@fred said:

We hear you @Woland - the limited staff is the reason for the rate of progress - no spite - just offering a work around - have a great day!!

My apologies, I was a bit grumpy because I'd been at the office for around 34 hours straight when I read your comment yesterday (and then stayed for another five). Hope you have a great day too :)

@smoon

Are you using the Kinect V2 with the OpenNI Tracker plugin? (TROIKATRONIX : ISADORA - OpenNI Tracker)
If you are wanting to use it for body tracking, it should work with this plugin if you follow the instructions (require running in Rosetta mode on non-Intel macs)

@plzhelplol

And regarding your second question;

I use the 'Output' value; the output is either a 0 or a 1 (a number value), if you connect that to a true or false (a boolean value) it causes 0 = false and 1 = true

That way we don't need a Trigger value.

@fred

Thanks for the guidance, it was very helpful and made our show possible. In the end, we used the timecode audio track.

I am going to look into the timecore device in the near future with the view of improving on what we have done so far.

@smoon said:

'extend screen'

 Since you have extend screen set, I assume you have more than one display connected. The second display is likely projector since you are mapping?
You need to change which display the stage is assigned to via the Stage Setup dialog. Once you set the stage to use the second display, you should have your output on the second display and still have access to Isadora on your main display. In this way you can open IzzyMap and make changes live. 

Additionally, IzzyMap has the ability to publish parameters for external modification.. this allows live adjustment via any input you like.. for example you could use the color of a video input to change the rotation of a mapping. You can publish parameters by right-clicking points and selecting to publish them. Then when you close IzzyMap you can adjust these values externally. I don't think this is what you were asking about, but it might be of interest.

Thanks for the opportunity to work with the new Leap Motion Actor. I really appreciate it. It works flawlessly.

 By the looks of it, it is tracking the palm data location and rotation. If I could make a humble request, the one point I find very useful in the ultraleap SDK is the index next distal point (index fingertip). I think it's a useful point for screen drawing and general motion capture for mapping to all kinds of things. I know that the rotation value is not accessible for the fingertips, but I think the position for the index fingertip would open up all kinds of possibilities.

@mr_j said:

Any suggestions much appreciated 

How about this?

File Download: glsl-simple-quad-shaders-2024-12-05-4.0.2.zip

@woland

Thank you!
That is the trick of tricks and was just what I wanted!

Cheers

Mark

@ravenetta

Using this ascii chart: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/ASCII-Table.svg

I can see that when you receive a Distance, you are getting the value followed by cm and a carrage return and a line feed. so "\r\n"

You get the same EOL for your errors, so you should be able to use the Serial In Watcher - Text actor with a EOL of 13. You can use this same msg:string={00-FF} to allow all character thru.

@smoon said:

for Mac

You'll have a better time working with the Kinect on an Intel Mac because on an Apple Silicon computers (M1, M2, M3, etc) you'll need to right-click the Isadora application on your desktop or in the Applications folder, choose "Get Info", and check "Open using Rosetta". (You only need to change this setting once on an Apple Silicon machine, but if you don't do it, the OpenNI Tracker actor won't show up in the program. I'm not sure but you might need to do it again if you update to a newer version of Isadora, as the new Isadora 4 application will replace the old Isadora 4 application and I'm not sure if the setting is preserved through that process.)

Please take a moment to add your hardware and Isadora version to your signature line as per this post, as it helps us with troubleshooting and giving advice: https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/6764/everyone-read-add-your-operating-system-and-hardware-to-your-signature-line

@woland Hello
thank you very much for your answer to my problem
i had tried several times to uninstall the program even i tried with previous versions but finally what worked for me was to uninstall and delete all the folders that had information from isadora
now at last i have all the basic actors thank you very much for the help <3

@tegruber

Hello, welcome to the forum.

Please take a moment to add your hardware and Isadora version to your signature line as per this post, as it helps us with troubleshooting: https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/6764/everyone-read-add-your-operating-system-and-hardware-to-your-signature-lineTry switching the Movie Player actor's 'optimize' input to 'interaction' and see if that makes any difference.Try re-exporting (not converting) one of the original files as hap.mov, hap.avi, and h264.mp4 and see if any of those work.Here's a potential workaround (assuming you don't need the video files to play audio too):File Download: movie-playback-to-end-workaround-2024-12-03-4.0.2.izz

@skuven said:

maybe I should do a scripting course

 If this is something you are considering, you might look at Python rather than Javascript. When working in Isadora, python will open up many more possibilities, and once you learn one it will make the other much easier.

The Open Call for Bucharest Dance Hack has just launched. Deadline for applications is 31st December. The Hack will take place April 7 - 11.

https://dancehack.eu/developin...

@woland said:

 If you ever end up documenting your discoveries online in the form of a tutorial or their results in the form of a showcase, let us know and we'll happily signal-boost it on our socials :)

 I am afraid that the python work is exciting to me but a bit on the boring side: 

I am migrating 20 years worth of studio archives on LTO5 and HDD. I had been using Tolis BRU for the LTO archives which is now, of course, out of business. I've upgraded to LTO8 and don't ever want use a proprietary system again so I moving to completely open standards for the tape archives - Python, Linux, CSV, SQLite and GNU PAX TAR. (LTFS has show stopping limitations for me)

I am finding it a really rewarding project - I'm getting a better understanding of modular multi-layer development in python and have really been excited about what you can accomplish with Github Copilot. It's a bit buggy, but it is so much better than copy/paste/repeat from an LLM. You can really refine the context, have it asses your modules and codebase when building and refactoring etc. Up to this point, I've spent most of my time planning, building GUI drafts and developing the architecture to make things super clear for me and for co-pilot.

The crossover with Isadora is learning more about python and about programming concepts in general. I have done lots of bits of Javascript for AfterEffects/Isadora and Python for Resolve and Blender on my own and using Claude and GPT. I can't wait to use VS Code and Copilot to continue that work - there is so much less back and forth when the context is clarified. I am also excited to work with the Pythoner actor, too.

@wjmackwood-0

This change was made to avoid a situation where the range of channels being input dynamically would break many setups. Since changing this input changes the actual number of outputs, there is no way to dynamically connect these outputs if new ones are added, and if the number is made less the connections which were made are lost.
This approach of limiting the dynamic input of parameters that change the Input and Output count of actors was made throughout the software, and helped to address a few reported issues/bugs.

How were you using the chan # outputs?

Perhaps this is a case where a macro might be better suited since you can have different settings in each copy.

@trevor

There's also multiple ways of triggering cues without the "Edit Go Triggers". Here are some files of mine that I believe are relevant to that (and some related to the Cue Sheet function):

spacebar_go_non-linear_cueing_example-2023-10-16-3.2.6.zip

spacebar-keyboard-watcher.izz

sequential_trigger_with_double-trigger_prevention-2023-05-12-3.2.6.izz

double-trigger-prevention.izz

cue_sheet_mock-up-2023-05-12-3.2.6.izz

cueing-cue-stack-user-actor.izz

using-comparators-for-cueing-v2-2023-02-07-3.2.6.izz

control-watcher-scene-transitions-v2-2024-07-19-3.2.6.izz

cueing_example-2023-05-12-3.2.6.izz

manual-override-for-automatic-cues-2024-02-06-3.2.6.izz

Additionally, if you're just talking about Scene Navigation, the "Scene Select" control can be clicked to jump back to a Scene, and the "Next Cue" and "Prev Cue" controls can be used to jump to the next Scene and Previous Scene respectively.