Brandon Wardell Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 I'm posting this here because I specifically work as a lighting designer and rely on Spotlight heavily. If it's more appropriate for the Renderworks forum I'll send it over there. I'm working on a heavy rendering project right now, designing a piece of musical theatre. I have modestly sized figures, and moderately complex set (i.e. no mirrors or glass), and only a dozen or so instruments so far. Each time I go to render, either in the Design Layer or in the Viewport, the system lags for over a minute before it actually starts rendering (shows the teapot and changes anything on the screen). This is extremely frustrating and not a behavior I've seen before, unless this is the "pre-render" time that used to be labeled at the bottom of the screen. I have already tried restarting the program and purging my system caches and have closed anything that could possibly be stealing memory... Any help would be appreciated! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted May 16, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 16, 2016 What rendering mode are you using? Do you get the same lag if you tried OpenGL as well as a Renderworks mode? Quote Link to comment
Brandon Wardell Posted May 16, 2016 Author Share Posted May 16, 2016 (edited) Fast and Final Quality Renderworks primarily, though OpenGL is also effected. Edited May 16, 2016 by Brandon Wardell Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted May 17, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 17, 2016 If you can get the file to me at tech@vectorworks.net ATTN: Jim, I can take a look for some common culprits. Quote Link to comment
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