Greg Miller Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Just started a new model. I can view the model and render in OpenGL and all of my objects and textures show up. But, switching to Renderworks (any of the renderworks options), the model just goes completely white. I can move my cursor over the model and see the objects hilighting, but nothing renders. I can go back to OpenGL, but sometimes I have to turn a light on and off again for the OpenGL to re-render. I have been doing this for years, never had this problem. Assumed it is something simple (and dumb), but cannot figure it out. Any ideas? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
Jershaun Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I've also been having these issues-sometimes with more fatal results (crashes). I think the best thing to do for everybody is email the file and submit a bug to bugsubmit. Quote Link to comment
Greg Miller Posted November 15, 2011 Author Share Posted November 15, 2011 Upgraded to 2012 and it seems to have fixed it, mostly. Still some weirdness, but at least I can get a rendering. Next: control for whether the problem resides with the file or the program. Quote Link to comment
the frog Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 hello just new on the forum but old French user of Vw I had the same problems, you have to check if your surface is closed or if lines are not overlapping when you create the surface before extruding. If this happens then render is not working. do not hesitate to zoom a lot on the connecting points. Being careful since version 12,5, I don?t know if the new rendering engine (V2011) have solve or not the question; obviously not. Quote Link to comment
Tom G. Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I was having problems in v.2011 when doing orbit point fly-arounds in Open GL in which the movie seemed to have no content--it was blank. Trying it in a different rendering mode would then work--taking much more time to produce, of course. Now, having upgraded to 2012, that problem seems to have gone away. Tom Quote Link to comment
greenartichoke Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I have a problem with Renderworks 2012 when multiple layers are used. If I render a scene in Open GL it renders fine with layers operating for the various components. If I then try to render in fast or final Renderworks the scene will 'blink' on as a render but will leave the scene blank. If more than one layer is operating at the same time there appears to be a bug which simply will not allow the screen to render. I have been able to work around the issue by making a final render with all objects on one layer. All layers have visibility switched on. Any suggestions? Greenartichoke iMac 27" 2.7 GHz [nice machine but runs hot while rendering] Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Dave Donley Posted February 17, 2012 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 17, 2012 Hi greenartichoke: Try turning on Unified View, this makes all 3D layers coexist in the same 3D space. When Unified View is off, VW has to render each layer in turn and underlying layers are obscured by the layers on top. Quote Link to comment
greenartichoke Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Thanks Dave works great. Greenartichoke Quote Link to comment
cad@sggsa Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 (edited) Is this tread problem similar to my post? http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=166381#Post166381 @ greenartichoke: Another work around would be to use Classes instead of Layers.... Edited February 20, 2012 by cad@sggsa Quote Link to comment
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