@helendeneb

since you want to be able to have the previous state remain.. (do you want all to remain as you move thru them?)
I would consider doing the whole cactus portion of the show in 1 isadora scene. That makes displaying them all together very easy.
I would build each Cactus bloom series as a User Actor, with trigger controls and Media IDs as inputs.
Once you have 1 working.. you can add copies of the user actor, change the Media IDs, and you have now multiple sequences that can be triggered how ever you like.
This isn't the most beginner thing to do.. but User Actors are one of the most power pieces of Isadora so learning them early is a great idea.
I don't know exactly how you want things to work, or what media you are using.. but I think its an achievable goal.

If you can supply details on how you plan to structure the media.. I would be happy to make a demo file with a User actor explaining the method I described.
@dbini 's idea of laying the blooms over the background cactus sounds very good. So in that case, the Cactus, would be placed out side any user actor, and the blooms would overlay with alpha channels.

@skulpture

right.. tap tempo will help smooth out any change in BPM.
You could also add a 'Smoother' actor to make abrupt changes have a transition.

@HelenDeneb 

look at this post to see how it works: https://support.troikatronix.c...

i don't have isadora now with me to give it a try but maybe try to put the activate scene actor inside the scene you want to activate. So when you press the letter for the scene you want live, it will stay activated.

@bonemap

I think you and I are playing around with similar (but different) types of things these days.
I'm feeding xyz values (as Json) all over currently, and was about to look for a way to extract them from geometry, so pointing me at Meshlab is great, thanks.

and i'm looking forward to isadora 3!

@bonemap Thanks! That's what I was forgetting...Limit-Scale Value. Oops! Thanks for quick response!

If this is about getting the Kinect working with Processing, here are all the files that you should need: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1ga...

@jrhooker said:

Thanks for taking the time to walk me through that thing that probably everyone knows.

 Actually I was only quasi-aware of this for a really long time. Mark was kind enough to sit down down with me recently and walk me through it with a visual example and that's when it really clicked for me. I'm a very visual learner, and besides that, we're all still learning all the time so there's no shame in not knowing something.

Best wishes,

Woland

@maga

The best way is to leave the limit min and max to 0 and 100 and use the limit scale value and the float to integer actor, this will scale the values. 0 would stay a 0 and 100 will be 7.
I guess changing the limit min and max for the random actor does still work with 0 to 100 but outputs only your range, so everything over 7 will be a 7.

Best Michel

@camilozk 

Please submit a support ticket using the link in my signature in relation to the crashes. We need to know your computer specs in order to help you troubleshoot.

I meant to get back to this sooner to post the results of my tests.

After lots of frustration with Epoccam, I went the NDI route. 

I used this driver: https://resolume.com/forum/dow..., found on the Resolume forums.

After testing 3 different iPhone apps (I wish that more of them had demo versions!), I found that the NewTek NDI app to be the only one to work for me. 

I had a private wireless network that I set up (AC4000 with a range extender for good measure), and I found the whole set up to be 100% reliable, good image quality (in fact WAY better than my logitech 920 or 930, which were the wired back ups for the system) and lag that I could easily deal with.

All in all, super easy to use and rock solid performance. I know that there are plans for Isadora 3 to natively support NDI, which will be even better, I expect.

Highly recommended!

Thanks for the help,

Hugh

I've used Jamie's Apple Script idea to automatically import jpegs as they are added to a folder. if you use a Get Media Count actor linked to a Counter, you can automate the process. I built an installation that enables users to add a screengrab of themselves to an ever-growing animation.

@akamitses said:

Lastly the audio gliches sometimes. Do I need to change processing speed, or something else to make sure my audio/video doesn't gliche in performance?

 Please use the link in my signature to submit a support ticket so that we can help you get to the bottom of the audio issue.

@woland

Hi woland,

I got the dropbox files. Thank you so much!

@ObscenityState You could consider working with the new "sound frequency band" actor instead, and just dial up "num bands" to your desired precision.

Another option: you don't need to worry about inter-scene layering if you keep a background Scene for your Projector actors (one for each stage and then extras as needed for specialized mapping) and then route all your video back into that Global Mapping Scene: https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/5495/global-projection-mapping-simple-show-template

So this solution just came to me and it works well. Pretty simple and smooth. 

And be sure to take a close look at the actor help. it does have a bit of a learning curve.

A few tips if you want to to read the data from a pre-existing data file around formatting and cleaning your dataset:

* save your file as a tab deliminated file with the ending .txt with no other formatting

* must not have a header row

* all data in a given column needs to be of the same data type (int, float, string). Different columns can have different data types

* null values can cause problems. I typically remove them.

* and if you're familiar with python the "pandas" library (available as an anaconda and jupyter distro) is very helpful for cleaning large data sets for integration w/ izzy.

* remember to use UTF-8 encoding

* and finally - be sure to click read on the data array once your data file is in place. change the recall value to the line you want to access.....

Good luck!

@mapactor said:

o share a successful version of such a patch

 Hi,

Here is a demonstration file that may assist. NiMate RightHand to Issy Live Drawing.izz.zip. It picks up the OSC skeleton data for the Right_Hand in Isadora and routes the tracking data through to the Live Drawing actor.

It requires the NiMate OSC stream to be pointed to Isadora port number 1234, with NiMate on the same computer as Isadora an IP setting of 127.0.0.1 should get the stream communication going.

Best Wishes

Bonemap

Subj. I am looking for visual art –– exhibits/dance/theatre etc –– things to see in Amsterdam and around.

Thanks.