Kingstone Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Open GL shadows present but Realistic Interior Fast no shadows? Quote Link to comment
Kingstone Posted August 9, 2018 Author Share Posted August 9, 2018 2 minutes ago, ReXeR said: Open GL shadows present but Realistic Interior Fast no shadows? Test render 080918.vwxCouldn't find revision of post so ill reply here. One heliodon in file all other lighting sources turned off. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Luis M Ruiz Posted August 10, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted August 10, 2018 This one is a mystery. Working on it... 2 Quote Link to comment
Kingstone Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 Many thanks, I moved the furniture out of the room, and it actually displays shadow on the outside of the wall. I think for the default rendering setting there should be a set to default button since in one's adjustments for the right final look can complicate things. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Luis M Ruiz Posted August 10, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted August 10, 2018 I noticed in your file that all textures are set to receiving no shadows and all of them have no preview. I assume at some point you created a texture from an image? That triggered a problem and corrupted the rest of the materials. I know the solution here is to transfer all to a new fresh file but the steps for transferring the materials I'll have a ask my friends over here. 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Luis M Ruiz Posted August 10, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted August 10, 2018 The problem is not with the rendering styles, it has to do with materials. Also, I noticed you added an image to the glass, something that looks wavy, frosted. I'd recommend you make use of noise-turbulence and increase the size to 400%, that'll get you the effect you are looking for. 2 Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 I spent some time with the file yesterday and couldn't solve it. I did have success pasting the geometry into a clean file. It wasn't the only thing I did so in the end I couldn't replicate my success a second time. Things I noted - The shadow was very faint in my one success. I tried making the glass panes thinner (its set to 1"), changing textures and finally making the panels empty. None of these fixed the issue. I never could get it to work in Realistic Interior Fast, even in a clean file where the Renderworks style was newly added. I only had it working in Realistic Exterior Fast. I toggled the Heliodon location, time of day and Renderworks Only options. I think it may have something to do with the background, since when it finally rendered properly the background was very different than in the other attempts. Kevin Quote Link to comment
Kingstone Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 Hahaha, that is funny those materials are from Vectorworks default layout furniture. Why is the storefront wall is not admitting those shadows into the room is part of the mystery. I am currently working on inserting all objects into another new drawing without the default furniture setup I downloaded into the existing drawing. We will figure it out of this i am sure. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Luis M Ruiz Posted August 10, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted August 10, 2018 Try not to use that same glass material. Use other simpler glass textures, no images. Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 I took a look at your file and it seems that its in the textures, which when after you edit them revert back to the same state they were before.... Odd! 1 Quote Link to comment
Kingstone Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 Please delete furniture, which is a grouped and may be an issue in itself, out of the drawing and start with a fresh new file, just copy and paste Vectorworks walls and floor. That should make it cleaner to inspect? Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 4 hours ago, markdd said: I took a look at your file and it seems that its in the textures, which when after you edit them revert back to the same state they were before.... Odd! Yes, the sample object size in the Texture dialog also is resetting to a size of zero. I remember another thread with this issue. I wonder if they're related. Kevin Quote Link to comment
jbtroost Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 19 hours ago, Luis M Ruiz said: The problem is not with the rendering styles, it has to do with materials. Also, I noticed you added an image to the glass, something that looks wavy, frosted. I'd recommend you make use of noise-turbulence and increase the size to 400%, that'll get you the effect you are looking for. I follow the Forum on Mobile to beta test new iOS quirks. Used Nomad uploading the file vis GoogleDrive & put it on my coffee table. I saw all textures on materials in both walkthrough and AR. Walls have shadows, but there is no floor. Funny thing, I could click on the glass to make it transparent… Don’t know if that is a bug or a feature, but it looked kinda cool! Looks like your render settings were a big help to do so! 1 Quote Link to comment
Kingstone Posted August 11, 2018 Author Share Posted August 11, 2018 Luis, Mark & Evan, If you duplicate my simple setup, concrete wall, bamboo floor and storefront wall from scratch and finalize a rendering with Realistic Interior Fast shadows I would appreciate attaching the file for my review. Thank you again for the continuing efforts. Quote Link to comment
Gadzooks Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 On 8/9/2018 at 7:14 PM, Kingstone said: Couldn't find revision of post Help for next time.. Quote Link to comment
Kingstone Posted August 12, 2018 Author Share Posted August 12, 2018 aha, a nubes rush to post, thanks Quote Link to comment
Kingstone Posted August 13, 2018 Author Share Posted August 13, 2018 (edited) I was wondering why a wall in 'object mode' receives rendered shadows, but the same wall in 'component mode' does not. The default textures of the component parts of Vectorworks walls seem to be resisting edit. You can see this issue in the two viewports on the sheet layer of this 55 MB file. Of which i am now having a problem uploading? Edited August 13, 2018 by Kingstone File not uploading Quote Link to comment
Guest Selin Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 This looks like a corrupt file in the debugger. I can't even create new textures in this file. Can you create a new RW texture? We need the steps that lead to this corruption. I've heard from some that textures stop responding to changes after an image texture is created, but this is not confirmed. Could it be something like this? Quote Link to comment
Kingstone Posted August 14, 2018 Author Share Posted August 14, 2018 (edited) Here are contents from Tech Support email concerning this issue: "It looks like the issue is linked to an error that is occurring in the file. It appears as though the textures on the wall are “breaking” and the ability for them to receive shadows is being disabled by something in the file. At this time we cannot figure out what it is, but we are working with our engineers to determine what could cause the issues. My best suggestion at this time is to remove the texture from your walls in the viewport (specifically the one that you are trying to display the shadows on) Let me know if you have any questions, Thanks," If this issue exists with components that I inserted from Vectorworks, I hope it get resolved quickly. I looked at some of my older files with more or less the same content and shadow rendering seems to be fine with walls in component mode. The real test is for anyone to create their own file from scratch in order for me to eliminate the fact that only my files are all corrupt. Edited August 14, 2018 by Kingstone additional thoughts Quote Link to comment
Kingstone Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 This rendering issue has been with the "engineers" according to technical support since August 14. In the meanwhile I have found that I've been using a Vectorworks template 'Architect (Imperial).sta' that will not render shadows in component mode, not using them and starting a blank file does not suffer from the issue. I haven't time to go through all of the templates but the problem is in most of them. If someone can test them on their spare time I would be interested in the results. Thanks again for all of the participating members and tech people. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Luis M Ruiz Posted August 27, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted August 27, 2018 @Kingstone That was a great piece of information, the fact that you started with a template gave us the clue we needed. We are on it. 3 Quote Link to comment
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