@jrhooker said:

I have a show that's about to go on tour. 

You probably already know this, but I'll state this for the benefit of anyone else who may read this reply in future: My #1 advice is to bench test all of your hardware for your setup as soon as possible; do not wait until you are at your first tour venue to check if your setup works the way you think it will. If you can, rent or borrow the hardware you're thinking of buying for a couple of days, put everything together, and ensure it does what you need it to do before you go on tour. If you end up buying the hardware without being able to try it first, bench test your hardware and setup by putting it all together and making sure that it does what you need it to do before you go on tour. Tell whoever's in charge of the finances for the show that this is essential in order to make sure that load-in and tech goes smoothly in the new format. They need to make room in the budget and time in the schedule for you to sit down with all of this hardware and set it up in an environment where you can test it before you arrive at the first tour stop and, ideally, as soon as possible, so that if you discover a problem, you have as much time as possible to order new hardware and do more testing. If this means renting you six projectors, buying you the hardware you think you need, and renting a rehearsal space so that you can set everything up, then that is what needs to happen. Especially due to the chip shortage caused by the pandemic, you do not want to find yourself in the position of loading in three days before the performance, only to find out that you need hardware that can't arrive faster than two weeks because of stock shortage/shipping/etc. 

@jrhooker said:

I'm trying to run this ALL of my MBP (Intel)...so I'm going from 3 projectors to 6 projectors. 

While it does depend on the wrapper, codec, and resolution of the video files, the resolution of the displays you're using, and the number of video files that you'll be playing simultaneously, my first reaction is that this is a LOT to ask of an intel MBP.

@jrhooker said:

Do I need to buy a Matrox quad2go ($$$!) or is it possible to send the quad signal out of two HDMI splitters 

If you need individual control of the content, blending, and mapping for each of the six projectors, you will need something like a Matrox Quad so that your computer and Isadora will register each projector as its own display.

If you are putting the same content on some of them and don't need to adjust the blend and mapping for each display, you can get away with using splitters (e.g. if projectors 1&2 don't use a splitter so they can be addressed individually [and can therefore be blended together & have separate mappings], projectors 3&4 come out of splitter 1 and don't need blending nor mapping and only need to show the same content as each other the whole time, and projectors 5&6 come out of splitter 2 and don't need blending nor mapping and only need to show the same content as each other the whole time. A splitter cannot replace something like a Matrox because a splitter is seen by the computer as a single display; a splitter doesn't allow the computer to see and individually address the displays that are "downstream" from the splitter as separate displays, so two projectors coming out of one splitter will always be treated as the same display, (i.e. show the same content and have the same blending/mapping).

Best wishes, 

Woland

Nicht Slecht!

@jamie-griffiths said:

SND and TRK options remain greyed out

 These inputs are remnants from Quicktime, and remain only to allow older files to update without losing control links. At this time playing multi-channel audio in Windows requires setting the sound device to recognize the audio channel format. 

This article outlines the movie file setup (same for Mac and PC as far as the multiple audio channels) https://support.troikatronix.c...
Here I show the Windows settings for Quadraphonic, and 5.1 audio https://community.troikatronix...

Please open a support ticket, and I can look at one of your Movie files and recommend your next steps.

@Vidasonik
Which type o camera are you trying to us with the OpenNI tracker?

@emcee65

I hope I correctly understand what you want. Here a patch Which I hope will help you:

picture-overlay.izz.zip

best, Jean-François 

@tlaloc

Hello 

Have a look at this link :) 

Cursorcerer

http://digitalthinkerhelp.com/...

Best regards

@eva

Art-Net runs through your router/network, it does not use serial. The easiest way to use it is to connect your computer to a Router, and then connect your Art-Net device to the Router. It should then become visible to the Art-Net Send Actor in Isadora.

The attached Isadora file is set up to set the DMX values for two 5-channel Par cans, and send the data out to Art-Net. The above image could be extended with another RGBW ParCan after the one shown to more closely match the example file. The example file does not deal with the ws2811 node shown, but this does illustrate how multiple Art-Net nodes can be connected to your network and used separately in Isadora.
I include a small JS script in the Par Can fixture (user actor) which makes setting the device DMX start address easier. I recommend using this method of creating easily reusable 'fixtures'.

DMX addresses are in sequence:

In the above example image, the underlined (orange) numbers are the start addresses for the fixture.

The basic setup is a Fixture sends to a Matrix Port (using a defined range of Matrix Channels, setup using the DMX start address input). The Matrix Value Receive picks up these values and formats them for Art-Net (converts them to HEX and puts them in series), this string is sent to the ArtNet Send actor which is connected to the Art-Net Node on your network.

fair enough, thanks for replying 

@clafarge

When we first added Javascript to Isadora, I ran a number of tests to determine the efficiency of the JS actor.
One of these tests was to recode the Smother actor in Javascript so that I had an identical process in JS. I then created Isadora patches with a thousand of the C++ version of smoother running, and the same for the JS version. What I saw was a very small increase in resources used for the JS processing. I continued to increase the number of actors and still saw only a slightly larger difference. Another test showed similar results for text formatting.

