Create a support ticket using the link in my signature. We can try to reproduce the crash in the latest beta. If it crashes in 3.0.7 and not in the beta we can just give you access to the beta.

@sommerdi

No I have no experiences with multi sound. Its also a few years since I played around with it.

Best Michel

Hi,

+1 - I agree, this would be of real value. Not just now but into the bright future post covid19.

Kind regards

Russell

@salimelo said:

Hi everyone, hope you all are doing fine. Looking for a way to tell the Javascript Actor to send a trigger signal to its output if condition is true, and no signal at all, if condition is false. Any suggestions? THXaLot, kindly, JK

 Situaion solved, I falsy suggested outputting 0 would result in not sending a trigger signal. Instead, not outputting any value at all (I was using if and else) results in not sending a trigger signal either. (means: no else condition at all). THX

Just a quick add. I have tested with both using null and undefined in an attempt to have an output not trigger.
In both cases Isadora is converting these into false (zero) values. 

Greetings

So my company has asked me to make one of the videos of 30 people all singing together.  Those that work in my field have used either Logic Pro X or Adobe software to complete this goal.  For fun I decided to try it in Isadora.  I am using 2.6.1 at the moment.

What I have been successful in is capturing the video part by using "capture stage to movie" actor.  And I have been having fun with that.  But what I can't figure out is how to make Isadora capture the audio from these movies.   To be fair I have never used "Live Capture" before. But I did figure out how to capture me and the things I have said.  But what I have not been able to do is figure out how to get the capture to take the audio from the movie and not from my mic.

the questions are:

is there a way to make this happen? and I have searched for 3 days on the internet and either I don't know the right word to search with.

Is this pointless in Isadora and should I just go back to Adobe?

thanks

Jared

Hi, I have an User actor for mapping with touch osc. when the user actor is open I could modify value with touch osc but when I close the user actor I don't have the possibility to "save and update all" I have to modify something with the mousse for be able to save for all user actor. Did I miss something ?

thanks for help.

Célio

MacBook Pro 2017 13 with touch bar

Mac OS Mojave

Izadora 3.0.7

@jfg

Just so you all know: I've been hestitant to allow actors in Isadora that could allow a patch to do damage to your system, i.e., erase your hard drive. That's why I've avoided things like allowing AppleScript or applications to be launched. To me it feels like a security risk to allow such things. But I am happy to see that the Isadora community always seems to find a way. ;-)

Best Wishes,
Mark

@crystalaaron said:

 APA102-2020 and APA102-1515.who used it before?can you share me some experience to me?

 Hi,

I have a current project using APA102 RGB Led’s. The LED’s run from WI-FI microcontrollers using the OSC protocol. The decision to use OSC libraries came about because it is easy to implement and is well supported. There are significant limitations with OSC compared to the pattern making options of art-net. So I would not recommend OSC for many hundreds of LED’s. But for small numbers of LED’s that run off small batteries and controlled via a WIFi board, using OSC appeared the better option.

Best Wishes

Russell

@nickdesigner84 said:

virtual stages - I was wondering what they could be used for...

 You can use them like this to group a bunch of overlapping content and then easily manipulate its location and scaling as a whole. (I used a Virtual Stage for all the shapes that make up the penguin's head.)

Penguin.izz

Re: [Matrix Color Send in v3](/topic/6520/matrix-color-send-in-v3)

@deflost @DusX @SSlezas @Armando 

Hi, I thought i'd add to this post as i'm also having problems with the Matrix Color Send actor in the ArtNet Send tutorial

The "Single Color" section of the tutorial has the Matrix Color Send actor looking like this...

But after running the tutorial using Izzy 3.0.7 it looks like this...

You'll notice "base port" and "chan/port" have been replace with "port" and "flip mode" has disappeared.

I'm using an Advatek PixLite 16 controller and one 2.5m, 50 RGB LED/m DCDC60B (WS2812B) pixel tape, also from Advatek

I've managed to get the first 3 scenes ("Q0.5 Single ArtNet Universe", "Q1 ArtNet MVR User Actor" and "Q2 Test One Pixel") to work but when i go to "Q3 Single Color" scene only the first LED cycles between red, green blue and no others, which am assuming from the tutorial they should.

I realise i'll have to change some settings, since the scenes were originally configured for 3 individual 144 RGB LED pixel tapes, but am having some difficulty figuring it out, so any assistance/advice is much appreciated.

Like it says at the beginning of the tutorial... There's no two ways of saying it, ArtNet is complex

Rgds, Mr J

Thank you Michel, i want using a video projector in isadora and send it with NDI Tool on my Wysiwyg from cast lighting -  and see the video play on my 3D stage, inside the video screen of Wysiwyg in LIVE mode, in perform R44. Cool , to know for NDI plugin for streming inside ISADORA 3. Best regards. Florent

@dodioflo

Hi,

I have been developing techniques for 3D in Isadora for a while. Hopefully the following experiences I have had will assist with your process. Please have a look at this post https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/2187/3d-objects-in-isadora. If there is a specific issue can you hone it in as there are numerous hurdles at the vertex modelling and texture UV stages that can make the files unusable in Isadora. 

Although the above linked forum post is from half a decade ago all of the issues associated with the 3D actors in Isadora are still current!

