Kaare Baekgaard Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 (edited) I have finally taken the time to explore the Renderworks Style feature. It hides a cool feature, that is really useful: I can now separate the Renderworks background from the environment reflections. This means that I can now create much more realistic renderings on sheet layers with white and/or transparent backgrounds. For white backgrounds set the Vectorworks default compression to JPEG - Keep it as the 'default default' for faster renderings and much smaller PDF's But if you want to export sheet layers with perfect transparent background, change the default compression to PNG. Now, if you export a sheet as a PNG image with transparencies, all renderings on that sheet with a 'none' fill will export with perfect background transparency. I love it. Edited December 22, 2021 by Kaare Baekgaard spelling 2 Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Great tips, though FYI Renderworks Styles have been around for many years 🙂 The only new thing in 2022 is having Redshift as one of the options (in the Type dropdown). Quote Link to comment
Kaare Baekgaard Posted December 22, 2021 Author Share Posted December 22, 2021 14 hours ago, Andy Broomell said: Great tips, though FYI Renderworks Styles have been around for many years 🙂 The only new thing in 2022 is having Redshift as one of the options (in the Type dropdown). Thanks, Andy. I feel really stupid now 🙄 Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 (edited) Actually it's really cool. Exploring the latest version with fresh eyes can often lead to unexpected discoveries of old features. If there isn't a term for this we should invent one... here's an earlier post about exactly that. Thanks for sharing @Kaare Baekgaard. Edited December 22, 2021 by bcd 2 Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Exactly - there's always more to discover and never any reason for feeling stupid. 🙂 2 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Luis M Ruiz Posted February 10, 2022 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 10, 2022 Controlling the background and the reflections is one of the advantages of using rendering styles. This feature was introduced back in 2016. The use is really cool. imaging this, your background could be a desert but the reflection on your shiny model could be a snowy mountain. That sort of magic. 1 Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Luis M Ruiz said: Controlling the background and the reflections is one of the advantages of using rendering styles. This feature was introduced back in 2016. The use is really cool. imaging this, your background could be a desert but the reflection on your shiny model could be a snowy mountain. That sort of magic. @Luis M Ruiz Oh wait now—so if I get you; You have a theater, scene onstage with a set of 8'h x 3' wide mirrors, one upstage center, the others left and right of those & the reflection could be from a picture of the audience as reflection surface? And does that mean the reflection is 360º, or how do you control for that? Quote Link to comment
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