MattG Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 I tend to draw a portion of a system to start and then get all my viewports set up for things. I often will do say a 3D view of some type of a truss or something that is more just for visualization not really for "rendering". I tend to just do these in a variant of open GL. My understanding is open GL uses a max of 8 lighting devices and gives priority to the last 8 light objects. My question is if there is a way when I add a new lighting device to a drawing to have the default on/off set to off for all existing viewports. The reason being that if I already set up the look for a viewport and it is good but I add a light that may be on in a layer or class that already exists it appears to start factoring into the rendering of that viewport and depending on the quantity take priority over existing devices. I feel like there is a setting for this I am missing but maybe not. Anyone have a solution for this? Thanks, Matt Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 I can't figure out a way to have newly added lights to not automatically turn on in all viewports. Hopefully someone who follows me will see this and reply. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee TomWhiteLight Posted March 12, 2021 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted March 12, 2021 Morning. I have done some digging this morning and I cannot see a way to do this. I see in the lighting Device plugin the default for 'turn on' is 100 so that when the instrument is placed it defaults to 'On' I kind of like this behaviour because after insertion I can then focus the light, see the results and hen turn it off, but I understand sometimes you want to quickly add lights without immediately focusing them. I will add this to the enhancement requests. Meanwhile the visualisation palate has a selected viewport check box but understand that the workflow could be more efficient. Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 An option similar to the option to show or not show new layers and classes in existing viewports, but for lights would definitely be a good idea. Quote Link to comment
Jesse Cogswell Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 I have been jumping back and forth between VW2019 and VW2021 lately and the Lighting Device defaulting to on in 2021 has been disrupting my workflow quite a bit (mostly because I'm not used to it after having them default to off for the last 10 years). It would be lovely if it were a setting in the Spotlight Document Preferences. Quote Link to comment
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