fuberator Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 (edited) Hi Vision assigns a mix of color temperatures to imported fixtures. Megapointes, Source 4 and others get either warm or cold beam assigned in no particular order. I can set them all to the same by just re-entering the value in the color temperature field in vision, but I prefer not to have to touch anything in vision since I re-import frequently. Here is an example of the different whites on some of the aforementioned fixtures, this is true for highlighting in Vision as well so definitely no dmx coming in Does anyone know what this is about, am I missing something? Thank you Edited July 7, 2019 by fuberator added an image Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee bbudzon Posted July 8, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 8, 2019 I have seen this before but not quite this bad 😧 Is this happening in both ESC and MVR?? Quote Link to comment
fuberator Posted July 8, 2019 Author Share Posted July 8, 2019 (edited) Hi I know right? Its quite creative I just did a test. MVR does not mix up the temperatures. Unfortunately using MVR has not worked well with the file I am working with. Slow export, incomplete etc so I am stuck with ESC for now. Another VW employee has kindly offered to help me figure out MVR in another thread. Is MVR replacing ESC? Edited July 8, 2019 by fuberator 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee bbudzon Posted July 8, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 8, 2019 22 minutes ago, fuberator said: I know right? Its quite creative 🤣 22 minutes ago, fuberator said: I just did a test. MVR does not mix up the temperatures. I was worried this may be the case... 27 minutes ago, fuberator said: Unfortunately using MVR has not worked well with the file I am working with. Slow export, incomplete etc so I am stuck with ESC for now. Another VW employee has kindly offered to help me figure out MVR in another thread. My suggestion here would be to mix and match ESC and MVR to get the result you want. It seems like some things work in ESC and some things don't. Everything that does work in the ESC file format can be exported from VW into an ESC. Everything that doesn't work in the ESC file format can be exported from VW into an MVR. You can then open the ESC and Merge in the MVR (or open the MVR and Merge in the ESC, either way should work). 27 minutes ago, fuberator said: Is MVR replacing ESC? Absolutely. ESC is an incredibly buggy file format and not worth repairing. It will be faster and we believe more beneficial to our End Users to bring MVR import up to snuff. Quote Link to comment
fuberator Posted November 12, 2019 Author Share Posted November 12, 2019 So, in v2020 I am back at mixed color temperatures on import. This time its MVR... This is a bunch of PAR64 fixtures straight in from VW via MVR: Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee bbudzon Posted November 12, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 12, 2019 If you select a light that is "white", what is it's color temperature in the Property Window? If you select a light that is "amber", what it it's color temperature in the Property Window? It's been a while since I've seen this. Perhaps you could post/pm this file as well and we can see if we can reproduce and see what problems may exist in the code. Quote Link to comment
fuberator Posted November 12, 2019 Author Share Posted November 12, 2019 I had selected all and set them to 3200K, which had no effect. So i created a new document in vision and merged in the rig again to check for you, this time they came in correct. here is the MVR pyramid 1.1.zip Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee bbudzon Posted November 12, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 12, 2019 4 minutes ago, fuberator said: So i created a new document in vision and merged in the rig again to check for you, this time they came in correct. I'm glad that you managed to get things working! FWIW, I downloaded your zip, launched Vision 2020 SP2, clicked File->Open, navigated to your MVR, and opened it with default MVR Import options. All of the color temperatures seemed to be correct. Quote Link to comment
fuberator Posted November 12, 2019 Author Share Posted November 12, 2019 (edited) thanks Edited November 12, 2019 by fuberator Quote Link to comment
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