@videosmith - ok - i can confirm it will still include the full 30 day license rental - so this two day course is now basically a bargain! 

we have 5 places left!

@dillthekraut there is also "protokol" which outputs a stream of OSC values to a user-defined-length text file (for example 50 lines of osc values). I had the idea to read the stream with some kind of lightweight script and generate GUI status graphics with select extracted values. Might be a "later" project as I am loving the isadora grapher actor and it seems quite lightweight. As I am using Resolume for my video engine and Isadora for my logic, having a small isadora stage on my monitor with the grapher and a few doo-dads seems to add very little overhead.

How very exciting! I am looking forward to digging in. We just finished a proof of concept show for our project a couple weeks ago with great success and are building to a larger production now. Looking forward to the pythoner, the show/hide controls, user actor help, and the cool new look. I am so happy to see all of the new developments. Congratulations to all of you on the new version release!

Best, - J

The solution is to use an Absolute Value Actor. -> servo_test_01.izz

@gaspar Thanks very much!

Hey friends--I am thrilled to once again be working with Kinetech and Mills College at Northeastern to present another round of DanceHack. For those that don't know, DanceHack is a somewhat annual gathering of dance and technology interested artists, engineers and academics. We have some incredible guests lined up to teach workshops and present their research. The weekend also includes hours of mind blowing hacking with spontaneously created collaborative teams of choreographers, dancers, performers of all kinds and engineers of all sorts.  it is coming up September 27, 28, 29 in Oakland, CA. More info: http://www.dancehack.org

@dusx

That's fabulous news.

Thanks guys.

J

@reload2024

Hi there!

It really depends on your media; the movie player is tuned and heavily tested every single time that we do a release on multiple platforms, and multiple devices. But I don't believe our testsuite contains a movie file with that resolution.

We are always happy to help debug / optimize your patch if you find any weird behavior. Feel free to sent us a ticket and we will look at your footage / help you debug the problem.

https://support.troikatronix.com/support/tickets/new

@bonemap

Hi there Russell, 

Thank you so much for the kind words, I think the team is currently trying to get some well deserved sleep / rest :)

Great to hear that OpenNI is still functional, and for sure! Python opens a lot of doors for future work / machine learning models that we can utilize to track performers in a space. I know that the team is really invested in this, and we will likely share more about that / publish that to the Add-on store when we are happy with the results.

Let us know if you have any other feedback for Isadora 4.x, we are listening!

- Juriaan

@deflost said:

the advantage of izzycast

One key advantage is the tight integration into Isadora, another is the professional server architecture supporting the 1080p video and HiFi Audio streams. You can of course link together an number of separate tools, sharing video and audio via Syphon or NDI, but you need to manage a lot more on your system. Connection/Setup time will be greater, and you don't have the integrated data channel that can be used to control hardware in remote locations.

eg: you could trigger lighting cues in your remote performers space from your Isadora project, Or allow your remote participants to send votes on different topics to you driving Realtime info graphics.

The options are endless. 

As far as cost, it is not necessary to have a live IzzyCast session running to program most things. Anything you do with the data channel can be worked out over a broadcaster/listener pair. Of course its not for everyone. We struggled working out a fair price for IzzyCast credits. So much has gone into setting up this new tool and so much more has to go into it to maintain it as we move forward. It is our hope that it becomes a powerful tool in the toolbox that is Isadora, and we look forward to seeing what the community makes of it.

Thank you!

Very helpful. 

I didn’t realize that I could copy and paste slices between projector actors — that will definitely simplify my workflow!

@BvG73

I always go these steps:
1. Using the internal test pattern without any picture manipulation, to have the projectors full potential fit to the screen.
2. Check if the signals picture is coming as expected. If not, check why.
3. Deciding if any adjustments are better be done in the projector or the software.

@jandraka Thank you so much! I'll give this a go today and report back. Maybe not having the return has been the culprit.

