@emredur

Hi there Emre!

Welcome to the Isadora community forum, glad to have you here.

Isadora doesn't offer any native functions that are specifically intended to streamline the process of projecting onto a sphere. We do however have the tool called "IzzyMap" and the Stage Setup (Edge blend tool) that will allow you to get quite far with what you are trying to accomplish.

If you don't have access to programs like Vectorworks or CAD to pre-visualize the throws of the projectors (based on the make, model, and lenses) onto the sphere you will however have a lot of trial and error to do to figure out where the projectors need to be hung / etc.

It seems that you are just starting with Isadora. So I would suggest the following;

Isadora is paid software, but we offer a demo mode that allows you use to use all the features of the program. The only limitation that we have is that you can't save without a license, you can however rent a license for as little as $10/week.Watch the Guru session that Mark (Creator of Isadora / Media artist) did on the subject of Projection mapping Ask the community! If you ever become stuck or need a hand post a topic on our forum and members of the community will give you a hand.You can also send us a Technical support ticket ;)

Have fun!

- Juriaan

@woland

Thank you so much! It works! :)

@kerrodb said:

Would there be problems regarding demo or full version of isadora?

Nope. Demo Mode is the same as full version, just with saving disabled.

@kerrodb said:

It's hard to explain what is happening, when it isn't from the second I open Isadora. 

It's hard to troubleshoot without a description. Can you give us a screenshot of the actor inside your patch?

@mr_j
Hi there Mr_j!

Was just about to ask the same. Sorry that I couldn't chime in before!
Let us know if you have any follow up questions.

- Juriaan

@fred-eric-eckert

The Live Drawing actor doesn't draw curves, as I suspect you know. It will only draw straight lines from point to point.
The trigger should at max be triggered with every screen refresh (at 30hz if the fps is 30, or 60hz if the fps is 60) So a higher framerate will give you more points since the time between frames is decreased. 

@fred-eric-eckert

If you want a reliable haptic push button, you could combine a x-keys keyboard with the companion app. You would loose the nice textured symbol but I have missed a couple of cues due to the streamdeck button construction.

@oscarcassamajor

Mark Coniglio, creator of Isadora here. Our team tried to recreate your problem and we could not do so. I use Mojave as my main computer, and I have no problems like this. We have no other reports from Mojave users of this problem.

Do you have only the Intel UHD Graphics 630 Card? Or do you have a high performance card as well, e.g., Radeox 555X or 560X or similar? The picture only shows the Integrated graphics card. The 2018 15" MacBook Pro should have a discrete graphics card as well. If no Radeon is shown, perhaps the hardware is damaged?

Is this checkbox turned on or turned off in the Energy Saver System Preferences?

If it is on, turn it off and reboot. Does this change anything?

That is all we can think of to try to help you.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@gaba
Hi there Gaba!

As you can also read on our plugin page for the NDI watcher

"Isadora 3.1 and later will use NDI v5, while Isadora 3.0.7  uses NDI v4 and Isadora 3.0.6 and before use NDI v3. Because of this, multiple versions of the plugin are given in this distribution.

Take care to install the correct version of the plugin for your version of Isadora, otherwise the plugin will not function or may not appear in Isadora at all.

The name of the plugin shown in Isadora makes it clear which version of the plugin you are using. It will be called NDI 5 Watcher for NDI 5 version, and NDI 4 Watcher for the NDI 4 version.

You cannot have multiple versions of the NDI Watcher plugin installed at the same time!"

The latest version of Isadora needs the NDI 5 Watcher. Other versions of the NDI Watcher will not work since we include the latest and greatest version of NDI in our releases :) You can also not have multiple versions installed.

Let us know or your issue was resolved and or you have any follow up questions.

@gapworks said:

reflection2.izz

 waterdropx2.izz

It seems that the Color choices for the Shapes actor changed between Isadora 2 and Isadora 3. I suspect this was due to increased support for alpha channels, but I can't be 100% sure at this time. In any case, changing the shape to have a White Line and Black background (and increasing the Displace amount) got the effect working again.

Then I made a new scene, and converted the User Actor to use the GPU as @dbini suggested !

Knowing that rendering a shape every scene has some overhead,  I decided to make one more version where the circle is only rendered once per frame (rather than 8 circles per frame) an use Video Delay actors to make multiple ripples.

In the end it seems that the overhead of the Video Delay actor is greater than that of the render time for Shapes. 

attached is the file I worked on

@dusx

Got it! Thanks a lot Dusx

@laverdi

I think I would use a chopper actor to achieve this. I would use it because it makes it easy to crop to the correct size, and position the original image within this crop.

I am sure you could use IzzyMap in some way, but then you have a harder time mapping if needed.

In the image below, I have cropped off the bottom 120px for output... You can just as easily take it off the top or anywhere between (the original has a thin Black border all around the white).

@juriaan thank you very much :) 

Thanks @dusx @Maximortal

@joshuawg

If they're both running on the same computer you could use an AppleScript cue in QLab to bring Isadora frontmost then tell system events to keystroke P using Cmd+Shift

Best wishes,

Woland

@decametre

This file might also be useful to you. There's a method that'll let you detect a click on an object of any shape (the example I used is a png of a banana).

magic-shape-02.zip

Best wishes,

Woland

@thatmattrogers

Isadora currently doesn't offer any UDP capabilities other than OSC (open sound control is sent via UDP).

We do however have beta options which would/should allow you to interface with your camera.
I will private message you to see if you might be suitable for our Beta program.

@mjotas

You will need to use a background scene to allow a video to play across a scene transition. 

see: https://support.troikatronix.c...

It works in the same way as the video tutorial outlines for sound :)

@dusx -- thank you so much. ya'll are so generous. i literally have never thought of using the movie player in any way other than playing a movie. duh. that's very helpful. And your timer patch cracked open another scene for me, so I really appreciate that.

@Woland -- this is great. yeah, we control shows with qlab because it cues both izzy and eos and that's been the easiest for our workflow. but I'm excited to look at these actors. thanks for sharing them!

thanks for fielding my questions! (hoping to have no panicked posts this time...)

@avieira

Hi,

Thank you for the great suggestion!

I have uploaded to the Add ons page, it is now awaiting approval before it will appear there.

Best Wishes

Russell

@dusx

Thank you very much, that was really helpful!