Sambo Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Hey, I'm having a little trouble with rendering. My Vectorworks 2016 is up to date. This problem has been happening before but now it is getting on my nerves! I'm not sure if it's a bug or I'm doing something wrong. So, I would import an image to a rectangle that I would place on a wall to act as a backdrop. I would then put objects, in this case, glass shelving in front of the backdrop. Everything is good and gravy until I do a final quality render, and for some reason the glass texture (in this case the default Glass Frosted RT) would not show up on top of the backdrop. I made sure the backdrop is in the BACK ("Send Object To Back"), and yet it still appears to be ON TOP of the glass texture. I hope this made sense. Thank you in advance for any help! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 9, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 9, 2016 You will want to make a texture to properly place a 2D image in 3D renderings, then either apply it to a 3D object or create an Image Prop out of it: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/1129/Creative+Uses+for+Image+Props Quote Link to comment
Sambo Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Yeah I made sure it was imported properly, but still having an issue... Here I uploaded a couple images to give a better idea on what I'm seeing. This is the view in OpenGL This is halfway through a Final Quality rendering And this is after rendering is done Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 9, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 9, 2016 Ahh gotcha misunderstood the question. What are the parameters you have for the glass texture? The default glass and transparency settings are a bit too clear, you may want to darken absorption color and/or increase refraction. Also, make sure you are adding lighting to the scene, glass in Renderworks won't look proper without something other than the default lighting. Without shadows glass renders strangely. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 9, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 9, 2016 Actually, with this situation classes and layers wouldn't be good enough. It kind of needs some sort of intelligent per-line control of style, or a manually selectable kind of annotation that let you toggle the style of each line in the viewport separate from the actual geometry. Quote Link to comment
Sambo Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Added a point light and boosted refraction/set a dark absorption color, and something funky is still going on. It seem like right before the render is done it looks great (other than the backdrop skewing a bit), but once the render is done the glass is gone. And even the shadows don't appear on the image. Right before render completion After Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 9, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 9, 2016 Please send me that file at tech@vectorworks.net ATTN: Jim, I can take a look. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 9, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 9, 2016 There was still a 2D rectangle with an image fill for the backdrop, thats what was causing the weird appearance mid-render and making the glass not appear as expected. I deleted the rectangle, then used the Attribute Mapping tool to tweak the texture you correctly applied to the walls Right side. After doing this, the render came back far closer to expected, however the absorption and refraction changes i suggested earlier weren't needed, so I reset them closer to the default glass appearance. The VWX file with my edits is on its way back to you, let me know if thats closer to what you were looking for. (Another small tip: when using large blocks of glass or other transparent material, giving the edges of those solids a slight chamfer or fillet with the 3D chamfer or fillet tools goes a long way towards improving their appearance and it will play with the light and shadows a bit more like your eyes are expecting to see in a semi-realistic render. "Blur" also helps the appearance but it is IMMENSELY render-time intensive, only use it if you're sure you need it.) Quote Link to comment
Sambo Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Awesome! Thank you so much for taking the time to do all that. Yeah I had no idea that’s what I was doing wrong this whole time. And thank you very much for the tips. Great suggestions. As you can tell I’m still a little new to this ball game. Cheers, Sambo Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 9, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 9, 2016 No problem at all, it would have driven even a pro nuts without knowing what to look for. I'll check and see why such a strange hiding of transparent textured objects happened because of the presence of a 2D image filled object. Using image fills in 3D renderings isn't recommended for a number of reasons, but that shouldn't be one of them. Quote Link to comment
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