miguelZinfandel Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Hi HiveMind I am trying to build a dynamic Lighting Instrument. My reasoning: build a marionette network that draws the shape of the symbol based on information from a Record Format (eg: Width and Length of a Lighting Panel). Then I would wrap the network and convert to a Lighting Instrument Symbol. I have bumped into some issues that maybe you could assist with...: - I have managed to get a symbol with marionette encapsulated inside, but when I update the record field, It does't refresh/re-run the script. I have to enter the network and exit for the record field value to express itself. - Once I convert my symbol to an instrument with Spotlight>Object Conversion>Convert to Instrument, all "gets broken". Changes to the record field don't express themselves into the symbol, and the available fields from the "wrapping" become unavailable... What am I missing here? (example file attached) Many Thanks dynamic_symbol.vwx Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted September 12, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 12, 2019 The lighting device extracts the geometry from the symbol, so any special data or you have will be lost once the symbol is used by the lighting device. Quote Link to comment
miguelZinfandel Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 I see... Is there a way around this? Is this something that I couldn't achieve with Marionette, but could do by going under the hood with some coding? Miguel Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted September 13, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 13, 2019 No. The lighting device will always decompose the symbol and the marionette node will be lost. Quote Link to comment
miguelZinfandel Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 I see. Pity.. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
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