Hi,here is something to quickly draw masks with the mouse. I misused 'motion blur' as a buffer. With the mouse-wheel you can adjust the size of the circle/square/triangle (keys c, s, t) and with 'r' you toggle to adjust the rotation. Arrow up/down adjusts 'gaussian blur' for softer egdes. 'x' for reset. As well fun to draw with.best radhocmask.izz

after some thought these are my considerations:Since I use Isadora , must be 15 -years now (licence 00077), I use it professionally. These years Isadora has contributed in various ways (from RAD, to pre-viz to deploy) to more than 50% of my income.Many of my Isadora projects still work standalone after years, mostly on windows machines after being developed on mac. (Tells it all)The actual money I ever spent for the software is way less than the smallest job I ever did. So even if the price triples, for a pro it's almost "shareware" compared with what it actually is capable of (including the superb community).The other software packets I use a lot are all open-source and fully capable of professional use too. (SuperCollider, Processing/Eclipse, Arduino, GLSL). But nothing can do what Isadora does when it come to my actual improvised workflow.Off course not all users do earn their living (yet) by using Isadora (or are happy to have a pro-hobby), and as much that I stress the pro angle of pricing I am in favour of easy access for beginners.But then it's not all money isn't it ? There is another element that could be strengthened in this context:Transmission of (pro) experience in exchange for contemporary ideas, half-ideas, thoughts. I am 62 years of age and in the biz for more than 20. I was a professional sound engineer before. I know what a gig is. I have my ideas (old-fart?), know-how, experience et cetera. I currently have no pupils. I would like to have one and am prepared to pay for his licence for a limited period in exchange for discussing ideas and sharing patches. My gain would be to keep living happily out-of-touch with contemporary (mostly juvenile) technology-adrenaline while being informed somehow. Another gain is to learn from a pupil. That's what I think.Kind regards to everybodyHairi

Here is another one panel I seem to use once in a while for programming OSC commands for Resolume. I made one first a long time ago to allow an assistant that did not know isadora but knew Resolume to program cues. I found it helpful for myself as well.  Isadora scenes are triggered over OSC from Qlab but also by keyboard. The long slider corresponds to a layer. The position of the slider corresponds to a clip number in R6. The short slider is a fade time that in R6 is can be programmed per clip. The scenes just cut on a 0 count so they immediately trigger the values.  On a side note, the combo is super powerful, it allows for editing media without activating any scenes, or affecting the output. 

@craigw said: Hi, If I mix a standard projector and a 3D project I can never get the 3D to be the layer under, Changing layer numbers has no effect, it's always on top. I would correct @DusX here regarding this being a "known issue," i.e., a bug. It's actually a design decision that was made with some thought behind it.The 3D Space and the 2D Space in Isadora are separate. That's why you can't layer in the way you were hoping.In the 3D space, one must consider the depth (z-coordinate) when rendering objects to see if they are on in front of or behind each other. That way, when you move objects around they will obscure each other appropriately. (I.e., there's a sphere behind a cube and it is totally or partially obsured; but then you move the sphere forward and appears in front of the cube because it's closer to you.)In the 2D space (i.e., the Projector actor), there is no z coordinate, which means you can't really render that image in the 3D space. (What's the Z-coordinate? What would obscure what?) My decision was to do it this way: render all of the 2D material first, and then render the 3D objects on top of that, so that the 2D space becomes a background to the 3D space.Hopefully that makes things clear.Best Wishes,Mark

Workaround method of drawing Polygons.I just posted a method as a reply to a Question Fred had.It might be useful to address this usecase as well.https://community.troikatronix...

@dbini. very interested 

@dillthekraut said: sorry to be an smart ass It is always good to have robust discussion about technical aspects. I love the science behind projection and the physics of light, but it is not an area of complexity that I can claim any authority or depth of knowledge, I am a dumb ass when it comes to technical logistics. I appreciate your comments and I will look into learning more about the technical aspects of projection design and adjusting my terminology to reflect the science better. Best wishes Bonemap

@DillTheKraut @DusX ,thanks for your reply after deinstalling the vcredist and reinstalling it is finally working. I wouldn't have expected that it is so fragile, but can't say for sure which version i installed in the first place.@mark is it an option to link izzy against a local version of the dll as DusX has described it above ?Thanks for your help.best clemens

@ianps  A very advanced approach to this problem, that I believe should work near perfectly (although I am not aware of it ever being developed to this extent).Is to use Isadora's Javascript actor to utilize the box2dweb physics library (used in Angry birds and more). This video shows a Proof Of Concept I made some time ago, that is a good starting point to move ahead from. The idea would be to model the human body using primitives (shapes actor), and group these shapes in code to track as an object via box2dweb.Once the model is working as required, you can simply turn it off to save cpu cycles (I would put all the drawing into a User Actor), and only utilize the numeric data required for the collision detection.This is a fairly large job, but should allow for very accurate collision detection of anything that has a XY (even better if it can be described as a primitive, to allow collision detection on it outer edge) Attached is the Isadora file, and associated JS files, for the DEMO shown in the Proof Of Concept video.note: the JS code includes links to numerous resource sites, that I used to put this demo together. I suggest looking thru these to find examples of shape grouping. Box2Dweb.zip

@dillthekrautIt's there:

Cool, thanks for sharing everyone. Does anyone have any experience with the Native Instruments TRAKTOR KONTROL S4?

you can also use Artnet for output. Dmxking has nice artnet 2 dmx nodes available.I have worked with these often.

Not sure if this helps?

I have worked around this by putting the Set Global actor in a User Actor, that using a 'User Actor on/off' I have defaulting to OFF.This way the SET doesn't send, until I set it to ON.I suggest having the ON/OFF as the bottom input, and all other value inputs above (set them before setting the on/off to ON) This is preferred since Isadora goes thru the Inputs top to bottom.rootinside user actor