Yes, but that doesn't really answer my question. Let's say that the color code for a 36° is
no-color and the color code for a 50° is white, how would you differentiate that on a color coded
plot?
Ah !, I thought you were talking about
gel colors.
In addition to having the
instrument fill being keyed off
gel colors, you can also user select any other colors from a couple of assorted palettes that VW allows. Full black is NOT one of them from what I'm seeing, but you can choose so close in dark grey to be useful. There are 258 some odd colors available including shades of grey, in 2
palette groups, so lot's of color options, exclusive of the
gel color (this is somewhat dependent on what your color printer can generate). As well as the
unit/symbol fill, you can also vary the
line color. So you could (in theory) do a fill of black for the 36 deg. units and nothing for the 50's. And if that were all the instruments you needed coded, you could use a B&W printer.
Trouble with this, is the process is currently buggy. To change the fill (or
line) color, you double click/highlight a
unit, which calls up the Lighting Device dialog box (never new this existed til this week, amazing what going back and reading the
manual can do). In this box is the ability to select the fill/
line color. All good, but as far as I can tell and find, you need to do this
unit by
unit !. I attempted to do a Find and Modify with "If Light whose
Instrument Type = S4 36" then "Select Them". With all the 36 deg S4's highlighted, I should be able - in theory (and this works with the
gel color selection) then do the double click to
call up the
Instrument Dialog and simply change the color to any selection, then click OK. Refresh instruments,
etc...
It's not working. This entire process has issues that VW is seemingly aware of. I just sent them this week a set of files detailing how this whole process has all sorts of bugs, especially when using the Lightwight. We'll see where this goes.
It certainly has a lot of potential uses that we are only just now exploring. I just today turned on the PM to the idea of color coding his
ground plans to have Audio separate from
deck props, from
deck electrical, separate from rigging comments,
etc... only to remember that he's using VW2009. So back to layers in B&W.