@thaisfernandes said:

I just purchased a license with USB KEY. I need to start working, and would like to know if I will loose my work when I receive the USB, since I will have to install the program again.

 Upon purchase of the USB key, you should have been supplied with a temporary license so that you can use the Standard Edition until the USB key arrives. If you did not receive that information open a ticket and ask our team for help.

Best Wishes,

Mark

@kirsten said:

@dbini


Thank you. I'll give the effects mixer and 3d particles a try!
Kirsten

I find it can be extremely interesting to daisy-chain Effects Mixer actorss together (making some adjustments here and there so as to create more differences between the video feeds).

Sorry for the lack of labelling (I was in a rush).

Play around with this Isadora patch, or have your students do so.

Best wishes,

Woland

Well shucks. Now I want both of these things. Neat patch @bonemap !

Best wishes,

Woland

Just because it's relevant for this topic, in case other people in future need this info, here's a step-by-step tutorial for making multiple Isadora Computers communicate over Net Broadcasters or OSC

LINK

Best wishes,

Woland

It should match the 'postfix' from the Matrix Value Receive (so that the formats are the same).

It is 'E7' or '231' as decimal.

Which reminds me that one of the promised features in Mark's keynote speech from the 2016 Werkstatt was timecode for video in the movie player.
Is this still on the roadmap for V3?
And just taking this opportunity to bump up my feature request around this and markers. Feel free to upvote if you agree!
https://community.troikatronix...

Hi ! anyone has experience with the px-pen graphic tablet ? I just bought one. Here is a patch for drawing works pretty ok using the mouse. But with the pen is not working properly: is always drawing. Thats the maine problem, also the relation between the tablet and the stage area

Thanks a lot !!

best,

maxiLive draw Wille.izz

You can use Javascript to read text files, you can also use Javascript to do error handling.

So its possible to use Javascript to Try reading a file, and determine if the file is available (exists and is readable as text) by checking for an error.

Here is a quick script that will tell you if a Text file exist, and if its Empty or Not.
=========================================

function main() {

var state; // State or 0 = good txt, 1 = Empty, 2 = Read Error
var txt;
try { 
txt = read(arguments[0]);
state = 0;
}
catch(err) {
// ERROR: unreadable file, or file doesn't exist
txt = err.message;
state = 2;
}

if (txt == ""){
// text file exists but is empty
state = 1;
}

return [txt,state];

}

=========================================

@Michel how do we format code again.. its pretty script still installed?

@kirsten

You can also use the normal Eyes actor, I am just used to do everything with Eyes++.

Best Michel

Thank you for the advise!

Will check rental prices.

we already have a GTX 1080 (not ti) on our VR testing machine, will try to squeeze as much as possible out of it.

 @dusx Thank you very much !!

@henryfung1515 said:

then trigger value 1. If not, trigger value 0

 Hi Henry,

Perhaps this method will help you. It defines a 'hotspot' for the Stage Mouse Watcher within a flexible horizontal and vertical range located in the bounds of the stage.

I am suggesting that the 'Stage Mouse Watcher' has a condition set for both the vertical range and the horizontal range which are returned as 1 or 0 by the 'Inside Range' actors, then a calculator adds 1 + 1 to get 2 and a 'Comparator' then looks for the 2 and activates a looping sequence. So the system looks for a 2 then activates a sequence if the mouse is within the 'hotspot', if any other number is returned to the Comparator (0 or 1 when the mouse is somewhere else on the stage) the loop is not active. It is the 'Output' of the Comparator that changes from 1/0 if the condition is true or false, so it is here that we pick up the switching action to activate and deactivate the loop through the on/off input of a 'Pulse Generator'. Using the Pulse Generator creates the looping action that continues for as long as the mouse is hovering within the hotspot. In this example the pulse trigger activates two 'Envelope Generator++' that apply ramping effects to the actors associated with the displayed images - rotating one through a '3D Quad Distort' actor and the 'Intensity' input of the stage Projector. The 3D Quad Distort picture mimics the movement of the mouse and this is calibrated through two 'Limit Scale Value' actors so that the icon mimicking the mouse movement is accurate to the x/y coordinates of the system mouse arrow movement.

And here is a short video of the stage in action: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zv6d...

Best  Wishes

bonemap

HI @Juriaan

thanks for your replay. Yes I normaly use a second PC with Pd and just take the audio input on PC1 with Isadora.

But for testing I thought there might be a simple solutiion with the Isadora Pc only.

best,

frank

Almost max blur.

So here's my time line. Opened the file. Heavy CPU load. Rebooted, same thing, heavy load. Deleted the gaussian blurs and all is good. Shut down computer for the day, started everything back up opened the same file that was giving me problems and now it's good. Aauugghh! So strange!

I keep this computer free of everything so its only duty is Isadora.

The activity monitor files attached are yesterdays bad, and todays good. The only change I see is the load from Isadora.

At this stage it's a mystery to me. Next time, would it help if I ran a spindump for more data collecting?

OK - my bad. its not the Buffers that are the problem. during the show I had a 3D Model Particles running as well - something I got from @Skulpture - I just tested this (on its own)(with no 3D model) and it slowed down to 14fps after an hour.

3d model particles.izz.zip

@bootzilla said:

Is there anywhere good where I can download free 3d models

 Hi, 

You can try sites like Turbosquid etc that have a lot of free downloadables.

Some of the most interesting 3D models I have used in Isadora have come from Eyewire . It is a research centre that is using an online game engine to map human neurons. So the available 3D models are from previously mapped neurons which is interesting in itself. The following clip was created using a model from Eyewire. I contacted them and was given permission to use the material for a Science Week exhibition.

@luciedance said:

Therefore would the min and max value be smaller number then I have identified

Hi Lucie

As I understand it, your out min and out max values should be the min and max values that you would like, ie -2 and 2 for the movie player.
Try changing the limit-scale actor to those values and see if that improves things

HTH

Mark (not that one...)

@michel

Thanks, I have filed a bug report.

@mark understood, obrigado