Real view turns and productions
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:31 am
Couple of things that I'm noticing lately.
1) Telling performers to turn from front sideline to back (or any significant change in facing) looks great when you just animate it without the audio sync. Once you play it with the audio, it looks jerky, kinda like it used to be in the old classic view. Not that big of a deal, but since it clearly works without the audio sync, it is noticable by comparison.
2) I almost always start my drill front the opening impact and work my way backwards to the opening set. It seems that when I do that, regardless of the information I tell it about who is playing what in the opening set, once it gets to the count that I created the performers in (in this example, the opening impact) it reverts them all to standard performers without instruments. From a programming standpoint, I think I can see why it's doing this, but it would be nice to have an option to select an instrument and have it keep that info for all counts, similar to how we can select where the labels are aligned to our symbols.
3) It seems that the longer I have the program open with the same drill, the more likely I am to start having performers lose their instrument info in the real view window and they default back to a standard performer with their arms spread out slightly. Closing and reopening always fixes this.
4) I'm 99% sure I remember somebody else saying this, but just in case, I lose instrument and uniform data between drills contained in a production. I keep them if I create a new file from the end of the old one. Since most of my personal clients get made in productions, I deal with this one almost daily.
5) I still have general issues with certain windows not taking focus correctly. The window will show up under another window entirely, and there is almost always no real way to get to it. For me the biggest offender is the real view window and the cameras menu. What I end up doing is hitting the camera button and then moving my mouse over where I think it is. When the mouse goes over the edge of the hidden window, it changes to the double arrow to re-size it. I grab it and move it over by a pixel or so and it moves to the front. Then I can set my cameras. When I close the window, I get the white border around the real view window that blanks out all the buttons and sliders. Minimizing and opening the window fixes it. I only have this issue on my desktop with dual monitors. Working on my laptop has none of these issues. Both systems are running 7.0.3 on an x64 Win 7 SP1 platform.
The one thing that is different is software I have running to manage the dual monitors. It's called DisplayFusion Pro. There is a free version that can be used and is available at http://www.displayfusion.com/ I also have a slightly different setup with my main monitor being to the right and the secondary to the left. It's mostly due to the size and shape of my desk. I think that this may be one of the things that is causing these "parent window" issues, although I have never had any problems with any other program on my system. Maybe it would be worth a shot adding it to one of your test stations to see if you can replicate the issue. I can also take a screen grab video and show you what it's doing if it would help you.
Keep up the good work. All my clients are loving the videos I'm sending from the RV window. Once you use it, it's damn near impossible to go back.
1) Telling performers to turn from front sideline to back (or any significant change in facing) looks great when you just animate it without the audio sync. Once you play it with the audio, it looks jerky, kinda like it used to be in the old classic view. Not that big of a deal, but since it clearly works without the audio sync, it is noticable by comparison.
2) I almost always start my drill front the opening impact and work my way backwards to the opening set. It seems that when I do that, regardless of the information I tell it about who is playing what in the opening set, once it gets to the count that I created the performers in (in this example, the opening impact) it reverts them all to standard performers without instruments. From a programming standpoint, I think I can see why it's doing this, but it would be nice to have an option to select an instrument and have it keep that info for all counts, similar to how we can select where the labels are aligned to our symbols.
3) It seems that the longer I have the program open with the same drill, the more likely I am to start having performers lose their instrument info in the real view window and they default back to a standard performer with their arms spread out slightly. Closing and reopening always fixes this.
4) I'm 99% sure I remember somebody else saying this, but just in case, I lose instrument and uniform data between drills contained in a production. I keep them if I create a new file from the end of the old one. Since most of my personal clients get made in productions, I deal with this one almost daily.
5) I still have general issues with certain windows not taking focus correctly. The window will show up under another window entirely, and there is almost always no real way to get to it. For me the biggest offender is the real view window and the cameras menu. What I end up doing is hitting the camera button and then moving my mouse over where I think it is. When the mouse goes over the edge of the hidden window, it changes to the double arrow to re-size it. I grab it and move it over by a pixel or so and it moves to the front. Then I can set my cameras. When I close the window, I get the white border around the real view window that blanks out all the buttons and sliders. Minimizing and opening the window fixes it. I only have this issue on my desktop with dual monitors. Working on my laptop has none of these issues. Both systems are running 7.0.3 on an x64 Win 7 SP1 platform.
The one thing that is different is software I have running to manage the dual monitors. It's called DisplayFusion Pro. There is a free version that can be used and is available at http://www.displayfusion.com/ I also have a slightly different setup with my main monitor being to the right and the secondary to the left. It's mostly due to the size and shape of my desk. I think that this may be one of the things that is causing these "parent window" issues, although I have never had any problems with any other program on my system. Maybe it would be worth a shot adding it to one of your test stations to see if you can replicate the issue. I can also take a screen grab video and show you what it's doing if it would help you.
Keep up the good work. All my clients are loving the videos I'm sending from the RV window. Once you use it, it's damn near impossible to go back.