@skulpture Always nice to have an option. But I would't add too much distracting vsual information personally. What I love about the controls is that they limit the patching view to the essentials... Just a personal note.

@armando said:

@woland @$@@%%$$ !!! DIDN'T KNOW ! My bad...

 No worries, I'm not annoyed. I'm glad actually. It gave me a chance to wrap up this topic by saying the feature now exists, whereas before this topic was just marked as [LOGGED].

@jfg said:

but not if you use a jump actor to go back.

I made a quick test file and it seems to work as expected for me. I've got my settings to scroll 3 Scenes into view and going to the end and pressing "a" a few times does make three Scenes appear to the left of the currently active Scene when I'm going backward.

Gif: https://recordit.co/kA8l8trOwV

File: jump-scene-scroll-test.izz

@woland said:

it'll mutate the inputs of the Selector to the oddball font data type

 Handy find. I can see myself using this.

@demetri79 Ambisonics might be hard although I can see my 3rd order ambisonic microphone Audio Unit plugin inside Isadora. My microphone is a Zylia ZM1

@jpg-wav

Its true that there are many ways to achieve this, but each takes a moment to implement. I can see the possible time savings this feature might offer.

It is now added to our feature request database. Thank-you

@acmsinclair

Look into GLSL Shaders

It would be helpful, in the preferences/general tab, to have the option to pull thumbnails from the middle of a clip. I have many clips that start black and then an animation begins. The thumbnail currently show these as just black frames.

@simon said:

I've set the OSC port in Isadora Prefs to 3333

 I believe this is your problem.

In the screenshot, you've got the OSC IN port on OBS for OSC as 3333 and OSC OUT port as 53000.

The port in Isadora Preferences is the port on which Isadora receives OSC so I think you've got your ports switched in OSC for OBS, meaning both applications are listening on port 3333.

I think these should be your settings:

ISADORA
Isadora Preferences OSC Port (OSC port for Isadora to receive OSC from OSC for OBS and other applications): 3333OSC Transmit Actors (OSC port for Isadora to send OSC to OSC for OBS and other applications): 53000

OSC for OBS

OSC IN (OSC port for receiving OSC from Isadora and other applications): 53000OSC OUT (OSC port for sending OSC to Isadora and other applications): 3333

For any interested parties, I made a patch that allows for Soft Crops in Isadora: soft-crop-2024-02-28-3.2.6.izz

Also, for rounded soft cropping, you can use a round Shapes actor (set the 'facets' input to '128') instead of Background Color actor with this same setup, or just use the TT Vignette GLSL Shader.

I'd also welcome an overhaul of Isadora's 3d capabilities, support for more filetypes being a necessary first step. Perhaps we could start a thread in feature requests to show the team what we'd like to see, and that there are users wanting better features for the 3d workflow. Personally, I would love a more intuitive camera system.

@eight said:

Why not combine all these three actors into one?

Because a User Actor can do exactly that.

DOWNLOAD: 3d-player-stage-orientation-and-get-stage-image-2024-03-25-3.2.6.zip

@bonemap Thank you for your reply and the link to that thread! I had a feeling the limit might have something to do with the whole cycles thing. I will admit that I neglected to search the forum before asking this question, such is the danger of posting late at night. Hopefully the repeat topic will show that there is continued interest in pushing the limits of these actors. Maybe we'll get an answer this time around, now that hardware has advanced 5 years and gotten more powerful, as you pointed out.

Best,

JPG

Vaguely related to this: FR: Draw a link out of the node and propose suitable nodes to connect this link to | TroikaTronix Forum

I think I made a feature request for this ages ago, but it would be super useful if the list that appears when you double click in the workspace to search for an actor was programmable. If I could have my top 10 most used actors in there, I would be delighted.

Cheers,

Hugh

@woland The reason for this is two fold:

1. To save two clicks (useful when creating a patch in real time during rehearsals)

2. To suggest the shorter list of available items –– useful for seasoned isadorians and people who only start learning it.

As I wrote before, coming from Unreal Engine to Isadora, the absence of this functionality feels like Isadora's shortcoming.

It's not the same, but it does provide some powerful envelope controls, so it might provide related flexibility. My Advanced Envelope Scrubber allows complex envelopes to be scrubbed thru (rather than the play/stop options found in the standard envelope actor). You can then change the shape of the envelope live as you control the playback of the scrubber. The example file is focused on scrubbing through background scenes, but the output (listed as Fade Intensity) can be used as a simple numeric scale in your patch in any way you like.

@woland said:

I'll log this but in the meantime, I made you a User Actor that does this: actors-user-media-search-by-name-user-actor-2024-05-09-3.2.6.zip

 That's awesome! Thank you so much. I will put this into action and see how it works.

Amazing!

Cam

Another request (sorry!)

As the title says it would be great to be able to change the colour/color of individual scenes. Even a selection of 8/12/16 would be enough - a basic palette so you can identify 'key' scenes, Work in progress scenes or anything that makes sense to you as the user.

Hi 

Thank you so much for sharing the information.

Thanks

@fred said:

FYI I found my post from 2020 asking for numeric pixel based control in the output mapper.:

 So I was correct when I wrote above that it's probably been requested before.