@woland Thanks I'll try to redo the user actor with global values. To try.

Best

@particlep

The JS actor does not have any drawing abilities. It can create streams of numbers for animation, that you would feed to a Shapes actor or Lines actor. But can't create polygons directly.

@dritter

Woland, my MacBook running Big Sur died three days ago. It will not boot and displays nothing on the screen. Apple says it need s a new battery, screen and maybe new logic board. Maybe it was running slow because it was already having problems when I tested Isadora 3.2.6.

Don

@bennnid

I can’t put 200pt for character size cos after 3,5pt I loose some text … 

 I am not sure I understand your problem. Your text is very long and if you want to show it bigger you have to split your text in several (depending of the size of the font) part and show every part one behind the other or to use the scroll function in the text draw actor. You can also use the "bounds width" input to set some space left on right of your text if you don't want the text touch the border of the screen.

or with several screens:

@woland Brilliant and generous as always

@jfg Supercreative as always !

@woland @mark_m @jandraka thank you for the suggestions

@fubbi great !! No more driver nightmare for DMX !!! Thank you a thousand times. Also because with Sonoma arriving I was worried that would cause DMX nightmare. 

@cgryan-360

I'll quickly plug my own tutorial here: Build It! Video Step Sequencer - YouTube
I think my Build It series will give you the best overview of 'building' modular elements that you can reuse (user actors). They are longer walk throughs but do offer some great insights into how Isadora works.

@miguel276 said:

So the only way to do it is on Mac?

 Yes, those actors (and any starting with 'AU') are components made available via the macOS (and some interface wrappers in Isadora). At this time there aren't any similar offerings on Windows.

You might find this post/patch useful.
DaVinci Style Color Grading in Isadora | TroikaTronix Forum

@dusx

User actor good call 

Ta thanks

Tr742

Art

@ariana said:

to adjust the size before it is sent to the alpha mask?

 Below I have used a Shapes actor in place of the Picture Player you will be using for a PNG file, but the rest should be similar to what you are doing. I have added a number of Get Video Size actors to show how the resolutions are being set, and combined (using default Isadora settings).
The Scaler actor is the actor used here to resize the image.

@dusx O.M.G! 

thank you

Here is the current configuration if anyone needs it

Netgear 5 port unmanaged hub

MA2: 192.168.1.111

Setup/Network/MA Network protocol
Unicast to the MAC IP, Amount set to 16, everything else default.
Art-Net output button set to active

MAC: 192.168.1.64

@woland You are welcome. I'm filing a support ticket on that

@woland said:

 Here's a slight improvement to your system (check the second Scene of this file: actors-keyboard-watcher-up-down-2023-09-11-3.2.6.izz)

 Whoops I attached the wrong file before. Here's the right one: actors-keyboard-watcher-up-down-v2-2023-09-11-3.2.6.izz

Hi Gina,

This sounds like an interesting interactive installation! For triggering Isadora cues from the Arduino magnetic sensor, here are a few thoughts:

Use the Arduino Firmata actor to receive the sensor data into Isadora. You'll need to initialize it and set the input pin accordingly.Then route that input to a Switch actor to control the scene changes. For example, set it to switch to Scene 2 when the input goes HIGH (door closed).You can use a Timer actor in each scene to transition back to Scene 1 after a set duration.For automatic start up, you may be able to use something like a Powershell script that launches Isadora on boot up. Just need to make sure it opens in fullscreen.For shutdown without mouse/keyboard, look into remote login software so you can SSH into the Mac and shut down calendar 2024 from another computer.

Definitely try testing the Arduino > Isadora communication first. Once you have that working reliably, the other automation should be very achievable. Let me know if you have any other questions! Excited to see how this project develops.

@dusx Thanks ! I never noticed the gree dots (I am ashamed....)

@em_tx

Have you tried the motion blur actor ?

Hi,

for those who might need a sound player with positional marker points, I enclose a working test patch.

for my latest project I pimped up the sound player actor with Javascript in order to allow jumps to markers and allow a positional slider (like other players as vlc). My new project is completely driven by audio positions of one piece of music. The marker positions drive the whole setting of video and light changes. 

For setup and rehearsal I need to jump to specific positions in the music. So I designed the marker actor to jump to the exact position, and also to jump to the position 2 seconds before the marked position.

For testing purpose I extracted the relevant parts of the patch and added simple projections as proof of concept. Just use an audio file of your flavor and have fun with test sound player advance .