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RE: Xpression scene layout issue

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 01-22-2025 14:24
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Xpression tries to keep things "in place" when you change the hierarchy. Watch the positions in the whole chain. Sometimes it is off in the Math. If you have any animations already set, animations might unexpectedly change what you see. The more you use the software you will get the feel of ...

RE: Can't See Effects when zoomed in

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 01-21-2025 16:17
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Provide some screenshots. Also, what version are you using? Someone from Ross would know if it is a version bug. ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------

RE: Loading a Specific Webpage Through Scripting?

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 01-21-2025 11:59
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If you want to show power outages, hopefully the website has an API. In which you can get raw data and display it. Showing the outages website instead of getting data is kinda' crap solution. Power outage data is available from here: https://poweroutage.us/products It's not free, but is ...

RE: Loading a Specific Webpage Through Scripting?

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 01-17-2025 17:06
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Perhaps Ross has a better idea than I do. I haven't done it but have done a 10 minute search for some info. 1) Have a server that can render a webpage from the command line. This has many problems. Biggest is feedback in the MOS plugin or just getting the image in a timely manor. But here are ...

RE: Xpression - Resetting score when weight class is changed

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 01-16-2025 12:50
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I don't have much experience with Widgets, but I imagine the Widget is changing the text object when the weight class changes. As far as grabbing the widget, grab the project from the scene : Proj = Scene.Project, and then use Proj.GetWidgetByName Don't use Engine.GetWidgetByName There ...

RE: dynamically change the color of a quad to match the colors in a logo

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 01-15-2025 10:38
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If you are using a spreadsheet via datalinq, have the logo one column and the color in another. I prefer VB and the XPression API SDK to change the color of the material. However, anything else using the same material gets the color change. Or dynamically create a new material with the SDK. ...

RE: Texts with datalinqs flicker when saving excel file

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 01-14-2025 17:47
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Yes, I understand. What might be happening is upon save the datalinq server might be sending blanks upon save when the file is locked by the OS. A Ross person would know for sure. What I suggested would theoretically work because you would never display blank/whitespace data. What version of ...

RE: Texts with datalinqs flicker when saving excel file

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 01-14-2025 17:05
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Replace the white space. Here is a global VB function I use for replacing: Function RegExpReplace(src as String, rgx as String, rplc as String) Dim rObj as Object Dim rez as String rObj = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp") rObj.Pattern = rgx rObj.Global = True rez = rObj.Replace(src,rplc) ...

RE: Texts with datalinqs flicker when saving excel file

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 01-14-2025 16:41
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The last line: However, before the text is copied, make sure it is not an empty string. If it's empty, don't copy it. You might have to implement regex and replace against whitespaces to make sure a textfield doesn't get filled with whitespaces only. ------------------------------ ...

RE: Texts with datalinqs flicker when saving excel file

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 01-14-2025 16:12
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Without having experienced it and trying a simple solution, I have a complicated one. Make the textfields that are linked to the data invisible and they copy their data to a display when the data changes. However, before the text is copied, make sure it is not an empty string. ------------ ...

RE: How to create an inverted alpha mask?

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 01-08-2025 16:17
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Alternate Solution https://rossvideo.community/discussion/bw-images-as-a-mask-solution?ReturnUrl=%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-home%2fdigestviewer%3fcommunitykey%3d91812bfd-9393-4a3f-8a74-7f8035df130e ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------

XPression Version 12.0 officially released!

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 12-23-2024 10:36
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Does it support "undo"? ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------

RE: Applying 1920 x 1080 video to text.

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 12-11-2024 10:13
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Try this. Instead of a B&W image use text. Or just use text as a mask which would be less complex than this link: https://rossvideo.community/discussion/bw-images-as-a-mask-solution?ReturnUrl=%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-home%2fdigestviewer%3fcommunitykey%3d91812bfd-9393-4a3f-8a74-7f8035df130e ...

RE: How To Suppress Error

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 12-06-2024 09:25
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OMG. I looked at the SDK over and over and didn't see it. Now that you've pointed it out ... it's right there screaming at me. Thank you! ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------

How To Suppress Error

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 12-05-2024 16:25
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Using Xpression version 9.5 I like to make utility functions when some task needs to be done again and again. In this case I am enabling/disabling tracks in scene directors. However, when I try to access a track that doesn't exist, xpDbgMon.exe throws an alert box/notification. This is ...

RE: Stats Workflow

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 12-04-2024 09:44
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From what I've read in the forums, this may be version specific. I believe you need the recent version of Xpression/Project server to do Google sheets. Otherwise you need to use excel. Can someone confirm if I am right or wrong? ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ...

RE: Prespective Camera

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-19-2024 11:47
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We have Vinten cameras using the free-d protocol. Just want to confirm, that's not supported, correct? ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------

RE: Change font based on Textobject

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-18-2024 11:21
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I haven't done this, so I'm spitballing. Looking at the SDK, Dim txtObj as xpTextObject Scene.getObjectByName("MyTextObject",txtObj) txtObj.TextWithTags("(theFont)" & txtObj.Text) There is also "TextWithTags" in Visual Logic. ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of ...

RE: Scripting Help

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 10-02-2024 13:53
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L0 and L1 need to be L0mat and L1mat on their last lines. Otherwise, I don't see anything wrong, but this is a hazy area of scope between xpEngine, xpScene, and xpProject, and where the final execution is. Sequencer syntax operates differently from MOS/iNews/production box sometimes. Here are ...

RE: Always face the camera

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 10-01-2024 11:42
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As far as I know, you are going to have to go into VB. Also, if the quad and/or camera is in a hierarchy, you are going to have to calculate the positions, not just taking X,Y,Z positions. UPDATE : Just looked at the API documentation and there is a GetParent method. This means you could ...