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Hi Guys,

I have a sports Score Bar with multiple scene directors for the various in-game animations for Flag, Touchdown, PlayClock, etc. All of them animate on, pause, and animate off. I am looking for a way to remotely trigger the individual scene directors from a RossTalk Command. We are using Xpression Prime so scripting is not available. Thanks for your expertise.

Hi,

I have Prime and have been able to do some crazy stuff without scripting. What I suggest is make a bunch of scenes for each of the scene directors you want to trigger. Set these up to be triggered by RossTalk. Those scenes will have scene directors with scene director triggers in them that trigger the other scene directors (that's a bit of a mouthful!). That should do the trick. But, you must have the scene(s) with the scene directors that you wanted to trigger in the first place online for them to be triggered by the other scenes.

I hope that's clear and not confusing.
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Thanks Hopejr,

That would work, however I was trying to avoid multiple scenes because it requires score bar to be on multiple layers. This complicates some of the fail-safe functions on the xpression switcher which clears the score bar by clearing layer 20.

I've had success with visual logic for other functions and was hoping to utilize GPI triggers via Ross Talk in Visual Logic. So far, I do not see any connection between the two. Anyone have insights on GPI triggers in visual logic?

Another thought was to use the "user" buttons on the keyboard to trigger the different scene directors. However, I could not find a way to do it in Xpression without scripting (which is not in prime).
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From what I can tell, there is no link between VL and GPI triggers. The only sort of triggers that VL links to are scene directors in that particular scene.

With my method, you don't need to have the score bar on multiple layers. Build your score bar scene as one scene on one layer, with the multiple scene directors in it to animate the various bits. Those scene directors will be triggered by other scene directors in the scenes that I suggested that you create. You can actually trigger scene directors from other scenes.
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Reading what I've written, the multiple use of the terms scene and scene director make it as clear as mud. Sorry about that. Here's another go.

1. Create your scene for your score bar (call this Score Bar).
2. Add the various scene directors to it that you need to animate the different parts of it that you're wanting to do (Flag, Touchdown, PlayClock)
3. Create another scene called Flag Trigger
4. In that scene's default scene director, add a scene trigger event that triggers "Flag" in "Score Bar" (you can actually do that).
5. Do steps 3 and 4 for the other animations.
6. Using RossTalk, take the scenes created in steps 3 and 4. These will then in turn trigger the scene directors in Score Bar.

I hope that's more clear.
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Sounds like you have the right idea Hopejr.. The only thing I would add would be on the scene called "flag trigger", on it's scene director you could also add a "Take Offline" event so that after it starts the scene director in the score bar scene, the "flag trigger" scene automatically goes off-air.

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Yes, I was just coming in to add that. I usually take adding that for granted and forgot to put it into the steps (without it, you wouldn't be able to use it again without manually taking it offline). I would also put them all on a layer that you wouldn't use for anything else, like layer -99.
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Wow. My mind is blown. That is an awesome way to do it. Thanks for the idea Hopejr.
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