Facility Control

In Xpression, we are using a group to play through a sponsor roll. The sponsor items are just instances of the same scene, using a datalinq material, along with a table in Dashboard, to assign the logos to the scene. We have a button in dashboard which puts the group onnline, and the group is set to play each item for 10sec. Here's where my question comes in.

We have some special times where we will be covering up the sponsor logos (make some noise animation, defense, etc). Currently, the sponsor loop continues to play through as another layer plays the animation on top. Is there a way in Dashboard to pause this group playback when we fire the upper layer?

Also asked in Xpression forum.

Thanks!

There is not currently any simple command/mechanism to pause a timed group.

There is a way to achieve a similar effect using the scene directory and scripts triggered by RossTalk GPIs to pause/resume but, for the details, you'll probably want to post your question in the XPression forum.

Cheers.

James

#DashBoard

Thanks James. So I believe as long as the group is still active, you can take things on and offline whenever you want, and the autoplay function will continue as normal. So what about a toggle button in dashboard that would do something like this:

When toggled on:
get the take ID that is currently online (say Framebuffer 1 layer 2) and store that TakeID number in a variable
Take the item offline, while putting the new item online


When toggled off:
Get that stored take ID number and use it to take that item back online. (which would essentially restart the loop from that point)



Is it possible to retrieve take ID numbers in this way?

#DashBoard

The communication is one-way between DashBoard and XPression so you'd either need to manually track which take ID is currently online inside of your Custom Panel or do the tracking/management in XPression's scripting.
#DashBoard