Graphics

Newbie question... sorry.

Building a graphics effect where a base graphics with a simple slide in will effect in on "layer 20" and sit at a pause until triggered to reverse to offline, and a "highlighting detail" (one of 11 possible graphics than can be played at random) will be displaying in layer 21. The highlight is a simple effect in and pause. The highlight detail will be a page of random access, so when the highlight is done, I want to have the base page and the highlight detail page both effect off, by using the PAUSE REVERSE event action.

Is there a way to do that? Want to set it up for an operator playing back a show, but I will most likely never meet them or talk to them... Don't know if they are better or worse off than I am in knowing XPression.

How would I do that?

...and thanks for helping the newbie, again.

You could use a keyboard shortcut to resume two layers at the same time. In the keyboard mapping menu, drag the "Script Action" shortcut from the Global Functions into the Project Shortcuts section. Click on the Edit Script Action button and paste the following script:



dim output as xpOutputFramebuffer

dim takeitem as xpBaseTakeItem

engine.GetOutputFramebuffer(0, output)

output.GetTakeItemOnLayer(20, takeitem)

takeitem.execute

output.GetTakeItemOnLayer(21, takeitem)

takeitem.execute



This will resume both layer 20 and 21 of the first framebuffer simultaneously. You can assign a Direct Action Shortcut to trigger this script based on a keyboard press.

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Awesome! Thank you Brian!

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