greets all. a few questions re: photoworks (2007)
- sometimes, when reopening a model, I lose the "floor" reference. This usually only happens once per file, oddly enough. my model is still on the Top plane (XZ axis), but when i render the shadow drops down (as if the floor has fallen). I've been doing the same routine for quite some time: tweak floor offset, render. tweak floor offset, render again. until my model meets the floor and the shadows look right.
on new parts/assemblies this doesn't happen. will only happen if i screw around with the environment settings (*properties* of floors, walls, etc, not their relative sizes/positions) enough that a subsequent rendering drops the floor. then i'm stuck in the iterative loop mentioned above to have floor meet model.
- changing lighting schemes sometimes leaves me with more lights than i know what to do with in the feature tree. seems like they don't all go away when i change to a new scheme.
- screwing with the lights also makes my model's colors shift. as if the color of the previous light left some indelible mark on the model material.
failing any sort of solution to the above problems, is there any way to "reset" all the photoworks settings? (detaching/deleting entries in the feature tree doesn't always work).
note: i am not saving photoworks info in the file.. but they stay nonetheless when i close/reopen.
i don't use photoworks very often.. and am not very good at it. the new "studios" are a god send to my untrained eye.. till the floor falls out.
thanks, tony