@mark

Watching Guru Session #4 reminded me of this Feature Request, which although you agreed to implement this, has not yet been implemented.
So I am just bumping this up!

Thanks a lot

Mark

 - I just realised that if you had MIN and MAX as dynamic inputs, they would also need a MIN and MAX and INIT, etc, etc.... thus leading to an infinite rabbit hole of inputs - maybe its not such a good idea after all and we should just stick with Limit/Scale Value.

I would like to reformulate here a request than I made some time ago in an other thread: I am looking for other types of blurs than - or an enhanced version of - the standard Isadora's Motion blur.

Indeed, the current Motion blur, on some textures, makes 'spots', that is 'colour banding':

In Isadora 2.6, I was able to achieve something more satisfying with Trails, which unfortunately cannot work in Isadora 3.

It is possible to avoid such color banding in Max/Jitter just by forcing textures from 'char' to 'float32'. 

I presume it would be possible to adapt Isadora's Motion Blur code to do something similar in GLSL, is not it?

Let me precise that we have been several looking for all types of GPU blurs regularly and for a long time (actually years now) on places like ShaderToys and others, but could not find anything satisfying in terms of quality so far.

Best wishes to all in these difficult times!

jbb

It would be cool to be able to use multitouch input, particularly from things like the apple magic trackpad, which also gives kind of blobs, the touches are not points but ellipses as they react to force.

This one might be a bit far out, but would be super useful especially now in isolation. But it would be amazing to have websockets integrated into Isadora as an actor. Websockets are a very fast protocol for sending and receiving messages over the internet. This would not allow for direct connection of multiple machines over the internet, but does require a server. There are quite a few websocket services that can be rented for a monthly fee, this fact alone makes it less appealing, and that to do it these days it also requires linking to some kind of crypto lib like openSSL. However, with these two hurdles overcome, the communication is really fast. https://libwebsockets.org/ is an open source c++ project with an MIT license (not sure if that fits with Isadoras model either) that is pretty cool for sending and receiving data over the internet.

Most likely a hassle to integrate and maintain, and low on the list of priorities, but just in case...

Support :) I would love to see what recently has been updated.

@nandada said:

In Max if I am remembering correctly the export as a project feature creates new asssets folders that can be exported onto a portable hard drive together with MaxRunTime (the player) and the project file.

 @Juriaan is correct about creating a seperate topic for each idea. This helps us to organize our list and other users can upvote the individual ideas which helps us to rate how important they are.

I will say one thing regarding the MAX runtime: if you put a copy of Isadora on that drive, and then the .izz file and media together in a folder, you get almost the same thing. The user would simply double-click the .izz file you've prepared, it will open Isadora in demo, and they can run everything you've created. They just won't be able to save any changes. While it is not bundled into it's own application, it ends up working the same.

Best Wishes,
Mark

Probable the biggest one is to update the old FF Wave actor. It is so beautiful and has a powerful emotional resonance I have not been able to recreate using any alternative. I've created my own new wave actor for running in 3 using the Motion blur actor and a sound level watcher to give it a more fluid character, but the motion blur actor has a problem in that it bleachs out the figures most of the time. I have not been able to find a work around for that. Another more subtle problem is that the motion really is a blur rather than the ripples on a pond esque movement of the FFwave actor. I realize it is only one actor and everyone is really busy but I think not having it in the tool box is limiting artist expression. I gave it a shot with my limited programming chops, but alas came up short.

@mark thankyou so much for this.. i was beating my head against the wall too and tried everything.. but yes this is a great solution.. i found some blurs that work great! especially a GLSL one that has tons of paramaters and isnt slowing me down noticably.. i really appreciate all that you do. 

A number of systems (youtube included) simple give you a predefined selection of thumbnails to pic from.
So perhaps a default of position 0% as it is, but with the option of changing a thumbnail to use 10% 25% 50% or 75% as alternative thumbnails.

I would like to see an Isadora Actor that would allow me to adjust the audio gain db level from within my Isadora patch. When working with live audio from a microphone, sometimes the volume of the live sound is far to high or low to reliably activate the sound frequency watchers and I must go to the live capture settings to adjust the db level up or down. The next time I use Isadora the db level does not return to 0db and causes problems until I remember to reset it. 

Thank you for your consideration.

It would be absolutely amazing if this program could be used to create apps that could be run without downloading Isadora or even video effect plugins like Max or PureData do for audio. Just a suggestion.

@15fellowsjo said:

I know this might of been asked a few times, but is there a chance of having a countdown actor for minuets / seconds? 

 I took the liberty of changing the title of your post so people will get a clearer idea of what you're asking from the title.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@videosmith said:

you can see my test here - https://bluejeans.com/s/OGg8A/ - there is no apparent OS zoom effect being streamed / recorded.

 Yes, I think some apps "see" this and some don't unfortunately. I am grateful that OBS sees it because I use it all the time for the guru sessions.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@dillthekraut said:

It would be great to have the possibility to use some simple markup language to interpret the text in a .txt, like HTML.

Yes, I can see that this is something that would be useful. We have taken note of your feature request.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@notdoc said:

thanks. it's outside my current knowledge base, but that's definitely something to explore. Meanwhile Michel has shown me a few things to try with the functionality of the Text Chopper.

I'm late to the party but you may also want to take a look at using the Data Array actor if you want to mess around with different "lines" of text. Mark did a Guru Session on it which you can find in our knowledgebase section: https://support.troikatronix.com/support/solutions/articles/13000075028-guru-session-3-data-manipulation-with-the-data-array-actor

@bonemap
Hi,

Improvements in the way Isadora manages 3D would be great, as you suggest Russel, a 3D space with coordinates and the ability to control the camera precisely.
This could be beneficial to illumination by implementing spot lights parameters too.

All the best.
Clement

@juriaan

Another +1 from me

hi could your pb be solved using user actors ? you can insert a projector in a user actor, modify it's mapping/blend and then close macro asking "save and update all" which could avoid repetitive mapping to each one in you patch... 

what I you create empty project with a specific midi configuration and save it as " blankmidiconfig#1 "

then create another midi config and save it as " blankmidiconfig#2 " ? would it help?