by SeekLighting » 15 August 2018, 23:27
Hi mate,
Your first question is a little hard to understand. From what it seems, you are having trouble viewing your show in 3D View from Timeline? or from Live buttons page? I'm not sure which you are referring to.
Please Ensure the 3D View box is green only on the tab you wish to view. That means it should be red on all the parts of the software that you're not using to avoid any clashes.
As for your final question, there are plenty of fixtures that will not appear in 3D view, yes. The 3D view is designed to show only the most common types of lights:
Conventional lights (ie. tungsten bulb fixtures that run on dimmers)
LED PARs
Moving head wash
Moving head spot
Moving head beam
Strobes
Other weird cheap DJ effect lights like partybars, lasers, moonflower effects, astro raggis, weird coloured sphere things etc. do not work in 3D View as it would be a very difficult task for the programmers to go through and create models and light outputs for all the weird and wacky effect lights out there (there are thousands of different types).
You will be hard pressed to find a visualiser out there that supports these lights out of the box. I know for a fact Chamsys visualiser does not natively support these.
Regards,
Tim H