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 For me, your file the viewport renders exactly as the DL. Quote Link to comment
Yoginathaswami Posted July 22, 2010 Author Share Posted July 22, 2010 Aloha, Ray: So it is just on my Mac...Bummer! I messed around with all the settings i.e. preferences that I know will have an impact on rendered output...don't know what else to do. Perhaps, reinstall VW...but I am not prepared to do it right now. Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Can you post a screenshop of what it looks like after you gave the viewport a solid fill? Quote Link to comment
Yoginathaswami Posted July 22, 2010 Author Share Posted July 22, 2010 Aloha, Ray: Here are the images?one from DL and another from SLVP. Perhaps, I am just being to fussy. Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Kind of looks like the white background brings it out more, but to me they are pretty much the same. Quote Link to comment
Yoginathaswami Posted July 22, 2010 Author Share Posted July 22, 2010 Aloha, Ray: Thanks for the confirmation! Appreciate your help and thank you so much for being so generous with your time! Quote Link to comment
MCheng Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 Try this: Under the Sheet Layer tab in the Navigation pane, right-click the Sheet Layer that your Viewport is on and select Edit. Change dpi from the default (72 dpi) to something higher (300 dpi worked for me) and update the viewport. Hope that helps! Quote Link to comment
Assemblage Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 When bitmap objects and viewports have their fill set to None then white areas of the bitmap are drawn as transparent. Sorry Yoginathaswami to jump in on a different angle: when I saw your post Dave I was hopeful for a simple way of rendering a model with a transparent background for dropping into a site photo. Exporting the vp with fill as None and as a png (which should support transparency) there is still a white background to the image. I also tried it the other way around: instead of composing in Photoshop, I imported the image into VW and placed the render on top. It worked, but there is a white anti-alias blurry edge to the model..so back to square one having to extract foreground material from a background by hand in Photoshop. Quote Link to comment
Yoginathaswami Posted August 30, 2010 Author Share Posted August 30, 2010 Aloha, MCheng: Tried that...didn't work. Assemblage: No problem! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted August 31, 2010 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted August 31, 2010 Hi Yoginathaswami, MCheng's advice had no effect? Setting the sheet layer DPI (where the viewport resides) should have a direct effect on the resolution of the rendering. Quote Link to comment
Harry Newman Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Hi Yogi, 12 years after your initial post I had come across the exact same problem. I had the correct sheet DPI etc. After much searching I found the following setting. Document Preferences > Resolution > Bitmap Display > Make sure "Full Resolution" is selected. This helped in my instance. Hopefully any wayward travellers in the future find this helpful as well. All the best, H 1 Quote Link to comment
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