One thing you will have to get familiar with is getting your 3D vertices and polygons per mesh to conform to the 3DS limit : 65536

I can recommend an open source application that does a good job of decimating models, to conform to the required polygon count, it is MeshLab: http://www.meshlab.net/

Blender does a better job of UV texture mapping than Cheetah. However, Blender 2.8 does not have 3DS export as yet (although I haven't looked for a couple of weeks). Because of this, there is a compromise of either going back to a previous version of Blender with legacy 3ds export, or using another program to transpose from, say, OBJ to 3DS. There has also been an issue with Blender and Isadora in terms of the encoding file paths of associated texture image files. Cheetah works well with Isadora in terms of assigning image files to UV texture maps that can then be automatically found when a 3DS file is imported into an Isadora patch. 

So a workflow is possibly going to become efficient using two or three 3D programs to pass the mesh file through.

My personal workflow is.

Modelling and rigging in Blender or Cheetah 3D. Texture mapping in Blender. Exporting as OBJ. Decimating the final mesh in MeshLab to conform to a minimum number of polygons while maintaining the overall integrity of the model - so this is an optimisation step. Reassigning the texture image in Cheetah and saving as a 3DS file with linked texture map for use in Isadora.

I have made some 3D demonstration patches available through this recent forum post. https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/6540/3d-ropes-user-file/2

If you want to look under the hood at the patch, send me a private message (there is a chat feature in the top right of this forum).

I have also prepared a tutorial file about one technique for using 3D meshes in the 3D Model Particles (starts page 11) : https://community.troikatronix.com/assets/uploads/files/1536703782928-particlestutorial_small.pdf

I haven't attempted to use Maya, Cinema4D or VectorWorks to make 3DS files directly, but I would suggest exporting to OBJ and then converting to 3DS using MeshLab. This is going to be an option to try. You will then be left with having to deal with any assigned texture images and perhaps that's where Cheetah 3D comes in.

Make a feature request for Isadora to support OBJ files and if that happens, we will all be a couple of steps better off.

Kind Regards

Russell

@skulpture said:

Have you ever got the visualiser to show the field? This is the big I am not grasping

 Yes, It is very helpful to see the visualisation when you are developing the patch. In my second patch with the circular moving gravity field. Turn off the projector linked to the shape actor, and then turn on the 'gf visualise' and increase' the visualiser points to 5 by adjusting the 'gf vis size' from 1 to 5. It does become more complicated when you are adding 'gf duplicate' as this creates parallel gravity fields in a 3D box shape. The patch I have done just has the gravity field on 1 plane, i.e. 1 'gf duplicate'. The reason the hearts are changing colour in the second patch is because the 'gf use color' is turned on.

You can see the visualiser in the centre of this screen grab.

Kind Regards

Russell

@Fred 

Here is the demonstration patch I am working on - not even close to completed. I have reduced the resolution of the texture maps to fit into under 3mb download .zip.

You will see the javascript actor from @mark that rotates the sphere (it references an external three.js file that needs to be accessible in the project folder). I haven't yet completed calibrating the rotation to be absolutely accurate with the texture map, but it is in the general location of cities that are referenced through the World Bank API.

It uses API data sources from VirusTracker and the WorldBank. I am also looking at accessing earth texture maps from NASA API to associate with times of day. but at the moment just have two texture maps that swap out including an example of average temperature and night. The data updates every day based on the availability of current Covid19 statistics through VirusTracker. It is set to minus 3 days because of the uncertainty of availability of daily data over weekends etc. The WorldBank API data provides, country broad individual wealth position, world coordinates and capital city.

I would say the patch system needs a way to capture the data with a single pass of the API URL's rather than continuously using the TCP GET method over and over. I haven't yet got the single pass TCP GET method into a Data Array configured, but I think that would be best practice.

DataSphere 2.zip

Kind Regards

Russell

Re: [[SOLVED] On the fly LOOP](/topic/5901/solved-on-the-fly-loop)

Hi i was looking about like a "Pedal loop" for movie in Isadora and I find this topic. So for a friend of mine I have to make a pedal loop able to choose loop in and loop out on the fly and able to continuous movie when he want and make another loop at another time and so on. So I make this user actor, with keyboard watcher and osc with a touchosc layer for iPad and a touchosc layer for iPhone.

Sorry if someone did yet a similar thing and I didn't find it.

If some people are interested...

loop movie.izz

Layer touchosc.zip

PS :  

I'm working on the same thing but for live video streaming ...

@juriaan cool! thank you.

@mr_j said:

played around with movie player freq bands

 Hi,

Skulpture's example is really inspiring. And it looks like '3D Lines' actor to me... The key to the patch example is using 'Value Delay Line' to move the waveform coordinates along a chain of '3D Line' actors. 

@armando said:

I imagine that the RGB values of each pixel in each frame are subtracted from the values of the following frame.

 It's very simple.

New Frame = ABSOLUTE_VALUE(New Frame RGB - Old Frame RGB)

There is no blurring of any kind. Anything you're seeing in this regard is probably because the webcam (if you're using one) is slowing down it's frame rate to accomodate the available light. If you were seeing this on a higher quality camera (i.e., a good HD camera and coming in via Blackmagic input) I would be very surprised.

But if you want a little proof, take a look at this patch which uses a Shapes actor into Difference.

Best Wishes,
Mark

shapes to difference.izz

@mark_m

Amazing! Pete is indeed one of our directors. I'll pass your greetings on. Small world.