Set up scene for changing parameters globally for touring

[klauskk]

Hello everybody.

I have a show with 10 different scenes and I'm going on tour with a play.

I'm using some masks and some positions on content which I need to change on every location.

What is the best solutions to do this?

Is it to build up a setup scene and use the broadcaster/listener actors? In that case I need to activate all scenes to make the changes?.

Or is it a better way to do this?

It would be great to setup all the positions and the different masks I been using on every location in a setup scene and the changes where globally for the total project.

Klaus K.

[dbini]

i did something similar on tour earlier this year. i set up my masks in a User Actor, so the content of every scene went into a 'Croprojector' which was basically a bunch of masks and a projector.

i also had a setup scene with a Background Actor feeding into the Croprojector. in each location i used the setup scene to tweak the masks, then updated the User Actor and the masks worked for every scene.

[Bill Cottman]

Take a close look at the Data Array actor. Depending on how similar your scenes are, you could create one scene and a different text file for each set of location specific parameters

[CraigAlfredson]

I do this all the time and a user actor is definitely the way to go.

[keftaparty]

Same for me, allways did this with a user actor and a calibration scene.

[klauskk]

Thanks guys.

K