@wedkim

As I wrote in your ticket (just re-writing it here for the benefit of others) the instructions for this can be found by right-clicking the Rokoko Studio Live Watcher actor and selecting the top menu option "Show Actor Help in Browser". The actor's help text also says this (though it tells you to use the top menu, which is not my preferred method).

@wedkim

As I wrote in your ticket (just re-writing it here for the benefit of others) the instructions for this can be found by right-clicking the Rokoko Studio Live Watcher actor and selecting the top menu option "Show Actor Help in Browser". The actor's help text also says this (though it tells you to use the top menu, which is not my preferred method).

@wedkim

Hi!

To stream Rokoko data you need the Rokoko Studio software and a active subscription for their Plus software, this unlocks the capability of transmitting data to other programs. Isadora can then interface with that stream of data with the Rokoko actors that you can find in our software.

Happy to run you thru it, Rokoko has changed a couple steps with their latest software offerings 

Hi, could you help me how did you connect Rokoko and Isadora together? I followed all the steps from the tutorial but it is not streaming. if it is okay with you could you share the screenshot of how the nodes are connected? 

Please let me know.

Thanks.

Hi, so to connect Rokoko and Isadora, I need StreamWeaver Lite? or OBS? I am a bit lost how to do this part. I have downloaded the guru file but having trouble with connecting with rokoko. I did download the plugins. what I am missing? could you please help? 

TextEdit has the possibility to set the background to dark, then set the text color to white, and you can also speak the text if you want.

I have added a "contrast adjust" actor because the TextEditor background appears not totally black in Isadora. 

if you can work with a second monitor for TextEditor it is very confortable

TexEdit:

Best regards, 

Jean-François 

@jrhooker said:

It worked a treat...ONCE!

Bad news: It seems you ran into the same weird bug that I'm in the middle of documenting. (Basically, if you have Live Capture enabled and duplicate a Scene where the Scene Capture actor has the 'window cpu mode' enabled, that Screen Capture actor will refuse to work until you quit and re-launch Isadora. Very strange.)

Good news: As far as I can tell, this can only occur via the highly-specific scenario I described above, meaning it'll only ever happen when you're building a patch and won't actually be a problem when you're running a show. 

The workaround is to use a Capture Control actor with 'function' set to 'none' to turn off Live Capture briefly before duplicating a Scene containing a Screen Capture actor with the 'window cpu mode' enabled.

After you duplicate the Scene, you can use another Capture Control actor set to 'vid+aud' or the keyboard shortcut for starting live capture Cmd+e (macOS)/ Ctrl+e (Windows) to start live capture again.

@jrhooker said:

@woland That's why they pay you the pick bucks -- lol!

I wish 

@jrhooker

There are numerous Python modules that can load and render different text formats.
If you are infact working with an RFT text file you can
use pypandoc to convert this to HTML (best option for formatting) and then use html2image to get a rendered image. 

The workflow would be something like:

RTF file → [pypandoc] → HTML
HTML → [html2image] → PNG or RGBA Image
Image → [numpy array] → Isadora video output

Depending on what is the easiest file for your editing purposes the process may need to change.
Did you say you are editing in Google Docs? If so you could have Pythoner fetch the document directly as HTML, and continue the render process.

Natively there are no Rich Text render tools in Isadora. Perhaps in the future an HTML renderer might be considered. That is the most flexible available currently I think.

@woland That's why they pay you the pick bucks -- lol!

It worked a treat...ONCE!

I'm pretty sure I'm doing something silly, but can you see what that is? I was working with trying to get it to scroll and while I was messing with it, the google doc image went away and I can't get it back. I don't understand why it's grabbing the desktop and not the file I'm trying for. Right now I'm not hooked up to a second display...should that matter? 

@jrhooker said:

I am writing/editing a piece of text that will then be projected, scrolling over a live feed video.

Set the background of your Google Doc to bright green and then use Chroma Key to key it out. I just did an experiment with this and it worked like a charm.

You may also want to add a black highlight to your text and make your default text color white. This will allow your text to show up and be readable regardless of what color the image in the background is.