Applying Renderworks backgrounds

A Renderworks background can be applied to individual viewports, or to all design layers in a file.

Spotlight users can also set the Renderworks background with the Set Spotlight Rendering Options command; see Setting Spotlight rendering options (Vectorworks Design Suite product required).

To apply a Renderworks background to a viewport:

Select RW Background from the Object Info palette of a selected viewport.

If the viewport's Background Render is set to a Renderworks style that uses a Renderworks background, the background can not be changed from the Object Info palette; see Renderworks styles.

Command

Path

Set Renderworks Background

View

To apply a Renderworks background to design layers:

Select the command.

Alternatively, double-click on the resource from the Resource Manager or drag the resource into a design layer, or select a background on the Edit Design Layers dialog box. 

The Set Renderworks background dialog box opens.

Select the Renderworks background from a library or the current file.

When the drawing is rendered in a Renderworks or Shaded mode, the background is applied to all design layers. 

The Lit Fog weather effect requires a light source (point light or spot light) in the drawing with Lit Fog selected in the Object Info palette.

Lit fog effect

Concept: Renderworks backgrounds

Creating Renderworks backgrounds

 

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