@reload2024 said:

 I'm trying to import a HAP encoded wav file into my video bin

I'm confused. "HAP" is a video codec and "wav" is an audio file format. I was unware it was even possible to even create a hap.wav file, but even if you did, it wouldn't import into the video bin because .wav is an audio file format, so Isadora would try to import it as an audio file. It certainly may be possible to create a file like this, but I've never used one with Isadora and to the best of my knowledge we've never tested with this odd codec+file format combination, and therefore I'd say that hap.wav is an unsupported media format.

@perombre

Follow the steps in this article about using TouchOSC with Isadora and see if you're still having issues. Sometimes it's easy to miss a step in the setup process. I just confirmed TouchOSC is working for me.

Here are some steps to try:

Make sure you're not on a network with a ton of security like university wifi. (Ideally you want a dedicated network for this so you don't have to deal with traffic from others on the same network.)On your computer, make sure you're connected to the same network as the device running TouchOSC, if you're not and you switch networks, you'll need to quit Isadora and re-launch it (not just close the Isadora file and re-open it, but actually quit the Isadora application and re-launch it). This will cause Isadora to operate using the IP it got for the new network.Open Isadora Preferences/Settings by going to Isadora > Preferences/Settings (it'll say "Settings" if you're on a newer version of macOS)In Isadora Preferences, go to the "Midi/Net" tab and make sure that under Open Sound Control (OSC) > IP Port Number it's set to 1234 (should be the default).Check what IP address Isadora is using (all the way at the bottom of Isadora Preferences, labeled "Local IP Address"). Note this IP address or keep Isadora Preferences open for the next steps so you can reference it.In TouchOSC under "Connections" make sure the first two items you can click on have the "Host" set to the same IP address that appears at the bottom of Isadora Preferences.

@goodboy said:

I'm looking for a step by step tutorial of connecting the gear so I have a reference and I don't get too dizzy or lost.

 Something like this? 

https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/6332/triggering-isadora-3-with-osc-from-an-etc-ion-nomad

@Skulpture 

Nice - seeing this post I actually just added it to this semester's upcoming syllabi!

@woland Thanks

I just purchased and installed a BlackMagic Decklink Quad HDMI on my PC tower with a 4070 GPU. I can get the Quad to show HDMI input from my Panasonic AG-CX 350 via Black Magic software and the most updated OBS. Isadora shows a black screen when live capture is enabled and started. It recognizes the device, but there is a black screen/no image or audio. I double checked that my resolution out via HDMI matched what Izzy was expecting (1080p 59.97fps). I toggled between "native" and explicitly setting the exact resolution/framerate.

I remember this happening before with a completely different system/camera and I can't remember what I did to make it work, but it worked without configuration after I did that "thing".  Can anyone offer some steps to troubleshoot this issue?  So excited to have this setup and would love to make it work. :)

I made sure the OS, GPU, and software version was as updated as possible.

@demetri79 The way that a texture is mapped to a model is not decided by Isadora, it is set when the UV mapping for the model is made. This lets you specifically set which part of an image goes to which part of a models surfaces.

To do this with a cube will not be so difficult - take a look at this explanation: https://all3dp.com/2/blender-u...

There are a lot of Blender tutorials online covering this.

You can see here though that each side of the model gets its texture from a different part of the image that is being used to texture it. You can render a video that has all the smaller videos in place so they match the texture map and then play that in Isadora and feed it into the texture input of the 3d model player.

You can also dynamically create this - you can have 6 different image sources and then combine them so they have the same layout as what the model expects for its texture and UV map. You can use a virtual stage to do this. With each 6 image sources, send them to the same virtual stage and on each use the mapper to get the source content and place it on the precisely correct position and size on the virtual stage. The size of the virtual stage should be set to whatever texture aspect ratio was used in the model, ie if it was made with a 512 * 512 texture then make a square texture (you can use the texture scaling to correct things if you need).

Then when all the 6 pieces are being sent to the right locations on the virtual stage, you can get the image from the virtual stage and send that to the texture input of the model player. This will let you send any video or image to any side of the cube and be able to control the content for any side independently in real time.