My takeaway was that the JS actor ran comparably fast, and wouldn't make any notable difference when used in most cases. 
However, do remember you can create large loops in JS, which will take more cpu time, as well as operations like array sorting etc.. 
JS runs within the frameloop, and needs to return in a timely manner, it is Blocking, so if you run a long loop everything else in the patch has to wait for it to return.

TRY THIS
- Add a Shapes actor, connected to a projector and a Wave generator, so you see it moving in your stage preview
Try adding this code to a JS actor and change the input value:

function main() { for (let i = 0; i < 5000000; i++) { print ("..." + i) } return arguments[0]; }

You will see output freezes while the JS actor counts to 1/2 million in the Monitor window.

Is it faster/slower to use JS to group a few functions together in a patch... I would say it is likely very close to the same cpu time (unless it's very complex)... does it save you the user time? probably if you are comfortable writing JS.

Ok grazie

Mi interessa tanto, perché inizio a studiare due esami di programmazione: «metodo matematico della computer grafica» e «programmazione di oggetti grafici», all'università di Roma Tor Vergata, in Scienze e Tecnologie dei Media.

Proverei i miei esercizi  in Isadora, in quanto è il mio primo software di programmazione grafica.

Spero che tu possa accettare la mia richiesta per ottenere il software del compilatore SDK di Isadora.

Grazie per l'attenzione..

A presto

Auguri

GIAMPIERO  

For what it's worth, I just tried opening it on 3.2.1 on Windows 10 and (aside from no media content) all the cues (up to Cue 20) had actors in them.

What's your OS? Are you using the latest version?

Cheers,

Hugh

@juriaan could you send an example patch ? 

( just to understand whaat you call system in "1" ( live capture? , 
2 means you are using same projectors for all scenes  in a background scene? with virtual stages? 
3 is where you put your get stage image? 
4 what is this go button? ( triggering next scene?  ) 

in master 2, does this mean you have to copy the keystock panic in each scene or you just make it in the Master backgrounded scene? 
3 very nice ! 
thanks a lot for your path sharing, it's really usefull and will make my patch safer! 

@AHNahum 
if you modify parameters that are not defaulted during your run through,
maybe you can enter scene trigger a  snaphsot recall, at the top of your patch, 

so that you are sure parameters taken during snapshot will be restored/loaded when entering a new scene, @jurian would this make sense to you? 

regards

@dusx

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately the OSC functionality of Zig Sim Pro for full body tracking does not appear to be working for me. I have the correct iPhone device and iOS.  I can get a connection using udp and json to the Zig Sim desktop app. Just thought I would ask before taking a different route such as node.js

Best wishes

Russell 

@craigw

It sounds like you're describing a problem that's purely to do with macOS and not Isadora, so I've moved this from the bug reports category. I have not seen this issue before but perhaps someone else has.

Best wishes,

Woland

@kmaeda

Hi there!

Welcome to the Isadora community forum. Glad to have you here :)

Regarding your question;

Are you sure that you didn't initialize the inputs in such a way that they default to 4?

To check this;

Click on the name of the input (so not the input field, but slightly to the right so that you press on the name)The Min / max / Ctrl Link / Initialize inputs open. Please check or the initialize input is not checked / the value is set to the value that you expect.

- Juriaan

Images from the premiere of “Command G” by Argentine dancer and director Gabriela Luque, member of the dance company of the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Germany

With an impressive visual poetics, Command G explores the concept of mutability in nature, objects and bodies. Developed as an interactive multimedia dance piece, Command G uses 2 projectors and 2 translucent screens that delimit and shape the stage space. 

All was entirely designed with Isadora software under the assistance and technical collaboration of the Isadora Latin Network.

Command G is one of the 8 pieces that make up the "SHIFT" program -young choreographers- of the Staatsteather.

Thank you Gabriela Luque for inviting me to be part of the project!

Thanks Isadora Team for the support !

Best,

RIL- Maxi Wille

ph: Lioba Schöneck

@trevorn1 said:

. I see now that's a tough thing to figure out.

Actually, you can find out pretty easily do it from the Terminal.

Restart your machine and open a Terminal window. (Don't open Isadora!)

Enter the following command.

lsof -i4UDP:1234

and hit return. The result will show you what process is using the port. When Isadora is running on my machine, it says

COMMAND  PID      USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME Isadora 1073 mconiglio   42u  IPv4 0xd3288f011e6d613d      0t0  UDP *:search-agent

If the process using the command is mysterious, you can try using Activity Monitor to look for the matching PID (Process Identifier) number.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@dusx Thanks so much!  But it seems like the LeDMX4 is not shipping right now.  I am wondering if something like this can be used along with the Enttec to control LEDS: DMX512 SPI Decoder - Digital RGB Addressable LED Decoder/Controller - 5-24 VDC - 

https://tinkersphere.com/led-s...

Hi there:) Just want to say thanks :)
It now works perfectly fine, actually better than before.
Great!

Eva

Hello Everybody

thanks a lot for your feedback! I have used at least 5 different cables from 10m to 2m and also a 50m optical. I was playing also with the Hertz rate (50/60)- no change. Also TB3 to HDMI.

It worked with a Windows Machine same Projector

best wishes