Custom seating row shift

[Dill]

Is there a possibility to change the row shifting in the seating section assistant? It seems, it calculates the shifting by the symbols width only. But if there is a different distance set between seats, it doesn't change the shift as to have it in the middle of the neighbour seat rows.

[TomWhiteLight]

To offset the rows change the row spacing field.

 

You can change this measurement from back leg to front leg or front leg to front leg in the seating tool preferences.

[Dill]

Sorry, what I meant wasn't the distance between the rows, but the offset of the chairs between rows.
In the seating section settings you can set the 'Alignment Type'
 

●        Shift Rows: seats are aligned with the boundary

●        Align Rows: seats in each row are aligned directly behind one another

●        Offset Rows: every other row is offset by half the width of the first seat

●        Distribute Rows: seats fill the boundary edge-to-edge; spacing is adjusted to distribute seats evenly in each row, with Seat Spacing treated as the minimum value

 

I want to have it on 'Offset Rows' wich means that a chair is offset a half position (to the left or right)to the chair in the row in front of it.
This is wanted to have the audience looking through the gap in between the two people in the next row in front of them. Like it often is done in Theaters or the movies.
This works fine for the standard situation. But for Covid limits where the distance between seats is much larger, it doesn't work anymore.
What i get is this:

 

 

 

What i would like to have is this...

Edited March 4, 2021 by Dill

[TomWhiteLight]

OK so I have done this using 2 seating sections, I will have take a look at the offset command within the seating section dialogue later.

 

Please see attached file. Is that what you meant?

 

All the bestOffset seating section x2.vwx

 

Tom W