@juriaan said:

official plugins from Troikatronix

 Yes, that is the case. Currently we do not have a method of tracking versions of user actors. This is something we have discussed, I will make sure it's in the feature requests tracker for further discussion.

+1

hello,

an easy solution is the way to implemen,

we think.

r.h.

@skulpture

Don't worry, this one is already logged ;)

We'd love it if you could put this workaround on the TroikaTronix Add-Ons page (link in my signature) :)

Best wishes,

Woland

@bonemap said:

It would be helpful when porting projects with 3DS texture files that there be an option to locate or otherwise produce the disassociated file and reset the texture, rather than be told that 'the default color specified by the material will now be used instead of a texture map."

FYI:  It's a bit of a big ask because then we have to be able to update that file name in the 3DS file and write it out. Isadora knows how to read those files, but I have no equivalent code to write them.

For the moment you can expect that you'll need to change those files in a program designed to open, edit and modify 3D files.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@fred said:

 installed the direct show filter for NotchLC on windows and I can play notchLC files in windows media player when they are AVI files.  

Well, the Windows tool graphedt.exe is a developer tool that allows you to visualize a movie playback graph.

32 bit Version

When I run the 32-bit version, and select a NotchLC encoded AVI with the command File > Render Media File..., I see this and I can press the play button and the movie plays.

64 bit Version

When I try the same in the 64 bit version of graphedt.exe, I see this error:

The 64 bit version of graphedt.exe shows this as the graph diagram.

Note that there is a stream for rendering audio, but none for video. This would seem to prove that NotchLC drivers are not 64 bit compatible. And that means Isadora, which is a 64 bit app, can't play it either.

If you examine Windows Media Player, I am quite sure it is a 32 bit app and that's why it can play the files.

Sorry. I don't know what else to say.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@woland

ah, ok. a cousin with the same name..:-)

thanks

@woland

that's great, thanks you so much !

I had an Isadora dream last night. (in my defense: yesterday was the premiere of a new show - I've been mentoring the artists and they're using Izzy to run the video (2 projectors), sound, and lighting for everything, so it's been a pretty Izzy-heavy week) Anyway, in my dream I was able to add stuff from the control menu directly into the patch window.

this got me thinking: would it be a useful feature if user actors could be directly appended with control elements? where the little icon would be on a regular actor? the function could be the same, using control ID numbers, or maybe there's a special way of linking the control to the actor inside the user actor - this way the user actor could be re-used in different patches without ID conflict.

this would make it possible for an actor to display a monitor of what's going on inside it, kind of like the Eyes actors. or a switch/selector/slider/dial that could be a little clearer than clicking and dragging the green dot on an input.

I often operate shows directly from the scene window, and I think this functionality would really help.

(i mentioned a feature request on here a while ago where control elements could be free-floating in their own windows, rather than fixed in the control panel window, but this is slightly different in that the control could become integral to a user actor.)

what do you think?

@mark said:

Please @Woland log this as a feature request.

 Logged :)

Hi,

my first feature request, exciting.

Tired of placing 'trigger value 0' and 'trigger value 1' aside a 'Gate' to handle triggers from numerous directions,

where 'Toggle' only causes confusion, I made this little user actor

and discovered that a mutable input of an actor is no more mutable if connected to a 'User Input' inside a 'User Actor', althought set to 'Match Property'.

Any green dots for user actors available?

best

r

@emullis

It possible to use 3D line segments to create drawings. 
In this tutorial I use a 2D line actor, but its the same process to use a 3D line actor.

Draw with line segments.

Hopefully that's useful to you.

@lpmode

Thanks for the clear breakdown. 

I am adding these details to out feature request list.

I am recording this feature request.

thank-you

@kathmandale said:

Among other things it could be a neat way to help with the issues around accessing fps/DEF that @jfg raised on the other thread.

 Yes, I noted that in both feature requests. :)

@dusx All great info, thank you!

@dusx said:

<p> Are you not wanting to use the Font Panel to make changes to the Comment text? I'm a little unclear what you are wanting.</p>

Do you mean the UI settings in preferences? If I double click on the actor itself, I only get colour options for the background.

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Ah! I just figured it out! I was unaware of that option!! Fantastic.

I'd still love to be able to right-click on the actor and select the font panel.

Thanks for opening my eyes (again) to yet another thing in Isadora that I didn't know about!

Cheers,

Hugh

@m_theater

Hello Clemens,

Thank you for your suggestions and comments. 

You are right, it depends from the footage: sometimes it can be more or less acceptable, but most of the times it it not, unfortunately.

I actually do some sort of dithering using various types of noises (sometimes with the Shimmer actor), but that does not work all the times and on everything; one cannot achieve the same type of results as motion blurs in After Effects or even in Jitter, or what one could do in the past with Trails in GPU with Isadora 2.6, or TimeBlur in CPU, etc. Without speaking of the good old Wave from Peter Warden.

Best wishes,

jbb

@notdoc

You could create an User Actor that wraps the Jump actor, and uses some input to Gate on/off the Jump feature. Maybe use some Global value to switch the Jump state.
Of course you would then have to always use this Gated Jump as your Jump actor.

@mclefferson

Something that you might find helpful: https://community.troikatronix...
A method of using Luts in Isadora.