@gaspar Thanks very much!

How very exciting! I am looking forward to digging in. We just finished a proof of concept show for our project a couple weeks ago with great success and are building to a larger production now. Looking forward to the pythoner, the show/hide controls, user actor help, and the cool new look. I am so happy to see all of the new developments. Congratulations to all of you on the new version release!

Best, - J

@dillthekraut there is also "protokol" which outputs a stream of OSC values to a user-defined-length text file (for example 50 lines of osc values). I had the idea to read the stream with some kind of lightweight script and generate GUI status graphics with select extracted values. Might be a "later" project as I am loving the isadora grapher actor and it seems quite lightweight. As I am using Resolume for my video engine and Isadora for my logic, having a small isadora stage on my monitor with the grapher and a few doo-dads seems to add very little overhead.

@woland

In the GUI I can change IPs ,  SSIDs + password, and port numbers, but not OSC Adresses. That's surely a unwanted lapsus on their site.

As they say, the system is meant to be used by assigning a different port to each sensor.

Cheers

@woland Thank you! With the proper changes, using a background scene for the ArtNet actors worked like a charm!

@dillthekraut said:

How is a JavaScript template meant to be uploaded to the plugin db? I guess as user actor? There is no specific category like the 'Open GL Shader', which has probably the same work path, or is there?

You could go with Category User Actor (or Patch if you want to make an example file) and select the tag "Javascript"

@dillthekraut said:

Maybe this is might be worth an extra category, as well for the new Pythoners?

The Javascript tag has it covered. There's a tag for Python as well, so that's also handled :)

@dillthekraut said:

I would also like to kindly remind on the feature request regarding the search function for the Plug-In DB.

 Oh, believe me, I'm waiting on that one too. I'm dying to have it.

@eva said:

Im trying to add the project

All I need is the .izz file. Maybe you're trying to upload a .zip file or something else? Failing that, you can always send in your file via a ticket using the link in my signature.

@eva said:

I used this and extended it

https://troikatronix.com/add-o...

Unfortunately what you started with doesn't help me in this situation, I need to see how you implemented it. I suspect that you may not be using a background Scene for lighting, but I can't confirm that without looking at what you've programmed.

@armando

Hey there,

I am going into a deep dive over in TouchDesigner land to try and get good results from dotSimulate's implementation of realtime Image Diffusion with his "Stream DiffusionTD" project. 

So far I've been able to get it to work on my M3 MacBook Pro @ ~4-7fps and on a Windows computer ~18-20 fps with an Nvidia graphics card.

I'm still very new to all of this but I think that I can confidently answer at least your first question "Question Does this means that I might end up with multiple virtual environments that might contain mumpy for instance ?":

1) - Yes, you might end up with multiple VENV(ironments) for different instances of something you are working on. I have ended up with between over 5 different attempted installations of StreamDiffusion on my computer as I've tried to get it to work. I just added a new installation recently because there was an update from DotSimulate and I didn't want to accidentally break my previous installation so I just made a new one and now have both in a working state.

In terms of all the common libraries. . . . I know that NumPy was one of the ones I had to struggle with getting the correct version installed of to make this work . . . 

Here is a video describing the install process for StreamDiffusionTD: 

@citizenjoe  Good idea, thanks! 

@reload2024
As usual, Isadora has many ways to solve this problem. You could try manipulating the image before it gets to the Projector by adding a Panner or the FFGL Pan, Spin, Zoom (adding a Scaler early in the chain might be useful). Or you could solve it using IzzyMap (doubleclick on the projector) - If this has an undesirable effect on the rest of your patch, you could use IzzyMap in a virtual stage and use Get Stage Image to route the results to your regular Projector.

Got it - thanks!  I was using shapes / gaussian blur / Alpha mask, but didn't hook it up correctly. Appreciate your time and expertise.  - John

@reload2024

Sounds like a mistake I made when programming the patch. I'll take a look when I have more time next week.

@fred 

I will have access to a blackbox where we will record the video, but I only have some hours with them one day. I imagine that asking them to wear something in a color could help. and then I will have to see what happens with the wires, that seems to be the main challenge I remember. I dont have the paid version of DaVinci, but it seems I might have to invest...

@reload2024

this might help then:

https://youtu.be/MMfn9vB4hEo?si=PkVW1z63wlhgvlQs

@reload2024

You can output a Frame/Box with shapes, to a Projector actor, double click the Eye icon, and activate the 3D options. Then you can manipulate the plane the Projector is outputting to in 3D space.

@citizenjoe said:

I always leave the monitor attached, because it's very difficult for to troubleshoot without one.

 Excellent point

@knowtheatre

Here's the finished product: patch-scrolling-picture-loop-2024-09-05-4.01.zip

It'll adjust itself automatically to the number of picture files you've imported. This is only tested with pictures that all have the same aspect ratio, so wacky things may happen if you use custom aspect ratio pictures mixed with 16:9 pictures and 4:3 pictures, etc.

Note: I used Enter Scene Value actors instead of initializing values just because it made it more transparent what was going on.

@dusx Thank you!

@reload2024 there are different ways of unwrapping the equirectangular video used for 360. I think the way you are working now uses a spherical projection. For your use case a cube map sounds more appropriate. 

I think you can use ffmpeg to process the video to a cube map https://jiras.se/ffmpeg/mono.html

this should fix the distortion you see when you project into the square room. 

Hi, i would like to use the audio level of a quicktime video that i am playing in the scene as a parameter to manipulate the video. I understood that what was used before for this purpose was the Freq bands property in the Movie Player actor. I do not see the option to display the Freq Bands as the output property in the movie player actor and i read in the previous forum that this became obsolete. Could someone please tell me what i could do? I have read https://community.troikatronix...

but do not know what exactly it means for me to do. If anyone could explain to me, i would be so grateful!
I am using Isadora 4.0.1, running OS 14.5. Thank you very much!