Steve Clarkson Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I've been reluctant to make this comment until now, but I'm facing tight deadlines and it's affecting my productivity, here goes... When I adjust shutters or make other changes to light instruments, I often (randomly!) cannot see the results unless I save the project, close the project, close the app, restart the app, re-open the project, re-render. For a piece of software that costs this much, it's pretty frustrating. <-- UNDERSTATEMENT. Here's today's example, the shutter settings and the render, plus yesterday's render with actual shuttering (same instruments/settings - all that's changed since this is lowering the truss, and trying to re-adjust shutters). Cheers. Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I don't know if this is the case with you, Steve, but I have often found that if lights are turned on in the viewport but are off on the Design Layer, then the shutters aren't generated and you get the results you are seeing today. This is because the Lighting Device will only generate the shutter assembly geometry when a light is turned on in the design layer. Quote Link to comment
Steve Clarkson Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 Hi Mark, Yes the lights are on in the design layer, I generally render from the design layer and only create viewports when I'm closer to needing client renders. Quote Link to comment
Steve Clarkson Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 Incidentally, now it's started working again. As I mentioned this is random. Quote Link to comment
Steve Clarkson Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 One thing I did notice. With the results above, I was attempting to edit the shutters of 2 selected instruments simultaneously, as they are mirrored SL/SR. Perhaps that's the root? I can;t speak to this being common to my other instances of the problem however. Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 41 minutes ago, markdd said: I don't know if this is the case with you, Steve, but I have often found that if lights are turned on in the viewport but are off on the Design Layer, then the shutters aren't generated and you get the results you are seeing today. This is because the Lighting Device will only generate the shutter assembly geometry when a light is turned on in the design layer. Hello @markdd; by "…I have often found…" do you mean replicably often? And what's the diff to a lighting instrument whether it's on or off in a DL or a VP? Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 17 minutes ago, mjm said: Hello @markdd; by "…I have often found…" do you mean replicably often? And what's the diff to a lighting instrument whether it's on or off in a DL or a VP? I was working on a couple of drawings about 9 months ago and I had problems with shutters not appearing in viewports, despite being set up from the design layer. I narrowed it down to the fact that the Lighting Devices were off in the design layers and only turned on as a Viewport Overrides from a sheet layer. I noticed that the shutter geometry is only generated when a light is turned on. When it is turned off then gobo textures and shutter geometry disappears. Yes, the last sentence is replaceable every time. Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Just now, markdd said: I was working on a couple of drawings about 9 months ago and I had problems with shutters not appearing in viewports, despite being set up from the design layer. I narrowed it down to the fact that the Lighting Devices were off in the design layers and only turned on as a Viewport Overrides from a sheet layer. I noticed that the shutter geometry is only generated when a light is turned on. When it is turned off then gobo textures and shutter geometry disappears. Yes, the last sentence is replaceable every time. Well that explains a problem I'd been having, thanks. Quote Link to comment
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