Some lights render away from focus points.

[SCParker]

Has anyone seen this? If so, did you find a solution? I'm sure it's something I've done to muck something up. I have a set of four focus points above my lights. In wireframe, with beams turned on, the beams draw towards the focus point. But, when rendering, some point in the opposite direction.

[scottmoore]

I have seen plenty of quirky things like this. Often, the answer can be relaunching the file. Sometimes you have to replace the lighting fixtures. Sometimes refreshing the lighting fixtures (command+/) will do the trick. 

 

Question; did you happen to use final quality renderworks to render your scene PRIOR to focus all of your fixtures?  There is a known bug that I refer to a "render cache" where occasionally the final quality render style will simply load a previously rendered image as opposed to tracking current updates to the drawing. The solution here, unfortunately, is to re-launch the file. A re-start of the application is usually not necessary. Very tedious indeed. 

[SCParker]

Found it. Inconsistent parts records. Though most of the units are in the same family of brand, the parts records had different mixes of settings.

[SCParker]

Rob, I re-imported the stock symbol from the VW library and it's fine. I tend to edit the symbols a bit and I likely did something strange to the record. Now that I've fixed the record issue, I'm re-editing the symbol imagery to match my liking.

Thanks for checking in.

Scott