Heliodon: sun brightness setting very unreliable

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Does anyone else have this problem all the time?

 

It seems that if you change the "sun brightness" setting of a heliodon, whether that actually takes effect is highly unreliable.

 

I can do a rendering with it set at 100%, then change it to 50%, redo the rendering, and sometimes I'll see a difference and sometimes I won't.

 

I can't work out a consistent way of getting around it: making a new heliodon and changing the setting on that? Duplicating the heliodon and then changing the setting? Closing and opening the file? Quitting and reopening Vectorworks?

 

Is there something somewhere I might be missing?

[Markvl]

Well you're not alone.  Hope that makes you feel a little better.  It certainly is inconsistent and less so at least for me with vw2020.  I've had to do all the things you posted and that would usually fix it.  Just a shame that one has to go thru all that to make it work when it's not working.

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There are so many bugs with the Heliodon tool, it's hard to know which one is causing a problem at any one time.