Hi there,

I think I solved this issue my self. Using a Keybaord Watcher and Toggle.

@merni As an extra tip, when you make the test pattern make it so it is cropped to the same aspect ratio of your blended screen. This makes it easier to know if you are warping the image. So if your screen (made of 4 blended beamers) is 4m * 6m make sure your test pattern is cropped to a ratio of 4:6 (eg 2000 pixels by 3000 pixels). Then you can line up the outer corners and edges of all the beamers and pull the inner corners in to match and blend.

If there are any features on your projection surface - door edges, holes, ridges etc it can be useful to mark them on the line up pattern too, as long as you measure them exactly and put them in the right place on the line up - it can make your line up faster and more accurate as you can quickly put the corners in the right place and drag the features to match.

Having perfect squares in your test pattern is very useful, you can measure projected squares with a tape measure and see if they are actually square.

@ijevansdesign What kind of converter are you using to:

1. convert from a port on your mac to the connection on the beamer?

2. Extend the signal from your mac to the beamer?

3. Possibly decode a signal from an extension system to the beamer?

The issue you report (unavailble resolutions) sounds like part of your chain is not able to handle the bandwidth you are transmitting over a the cable/convertor setup you are using. Can you test the directly plugged in port and cable/convertor chain piece by piece with different convertors and cabling (the ones you know work)?

@woland

bingo! thanks for that. The two steps I hadn't taken were: fully quitting Isadora, and replacing the User Actor directly into the folder. 

@anibalzorrilla said:

He tells me that they closed Isadora by mistake a few times during the show. I haven't seen the patch yet, once I see it I'll see what I can do to avoid it.

Sounds like they are probably using the Ctrl key as a modifier key. Just have them switch their modifier key to shift, alt, or option. Either that or buy a cheap keyboard and pop off the Q key/tape cardboard or a bottlecap over the Q key.

Best wishes,

Woland

@j-grima

Please go and download the NDI Watcher from the add-ons page: https://troikatronix.com/add-o...

This add-on will allow you to connect to multiple NDI sources.
This is the preferred method in Isadora, I would not recommend the NDI virtual input, unless you need to use it for specific reasons.

@dusx

facepalm. 

I was so simple but i couldn't see it! thanks

Just made a new test with "Monitors using separate space" and it is working good (see the pictures). I could use 3 stages with three different screen (2 Monitors and a projector connected to the Apple TV)+ the screen of my MacBook and the films were running on the 3 screens.

@dusx

Your user actor works perfect!

Thanks again

@dusx Thank you so much. This is helpful! Cheers!

@woland Thank you. Very helpful to understand reasons as well as actions. Many thanks to the the Izzy community for the help.

@dusx

Bumm! Thanks DusX! That was it. I changed to Multi-Output device, turned on capturing and it works now! Thanks for the tip!

@dusx

thanks. that did it

And on Cinema 4D just make your 3D model and export it to 3ds format.

@gaspar

@Woland is absolutely right about the issue with the button. You can do the same by manually clicking the trigger input twice on the Jump++ actor (this is a sort of hidden feature).

A MulitBolcker actor is another easy way to solve this double-click issue (however setting the buttons up correctly is preferred).

@hlm001 said:

Is it determined by the resolution of the projector?

 Ideally make them match the resolution and aspect ratio of your physical projector, yes.

@jameshooton

Here is a demonstration of working with Blender 2.79 to assign an image texture to a 3DS geometry file...

assigning a texture to 3ds in Blender

Best Wishes

Russell

@juriaan said:

personally I set the input / output to timecode

 Yes, this is a very convenient way to have standard time to reference. Simply use the Timecode comparator to do the > (greater than) test.

@reinhard Absolutely wonderful thank you! Never knew about the Scene Intensity actor - very useful

@dusx

Thank you very much, that was really helpful!