@skuven I will give it a try ! Thanks 

Best,

Maxi-RiL

@jfg

thanks, that's a helpful suggestion. And yes, I'm running Blackhole so i can send it out and back using different channels.

I'm guessing restoring that function within the movie actor is not likely to happen soon. What a pity Apple messed up Quicktime.

thanks @jfg @skuven 

Hi all

I have been toying with isadora as a game engine for a while now for fun and ive had a great time over the past couple of weeks making a tank controls user actor. Its surprisingly tricky to get this kind of control of a character model normally. I might make the actor into a macro and allow downloads if anyone is interested.

Ive been pushing Isadora to its limits over the last few years as part of my job at the Academy of Live Technology UK, lecturing in live events technologies. My specialisms are sound and video systems but have got very into automation and that kind of thing. I dont know how i will use this yet but have been toying with the idea of a video game presentation that takes a person through different interactive game eras in the same experience - 2D into 3D with probably a health dosage of plagerism!(Joke)

Resident Evil 3 De-make

@jfg Thank you! That worked!

@dusx Hey Ryan, thank you for getting back to me. Yes, my current set up is as my signature.

Simon

@kfriedberg said:

In the NVIDIA Control Panel there's a setting for power management, which I set it to prefer maximum performance and rebooted.

 Interestingly, I took another look, and the performance management utilities on my Lenovo Legion, automatically switches this based on my mode. So 'game' mode which I use for shows sets this to maximum.

@video-architect here's a quick Izzy file with the appropriate actors. You just need to change the I.P. address of the ArtNet Send actor.

Hope this helps! 

Simon

dmx-lighting-artnet-send.izz

@tatrapikao said:

isadora 3

 Isadora has not been updated.
All updates since the release of Isadora 4 are in subsequent Isadora 4 releases.

I would love it for there to be a custom shapes actor that could behave a little like the Composite Mapper in Izzy Map. It would be great to have an actor that could make a custom shape by double clicking on it (like how we get to Izzy Map) to allow you to use the methods of the Composite map to create unique shapes for masks and the like. It would be amazing to have the ability to soften the edges of the shape inside this custom mapper as well.

I often do this via a virtual stage mapping a Background Colour with the Composite Mapper in a projector going to a virtual stage then Getting the Stage Image and sending this custom shape often to the Alpha Mask Actor or using it as a piece of content. It would be lovely to have an actor that does this alone, without having to use a virtual stage.

I hope that is clear. Thanks so much.

Cheers,

Cam.

@citizenjoe nope. Playback still stops after a few hundred frames backwards..

@mmharvey

In the program you can also go to Help > Isadora Manual...

The section Actor Reference is what you're looking for

@juriaan

Thanks. Just found this topic. I assume it's all still relevant. Thanks this is just what I need as I'm setting up the exact same hardware.

@Eva

another possibility on Mac is syphon Recorder. I use it always, it is easier to configure as OBS and it works very well:

https://syphon.info/recorder.html

Best regards, 

Jean-François

@drpjm

Did you close and re-open Isadora? It won't remap the python environment until that is done. 
I assume you have watched these tutorials: Using the Pythoner Actor – Do More in Isadora with Python - YouTube

NOTE: Python is not initialized in Isadora until a Pythoner actor is added to the project. You can update the 'environment activation file' and restart Isadora, and the Python Virtual Environment setting under the Help menu will appear GRAYED OUT & (Awaiting Activation) until the Pythoner actor is added to the project. 

@ubik Thanks for sharing...loved the Fluid UV Distort !

Best,

Maxi-RIL

@woland Thanks for the Suggestion. Still - having this feature inside Stage Settings would enable the User to Safe the Setting with the Show. That would simplify Setup and reduce room for error, espacially in enviroments where we run multiple Shows from the same Computer. Cheers

@eva said:

Will it help to add a scaler or should I change the videos outside of Isadora?

 Re-exporting your media at a lower resolution then using that lower-res content in Isadora is less load-intensive for Isadora than scaling the content in real time inside Isadora.

I just posted an update to my DX – Cube2LUT – ColorGrading user actors (demo file).
It now includes a user actor that allows you to CREATE a 64^ CUBE LUT via 8 color inputs.
These basically allow you to remap colors within the grade to a new range

Please give it a try (requires a Pythoner virtual environment is setup, and numpy and cv2 are installed)
I see this has had a few hundred downloads, but I haven't received any feedback. I'm happy to continue to make updates to these tools if they are proving useful to you.

@wotrombone said:

Are there other ways to fade into the next scene with  a jump actor that use those times? is there a way to automatically grab those times?

You could also just use one of the different Jump actors (for example Jump By Name) and set your fade times in the Jump actor. I usually don't use the Scene fade times and use jump actors instead. This might be a lot of work depending on whether you've already got a bunch of cues programmed. 

Generally, I use a Background actor renamed to "#CUES" and put stuff like the Jump Macro you've built in there. Then I put that Background in the same place in every Scene (generally top right) so that I know where it is in any given Scene and, since the Background actor has been renamed to "#CUES", I can use the hashtag list to jump to it easily if I need to find and edit it.

I tend to make a template Scene with the stuff I need most often and just copy-paste that Scene when I need to create a new Scene, then modify the copy. It'll already have whatever Jump actor I'm using with a default timing of 3 seconds in it, so that I don't need to manually set that every time and only need to change that number if I want a different fade time for a specific Scene.

@woland said:

You’re already in the beta program so you should have access to the new beta and new audio actors. Have you tried working with any of those?

 I have not tried them, but will check it out. I was interested in VCV for things like envelopes with attack, sustain, release, sequencers,various modulators etc. Working with VCV when doing audio reactive work offers up all kinds of weirdo ways of analyzing and using audio-as-control. It also puts the "brain" in one spot and allows me to use the OSC outputs in Isadora, Touch, Processing etc.