Line Puppet for OpenNI Tracker
A Skeleton Decoder action figure that uses multiple ‘3D Lines’. Paired with the OpenNI Tracker module, Line Puppet provides a modifiable figure that moves with depth camera skeleton tracking data. The figure is constructed in two halves with colour and line size parameters. Set the OpenNI Tracker parameter for ‘skeleton scale’ to ‘cm’ for expected scaling.
Floating Tunnels by Bonemap is an Isadora 3 video user actor macro. It is a recursive pattern module, as the name suggests, it generates a representation of a floating tunnel. There are parameters for colour (hue range), sine and pulse frequency. It accepts a video texture. It has a background colour parameter that can be on or off.
Sometimes you help people out and write a quick and dirty patch for free, so they can test their idea.
But you don’t want them to tour with it and earn money from your work.
Than this actor is perfect. After a set time on all the screens a text will appear. If they still want to use it they will have to contact you to get rid of it.
With this user actor you can convert a decimal number to a binary or hexadecimal value. This user actor is using javascript.
The midiLearn user actor locks to the first midi signal coming in and shows on the output side what type (control, note on/off) was triggered.
In January 2010 Graham Thorne (aka Skulpture) started with the first MidiLearn actor that simply took the first note ON and locked it to that note. This encouraged me and I expanded its features with a reset function, control detection, switching between note ON and OFF etc. We both hope you have fun with it.
Start a timer or a countdown? Want to see your movie position in seconds?
TimerTool outputs your movie position in seconds and shows it as video or number, you can choose to show the time passed or the time left of the movie.
Or just start a timer with a trigger and output it as movie or number, or do the opposite type in a number in seconds to start a countdown.
This actor takes MIDI data from native Instruments Traktor Pro 3 software and converts it into a number piece of useful information, such as tap tempo, mixer x-fade position, track volume positions, filter position and dry/wet master position.
It uses the ‘Real-Time Watcher’ actor to take a ‘beat’ from the DJ software.
You need to enable MIDI in on Port 1 (or change it if required)
Tutorial here: https://youtu.be/WmmmnTKdPNk
Note: This does require a manual set up at the Dj software end. Please contact me for help if you need help.
The Screen Capture actor will capture the video image from a display or a window and bring it into Isadora as a standard video stream. Simply choose the display or window you want to capture, and a live capture of that area of the display will appear at the video output.
Isadora 3.x and above only!
The Screen Capture actor only works with Isadora 3.x and above! Isadora 2.x and Isadora 1.x will not work with this add-on.
Apple silicon (ARM/M1)
The macOS version of this plugin has been compiled to run natively on both Intel-based and Apple silicon based computers.
Instructions / Getting Help
Our online mini-tutorial will tell you what you need to know to get up and running with this actor.
You can also refer to the integrated help for more information. Hover your cursor over any input or output, or the actor itself, and look in the Help View at the bottom right for further information.
If you need additional assistance using this actor, try asking for help in the TroikaTronix Forum. Our team and our community of users are ready to help.
Best Practices
When possible, we recommend that you place the Screen Capture actor in a background Scene and broadcast the video output to other scenes that need it.
Why? Because when you have a Screen Capture actor in each scene, and you transition from Scene A to B, it will have to shut down the capture engine in Scene A and then start up a new capture engine in Scene B. While this shut down/startup sequence is not the end of the world, it’s good to avoid it if you can.
Note that you only adopt this strategy if the settings on the Screen Capture actor are the same for each Scene.
For an example of using background Scenes with the Screen Capture actor, take a look at the patch called screen-capture-using-background-scene.izz included with this download.
Bug Reports
if you find a bug, please let us know by opening a support ticket.
Known Limitations
On Windows computers with dual GPUs, you may be able to capture from the internal laptop display but not the external displays or vice-versa. This is a limitation of the system that Windows offers to perform screen capture found not only in this actor, but in major software like OBS (Open Broadcasting System). We are investigating to see if there is a solution to this issue.
Set and visualize on the chosen stage a rectangle as a tracking zone.
Output is 1 for inside the zone, 0 outside.
You can hide/show the zone with the key ‘h’ (can be changed)
when the zones are visible, as help for tracking , the zone will highlight ( value of “intensity over”) if an object is inside.
You can choose an other color for every zone.
DO NOT FORGET to set the size of the monitor in Eyes (column, row) or Eyes++ (h res, v res) according to the stage ratio.
Show on the stage the chosen proximity zone for the Blob Target Actor.
Please select position and size in this actor and connect it to the Blob Target Actor to transfer these value. (see picture)
You must use one actor for every target.
Key ‘h’ (can be changed) to hide/show the zones.
You can choose a different color for every zone.
DO NOT FORGET to set the size of the monitor in Eyes (column, row) or Eyes++ (h res, v res) according to the stage ratio.