Plants Don't Auto Rotate in 3D Renderings

[Sky]

I'm trying to get the plants I've placed into the site to auto rotate. The 3D Graphics image prop has Crossed Planes and Auto Rotate checked off but it doesn't rotate in my renderings. What am I doing wrong?

[AlanW]

@Sky The image prop doesn't actually rotate, it faces the viewer all the time if the auto rotate is checked and appears 3D only. Unchecked you can see it as a flat plane. (I stand corrected)

[Sky]

Thank you for your response Alan, but I'm not sure how this helps me. When I do a 3D rendering, they are clearly not rotating towards the viewer. I don't have a lot of experience using plants in Vectorworks, but I have used image props many times and never had a problem with the image prop not rotating when the option is checked. 

[AlanW]

@Skymmm possible try a new clean drawing, possibly a bugged file.

Add a small sample file. here for us to look at please

Edited August 7, 2017 by Alan Woodwell

[Sky]

I made a simple file with 4 plants and a viewport with a 3D view.

Landscape_Test.vwx

[Sky]

I'm looking at it more carefully, and I think they are auto rotating. But the cross planes are causing it to cast shadows on itself. I tried unchecking Cross Planes in the image prop, but it is still showing as cross planes in 3D. The other option would be a way to turn of shadows for the plants, but I haven't been able to figure that out either. 

[AlanW]

I see your issue. Open GL in the VP renders correctly but Final Quality Renderworks shows the Cross planes.

Will look further.

[zoomer]

I think auto rotate doesn't work when crossplanes activated.

I use autorotate flat only.

 

Maybe non hiding crossplanes in final render is just related with RW

problems not updating the geometry cache (?)

and it would work after restarting VW (?)

[Sky]

On 8/7/2017 at 11:43 PM, Alan Woodwell said:

I see your issue. Open GL in the VP renders correctly but Final Quality Renderworks shows the Cross planes.

Will look further.

 

EXACTLY!!!