One of the new features in Vectorworks 2011 is the ability to use the camera to create a viewport. If you use this technique, you do not need to create a crop object, and you can edit the camera settings after the viewport is made, if you need to change…
Rendering in Vectorworks 2011, is it faster than 2010?
How to fix your image props for Vectorworks 2011.
How to fix your image props for Vectorworks 2011.
I think that Rendering is one of the fun parts of VectorWorks, You can see you buildings coming to life. Getting the lighting right and setting the correct rendering can take you some time.
Batch Render. This is the trick to make sure you do not tie up your computer when you want to be using it. After you have assigned the light, cameras, models and textures, and you have used the render bitmap tool to check everything, you can set up batch render jobs…
Render Bitmap tool. Adding area lights and line lights makes rendering very slow. I made a texture on the ceiling with a blur, which makes the rendering take longer as well. This has the effect of locking up your computer for 10 or 20 minutes at a time. This is not…
A point light is like a bare light bulb. The light goes out in all directions.
Directional Light. The directional light is like a sun, it’s an outside light. The directional light is the type of light that is placed when you use the Set Sun Position from the View Menu.
Environment Lighting. Environment lighting is the ability to place a kind of background to your model. Environment lighting uses something called HDRI (High Dynamic Range Image) and uses the light in the HDRI image to calculate the light. the effects can be very nice, but very slow.