There are a lot of options for this. Do you want to play audio files or trigger text on the phones?

I have done some shows with audience phones and there are a few things I have found. I tried to do this from a local server (a computer on the theater) it was easier setup wise, but required the audience to be on the wifi I took with me. This has issues that can be annoying - if the wifi internet is much slower than the phones 4/5g most iPhones with switch internet to the SIM card and this can mess with access, it is also tough to to get so many phones on a portable network. 

Hosting a site remotely requires a bit more work but then you can use https (so browsers won’t complain) and it also means the audience use their own internet. If there is a large audience and you are triggering audio files then you need a fast server, if a lot of people load the site at once then all the audio needs to be downloaded from your server to all the phones. If it is text it is a lot easier.

With a very basic site design you can communicate from some control system via http post or web sockets. Either choice will let you tell the client browsers to play a specific audio file or to display a different piece of text. With an http post request you can do this directly from isadora. If this is text you can even send the text to be triggered from Isadora so it’s a system you can always alter easily. 

chagpt can write pretty much all the code for the site very easily. Make web server with nodejs that has the functionality (test locally with isadora), use GitHub for the code so you can update it easily on your server) Rent a VPS (Vultr of Hetzner are good but there is a lot of choices). Transfer your nodejs code and Client JavaScript to the server and make it run with PM2. Get a domain, setup the dns so your domain pints to the server. Setup SSL (generate a certificate and copy it to your vps) and expose the site with NGinx. Test and repair a bit! Then give out the QR code as needed and use the http post request from isadora to trigger whatever you want on time during the show. The latency should be quite low. 

There are tons of instructions online for this whole setup. If you are not keen on doing it yourself it shouldn’t be a big job. You can approach your local coder (or dm me?) and it should not cost much to do. 

Fred

@demetri79 The way that a texture is mapped to a model is not decided by Isadora, it is set when the UV mapping for the model is made. This lets you specifically set which part of an image goes to which part of a models surfaces.

To do this with a cube will not be so difficult - take a look at this explanation: https://all3dp.com/2/blender-u...

There are a lot of Blender tutorials online covering this.

You can see here though that each side of the model gets its texture from a different part of the image that is being used to texture it. You can render a video that has all the smaller videos in place so they match the texture map and then play that in Isadora and feed it into the texture input of the 3d model player.

You can also dynamically create this - you can have 6 different image sources and then combine them so they have the same layout as what the model expects for its texture and UV map. You can use a virtual stage to do this. With each 6 image sources, send them to the same virtual stage and on each use the mapper to get the source content and place it on the precisely correct position and size on the virtual stage. The size of the virtual stage should be set to whatever texture aspect ratio was used in the model, ie if it was made with a 512 * 512 texture then make a square texture (you can use the texture scaling to correct things if you need).

Then when all the 6 pieces are being sent to the right locations on the virtual stage, you can get the image from the virtual stage and send that to the texture input of the model player. This will let you send any video or image to any side of the cube and be able to control the content for any side independently in real time.

Thank you!

Very helpful. 

I didn’t realize that I could copy and paste slices between projector actors — that will definitely simplify my workflow!

@reload2024

Hi there!

It really depends on your media; the movie player is tuned and heavily tested every single time that we do a release on multiple platforms, and multiple devices. But I don't believe our testsuite contains a movie file with that resolution.

We are always happy to help debug / optimize your patch if you find any weird behavior. Feel free to sent us a ticket and we will look at your footage / help you debug the problem.

https://support.troikatronix.com/support/tickets/new

@dusx

That's fabulous news.

Thanks guys.

J

@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.