@woland I need to make some updates to it, and then I will make it available! Poke me if I don't :)

@woland if we did not need to vary the sizes I could imagine a 26 layer image (one for each letter in the english alphabet) where words are formed by setting a spot in the checkerboard to display its letter or alpha, allowing you to only need 26 Text draws. you could get the rotation to work with this as well, but the size variations break the system down. Still, I wonder if there is a way to be character centric versus word centric.

@woland Super useful, thanks so much

@woland

ah, ok. a cousin with the same name..:-)

thanks

@mark Yes, I directed her to those instructions to install the Kinect SDK, and we did try the v2.0 and the v1.8.

The sensor itself would not light up with v2.0 but did with v1.8, so I think we are good on that front, but I'll have her check on these other solutions and will report back!

@DusX I believe all of that was correct, but I'm now going off of memory as she shared her screen with me, so I'll have her look again. Thanks for the screenshots for reference.

@fred said:

 installed the direct show filter for NotchLC on windows and I can play notchLC files in windows media player when they are AVI files.  

Well, the Windows tool graphedt.exe is a developer tool that allows you to visualize a movie playback graph.

32 bit Version

When I run the 32-bit version, and select a NotchLC encoded AVI with the command File > Render Media File..., I see this and I can press the play button and the movie plays.

64 bit Version

When I try the same in the 64 bit version of graphedt.exe, I see this error:

The 64 bit version of graphedt.exe shows this as the graph diagram.

Note that there is a stream for rendering audio, but none for video. This would seem to prove that NotchLC drivers are not 64 bit compatible. And that means Isadora, which is a 64 bit app, can't play it either.

If you examine Windows Media Player, I am quite sure it is a 32 bit app and that's why it can play the files.

Sorry. I don't know what else to say.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@bonemap said:

It would be helpful when porting projects with 3DS texture files that there be an option to locate or otherwise produce the disassociated file and reset the texture, rather than be told that 'the default color specified by the material will now be used instead of a texture map."

FYI:  It's a bit of a big ask because then we have to be able to update that file name in the 3DS file and write it out. Isadora knows how to read those files, but I have no equivalent code to write them.

For the moment you can expect that you'll need to change those files in a program designed to open, edit and modify 3D files.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@liminal_andy

If you're comfortable sharing this, it'd be great to have a version of this on the TroikaTronix Add-Ons page (link in my signature) if it's not there already :)

Best wishes,

Woland

We'd love it if you could put this workaround on the TroikaTronix Add-Ons page (link in my signature) :)

Best wishes,

Woland

@rl

For everyone's benefit: the crash the user is describing can be caused by a bad font being installed in the system.

When you install fonts on macOS, don't just put them in the font folder. Instead, drag them into FontBook because then the font will be analyzed for problems.

For example, one font that was causing a user trouble generated this dialog when dragged into FontBook.

If a font shows errors like this, it may cause Isadora to crash.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@liminal_andy

I would consider it,  but would prefer it to be automated.   It's in a worship environment, and hoping to allow it to be run by semi-trained volunteers.  

However, I hadn't thought of using companion  - that might be a workable solution.  Thanks for the suggestion!

Do any of the tools similar to OBS allow for communication with other programs?  Seems like they are missing a huge bump in usability if not.

Thanks,

El

@bonemap I know cool ,right! My next one is to test out the main Lidar camera on the iPad Pro . Hopefully I should get a much deeper range .I'll let you know after I've scrounged one from some where.

@lighting273

Have you checked out the Body Tracking Guru Session? It comes with a set of files that may prove useful.

The OpenNI Tracker Tutorial file (for the OpenNI plugins) may also be helpful as a starting point.

This forum thread has some helpful work from @bonemap you could try to incorperate. 

From the TroikaTronix Add-Ons page, there's also this 3d lines puppet for the OpenNI actors, which is also from the fabulous @bonemap.

You could probably also adapt the work that @mark posted in this forum thread.

Searching the forum for "3D particles" may also turn up other treasures for you :)

Best wishes,

Woland

@bennnid

I logged this feature request and also added on that any actor that can open a dialog might benefit from the addition of a trigger input so that the dialog can be opened using the Control Panel (like you can with the 'izzymap' input on a mapped Projector actor).

Anyhow: you were right. I just put the gui monitor onto the M2000 and one projector on the 770 instead. Now Spout works.

Thanks to a prompt from the fabulous @liminal_andy, I've started making a tutorial file for the Stage Mouse Watcher (it incorporates some brilliant programming of his as well). Here's a sneak peek:

https://gfycat.com/mediocreillgalago

Best wishes,

Woland

@bennnid said:

3.0.7

 I just checked my 3.0.7 mac install and it is top of the list when I type 'CUR' as you did.
Maybe try a re-install.

@woland Yes I think it should be possible to simply record all the content ie the audio and the video.

hi, ( I don't know a lot in lightning softs, but after doing this I realized everybody was using Q-lab for the lightning part... too bad! but at least Isadora rules everything nicely ! " 1 ring to rule them all "

So, I made this one for a friend- light operator, who needs to cue the lights (left), sound (right), and remote control a 2nd computer offstage with Atem osc,and movies to be played ( on the right too) 

Each scene uses several matrix send value for light and all "crossfad-able" values ( volumes, pans ), and broadcaster for all triggers ( sound, movie num, etc).

The bomb button allows to "kill" a fader to 0 after a set time, even if you change scene ( there is a turning mechanism on stage that needs to be turned off after a precise amount of time, to be in the "good" position, but other cues are continuing in between. 

There are also 3 oscillator I can assign to any light fader, it's scaled for each fader with the min value ( little fader on the side) and max value ( actual main fader position that can be updated even though it's following the oscillator with "show value of linked properties"), and though midi in (0-127) and control panel in (0-100) it stays coherent thanks to the "scaling" function of actors ' input in isa, ( thanks so much ) and it's really cool to use ! 

@bennnid

Thanks ! There will be bore, this is just the beginning....