@woland

I installed on my laptop too and got the same warning PLUS warnings for the File Reader, Skeleton Decoder, and Skeleton Visualizer

I'm not sure it is a harmless warning: if I hadn't read this forum and learned how to fix this, then I'd have to make a manual intervention every time I started Isadora, clicking Quit, or Open Plugin Folder or Continue before the program opened. If I was in, say, a gallery situation where Isadora was set to auto restart then this would be problematic.  Personally, I think it'd be better to sort this out and issue an update so it doesn't happen, and in the meantime add the issue and the solution to the 4.13 release notes.

Thanks a lot

Mark (obviously not that Mark)

@mark_m said:

 Does that mean it's happening to everyone who has the Grapher actor as an additionally loaded plug-in?

 Maybe? I'm not sure because I don't know why it's happening. It's a harmless warning that has no effect on functionality though, so I'm not super worried about it.

@woland

OK thank you, that works.

And this has just started happening in this version, 4.13, because you have updated the Grapher Actor, and made it newer than the plug-in?

So previously in Isadora 4 the 'internal' Grapher Actor and the plug-in co-existed happily?

 Does that mean it's happening to everyone who has the Grapher actor as an additionally loaded plug-in?


Thanks

@mark_m

Based on the screenshot, the warning is about the old version of the Grapher plugin you have in that external folder and doesn't actually indicate anything is wrong with 4.1.3. You can just delete the version of Grapher in that external folder as it's unused by Isadora 4 since the most up-to-date version of the Grapher actor plugin has been included internally since the release of Isadora 4.

If Isadora detects the same plugin as an internal actor and in the external actor folder, it automatically uses the newest of the two. In this case that's the internal one, which is why you have no actual problems in the program with the Grapher actor. There's just something strange with the 4 year old version you've got in the external folder, but it's unused, so you can just delete it. If you want to keep it around for use with old Isadora 3 projects, you could zip it up and then unzip it when you need it for Isadora 3. Alternatively, you can just ignore that warning from the screenshot, as it doesn't actually indicate that anything meaningful is going wrong.

@mark_m said:

In version 4.13 in Windows I get the following error message on opening Isadora. I uninstalled and reinstalled just in case, but the error continues.

 Thanks, we'll take a look at it.

In version 4.13 in Windows I get the following error message on opening Isadora. I uninstalled and reinstalled just in case, but the error continues.





when I open the plugin folder I see this:

The Grapher actor still opens fine:

@armando

I've tested it and you can control it using the PTZ image control when connected over USB-C.

I must admit that i never connect the Obsbot and always use it wirelessly and control the camera using the app or OSC.

@thatmattrogers

What you did is probably how I would do it.

Could you please send in a ticket using the link in my signature with a screen recording where you show Stage Setup and more clearly narrate and show the roadblock you're hitting within the keystoning? I get the general idea, but I want to understand more precisely so that I can accurately log this as a feature request.

Ok I was working on a project last week and a problem came up that required a "creative workaround" but I'm wondering if there is another way that I hadn't understood. 

Here's the situation. 

I had a very large projection surface that had a 3 dimensionality to it (it was made of large triangles in a pleasing low poly landscape kind of way)

I'd rigged 4 projectors to cover the whole screen.

2 downstage that covered the upper half

2 upstage to cover the lower half. 

The 2 upstage projectors were at a steep angle so that performers could get close to the screen without casting a shadow.

It seems like the blend maker in stage set-up cannot handle this orientation. I could not get everything to line up properly with each other no matter what I did. 

I need the keystoning of the upstage projector to go a little beyond the bounds of what would actually be projected. Blend maker can't do this 

So in the end I made a user actor which had a bunch of projector actors in it that mapped each of the 59 triangles that make up the wall to the most convenient projector. 

But it's there a better way?

Hi

I am just chiming in with my 2cents. I have been in this position and trying to sync video with external audio. There was no real way to do this nicely as the audio will stutter etc.

Upon asking here about 6 years ago, I followed the advice and edited the video(s) together so it is just one "super" video. 

Easiest way to do it even if it requires setting aside some editing time. Your edit is not a big ask and it is the simplest way out of your issue. 

Kinda the only way to ensure sync tbh.

Eamon