dropped shadows

[Phil hunt]

all

again been trying the new features and have no problem in getting the dropped shadow effect to work on a design layer in plan view but when i create a viewport it does not update to show the dropped shadows

i have rendered in hidden lines do i need to render in another mode to make the dropped shadows appear 

 

thanks

 

[Phil hunt]

example

[Matt Panzer]

Hi Phil,

The drop shadow is a 2D attribute and only displays in Top Plan views. When you render a Top Plan view in anything other than Wireframe, the viewport changes to a 3D Top view.

[Phil hunt]

thanks again matt any particular reason why this is the case 

[PVA - Admin]

Top/Plan is the only 2D view in Vectorworks. 2D Drop Shadows is only for showing shadows in Top/Plan since in 3D views you could have regular shadows already from 3d light sources and there is no need for "false" 2D shadows.

[Phil hunt]

good reply jim.....didn't think of it that way 

[Matt Panzer]

Drop shadows are purely 2D attributes. Having them work in 3D would, in many cases, result in undesirable results because the shadows would be applied to the projected geometry and not the actual 3D geometry. For example, drop shows would look like this for this chair.

 

Edited October 3, 2016 by Matt Panzer

[Phil hunt]

yep...but i think that looks really good as an effect

 

[Matt Panzer]

Well, you CAN apply a drop shadow to a viewport to get that, but that will apply to everything in the viewport.