Thank you DusX.

The reason why I was using the Channel input of the 3D Renderer to select which particle stream to render was I thought having several renderers rendering 3D particles in the background may be a larger performance hit. Do you know if this is the case DusX? Cheers Guy

Ok, I think the problem is gone with v2.0.

I can't test it with the projector I struggled with for this project, but the bands have disappeared on my external Sony monitor. With and without " 'Disable Vertical Retrace Sync', I can see no difference here. I'l try to check it with some projectors, anyhow.   Thanks for your help!

ok, ill do it soon as possible!

thanks!

Hi Mark, Saw the saving feature, thats good to have. Will keep you updated. All the best, Alex

Thanks, shall do.

You have another setting for the stage to maintain aspect ratio, this is in the stage tab of preferences. That should fix #3.

In general (and please if I am off a little here correct me) Isadora will scale media until one dimension fits the projector area if keep aspect is ON. So if you have 720p video, and have a the stage set to 800x400 it will scale to fit the top and bottom edges (leaving black on the sides). If your stage is 400x800 (tall and narrow) it will scale to fit within this (1 edge matches without bleeding out), meaning the left and right sides will line up, and you will have a lot of black top and bottom. If you have 'keep aspect' set to off, the video will be stretched to fit the stage. If you wish to place video on the stage at its native resolution, use 'keep aspect' set to on, and calculate the percentage of the stage that the native video should occupy (by using the video size and stage size) and then setting the 'zoom' on the projector.

Hi Dbini,
Is it possible to send it a bug report ? http://troikatronix.com/support/isadora/
Sounds like it should be easy to recreate but sending it in creates a ticket number and assigns it into our priorty lists.
thanks
pd

@Olivier
In your scenes your keyboard watchers for the jump forward and jump backward by one scene are both set to the same keyboard watcher.  Infact it looks like the Keyboard Watcher is not set correctly. Did you try to set it to the spacebar? If so it looks like it didnt take the setting correctly, but also it would cause Isadora to attempt to jump BOTh forwards and backwards at the same time which could lead ot unexpected behaviour.

Can you try to use keys for those two jumps and see if this fixes the problem?

Well, in the short term, I would recommend that if possible you install Yosemite as a partition only at the moment, especially if your performance machine will be going into a show deadline in near future, since full testing on Yosmeite is still underway, especially if you are used to working with many different kinds of external hardwares, softwares and drivers etc.

Hi Jacques,
Can you file a bug report about the Movie Player issue, so we can track specific details better?  http://troikatronix.com/support/isadora/
thank you
pd

OK thanks very much Mark!

I'll try to switch it to "interaction" and see if the pan works automatically and that frame-rate is still good, if not, I'll just leave it as it is :)

Cheers!

@Michel Submitted a FR.

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Thank you @Michel, didn´t know that it was not possible in that direction.

All the best, Alex

Dear All,

Regarding the "Allow Network" connection prompt, when Isadora starts up, it creates a multicast send/receiver port. This is used to allow the Net Broadcaster actor to send messages without knowing the IP address of the other computers on the network. Perhaps it is the multicast part of the connection that OS X doesn't like.

The multicast address used is 0xE1000001, which 225.0.0.1

Maybe that allows you some clue as to how to get around the prompt. But it could also have to do with the fact that Isadora is not "code signed" -- see this article in Stack Overflow about Java apps.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2641254/java-app-on-mac-asking-for-allow-network-connections-everytime

I've been meaning to do the work to code sign Isadora so that Gatekeeper won't throw fits when you to try to install it. But, as always, I'm prioritizing features and the important bugs

I hope that helps in some way,
Mark

this has been fixed for the next beta release :)

@primaldivine and all:

Just to clarify something: when playing HAP movies in Isadora 2.0,  it is not a requirement that one choose set the 'optimize' mode to 'performance' in the new Movie Player. Isadora 2.0 will automatically use QT to play the movie. Thus, it will be in 'interaction' mode regardless of the setting of the 'optimize' input.

Best,
Mark

Will do!  Thanks very much.

I saw your reply to the support ticket. (simply replying to the conversation via email is the trick ;)

I will continue the conversation there.

Great, thanks Mark. Coming late to this party but very excited about BM integration... will request a test version, and will have an exorcist on standby in case the new code has unwanted metaphysical consequences.

Take care m

Looks great. I have been wondering who was going to be the first to do a project with a curved surface.

By the way, there is another crash I successfully keep recreating. When I am programming if I select with my mouse multiple actors and hit delete Isadora crashes right away.