VW 2021 sp 3: moving multiple fixtures - lost Z values

[e26Design_marc j]

If you select multiple fixtures that have different Z values across ladders and stands and whatnot and move them in any way (nudge, [CTR M], drag and drop, etc), they all take on the same Z value.  For instance, if you've just re-spaced, re-trimmed and jiggered your 5 trusses full of lights until your new rig is just about perfect (multi-rung ladders included to make it all the more frustrating) then grab them all and move them a few feet upstage, you will discover that all of the ladder fixtures are now at the same height of the closest truss they were near.  Its not consistent - you can move them a few times just fine then all of a sudden you blink twice, change your view and look again: all the ladder fixtures have jumped to the truss height.  

 

If you thought you might like to take that whole arrangement, maybe even as a group and move them into a new document, let's say one with a venue, scenic, seating and audio layout in it already?   Don't bother unless you want to re-trim all your lights, again... This one is consistent - copy from one doc, paste to another - bye bye ladders!  (see screenshots) Anyone else have the same thing happen?  Is this documented somewhere?

 

 

[klinzey]

@e26Design_marc j Can you post your file? I tried a simplified example with only a few lights and I could not reproduce the issue in SP3.

It's likely that the lights on the ladder were not properly associated with the ladder and when it was moved the lights found the truss and were automatically associated with the truss.

You can control this in the Spotlight Preferences. In your situation you may want to turn off the option "Enable auto positioning when moved" and/or make the pick radius smaller.