Final Quality/Custom not working

[Damon Design]

I just downloaded the VW2011 Evaluation Copy Designer/Renderworks to take it for a test run-(Paid Copy being delivered in a few days)

I have opened up an existing file to 2011, and I understand that I will have to update/change the textures, but textures or not, my model will not render at all at Final Quality/Custom RW; the page is blank white, I can get preselection cues of the geometry with the cursor, and select objects, but nothing will actually show up as a solid rendered object.

On the existing sheet layer, the viewport with custom renderworks mode, updated will show as a wireframe model.

Also, I opened up a new, blank file, drew a few walls, applied a native RW2011 texture, and attempted a render, same thing.

Open GL, with the "old" lightworks textures, renders just fine, although the textures in the resource browser are black.

Any ideas? Some preference, setting, lighting option I am missing?

Thanks.

[Dave Donley]

Hello Tad:

It sounds like something specific with your machine either OS, network, or hardware that is keeping CineRender from launching.

If you launch VW then look at the running applications using Activity Monitor (Applications->Utilities->Activity Monitor) does CineRender show as one of the running applications?

Do the RW render mode menu items become grayed out after about a minute, after trying to render in a RW mode?

Also, you do have a Renderworks folder in the VW application folder, yes?

[Damon Design]

Thanks Dave,

Just got on line here this morning. Well, after re-launching and checking in the folder for CineRender and right clicking open (which didn't seem to do anything) it is now working.

I am presuming the fragmented large rendered elements popping up over the wireframe as opposed to the page slowly revealing itself is the normal rendering visual.

Off to explore the new features.

Cheers,

Edited September 21, 2010 by Damon Design

[Dave Donley]

Whew, glad it's working for you now. Have fun!

[graphage]

I am having the same issue. Nothing happens when I initiate any of the renderworks commands. This is true for both the trial download and the purchased disk version of 2011. I have tried what worked for Tad, but it didn't work for me. Does anybody have any thoughts here?

[Ray Libby]

Are you using a workspace from another version? It would help to know your computer specs. Put that and your version of VW in a signature.

[domer1322]

I am having similar problems. I tried changing to standard workspace with VW 2011 ... no joy. I can't get my viewports to render in RW. The same viewport renders OK in wireframe and OpenGL but not RW nor Artistic RW. I tried this with a new file, that has only a wall and a door and a light source .... no joy. Could this be related to QT ? I had to download latest QT 7.6.6 in order to try making a QTVR panomaram (that didn't work either)

using Mac OS 10.6.3 iMac 27" i7

[domer1322]

I forgot to mention .... everything renders just fine in a normal design layer .... it is only the viewports (and section viewports) having trouble.

[Tamsin Slatter]

Hi all

I sometimes encountered this. I didn't ever really get to the bottom of it, but found that if I copied the viewport, the copy would render quite happily while the original just gives me a white viewport (after appearing to render for sometime). I have also managed to coax it by rendering in Fast Renderworks first then cranking up to Final Quality/Custom.

BUT my problem only occurs on files I have imported from 2010, and then not for all viewports. Just some seem to be stubborn. So, not sure that this is a lot of help...

All the best

[Dave Donley]

Hello domer1322:

Is the VW pref for image compression set to JPEG? VW Preferences

->Edit->Default Compression.

There is a bug where RW renderings do not show in bitmaps like viewports or the Render Bitmap tool when the VW default compression preference is set to JPEG. This is fixed for 2011 SP1. Switching the default compression to PNG works around the problem.

PNG compression looks much better than JPEG for renderings because PNG is lossless and JPEG is lossy.

[domer1322]

Dave:

I did change the default compression to jpeg. Tonight I will verify if changing back to png fixed it (not typing this from my CAD computer) ... I hope ...

[TimG]

Thanks Dave, I had the same problem as Domer1322... Changing the default compression back to PNG in the preferences fixed the problem for me... my Viewports are utilizing custom renderworks again.

thanks again,

[domer1322]

Me too .... I changed it back to jpeg and all my problems in life went away .... (slight exaggeration) Thanks ....

PS: I am still getting used to VW2011 but there are some great new things.... good job on the new release.

[domer1322]

I switched compression back to png ... problem solved. All is well. Thanks for the help.