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RE: Pictures not showing on air in graphics

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 12-06-2023 13:29
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Our Studio version is 9.5 build 5008 Same for Designer. Using MOS plugin and BlueBox. I have confirmed that when an image is assigned and doesn't work it has been a JPEG renamed as PNG. Eventually I hope to write a drag & drop script for our producers to use and make sure files have the proper ...

RE: Setting font material without using tags

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-22-2023 15:31
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This is just a matter of programming style, but VB does have a switch/case option called select/case. The difference is it looks like it does not have "fall through". It can be more graceful and easier to read. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/language-reference/statements/sel ...

RE: Setting font material without using tags

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-22-2023 09:23
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You are setting the ColorDiffuse on the fontLayer, not the material. Also, your material is not declared. dim txtStyle as xpTextObject dim fontTitle as xpFont dim fontStyle as xpFontLayerAttrib dim matFont as xpMaterial Self.Project.GetFontByName("FS Title", fontTitle) Self.GetObjectByName("Style", ...

RE: Setting font material without using tags

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-20-2023 12:01
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Instead of using "Engine.GetFontByName" try using "Self.Project.GetFontByName". If that change works, I cannot explain why it does; it just does. It fixed a problem when I was making materials. ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------

RE: Scritping Scene Directors

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-20-2023 10:38
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So you might be coming up against an odd bug in which Engine doesn't always work. I've had this problems with materials and fixed it with "Project". Since use are using the variable name "Scene", which I don't recommend since depending on the script location that is a reserved word, I'll assume the ...

RE: Textbox To Integer Line Object Scripting

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-15-2023 10:35
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You can also try this XCordFinal=CInt(XCordFinalNum.Text) ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------

RE: Change graphic duration from the Xpression sequencer

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-10-2023 15:35
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To my knowledge that is the solution. However, there might be a non-obvious feature. Can't say there isn't. ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------

RE: Change graphic duration from the Xpression sequencer

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-10-2023 10:31
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Just going to shoot off the hip here without trying to do a practical test ... An invisible published text area that determines the seconds/frames. Following 30 frames or 1 frame or a pause event is a script that jumps the scene back and decrements the published text till it hits zero and lets it play ...

RE: Metadata and scripting issue with a sports graphic

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-03-2023 14:20
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Try making a new logic tree that tests against the league text and will make the quad (assuming a quad gets the texture) invisible if it is not a league value. Then it doesn't matter if the quad gets a default texture because it is not displayed. ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ...

RE: Pictures not showing on air in graphics

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-03-2023 11:38
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Reread your post and saw you mentioned "first logo". Sounds like it could be a "preview" or "default" frame problem. Make sure you default scene director is empty. Set your default frame to nothing. Double check your animation controllers and make sure you don't have any unwanted keyframes for an ...

RE: Visual Logic to change a background on full screen

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-02-2023 16:57
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I'd recommend two backgrounds. The blank one and a sports background. Use the compare to make the proper one visible. Regardless of which one is visible, use the first sport field to pick the background. To simplify the input selector, try looking at this: https://rossvideo.community/discuss ...

RE: Visual Logic to change a background on full screen

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-02-2023 15:00
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In the "Strings" section of Visual Logic is a module "String Compare". That's what you need. ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------

RE: Pictures not showing on air in graphics

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 11-02-2023 13:08
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Wrong extension on the image probably. In Designer and the MOS plugin, it seems that the software uses the file header to determine what the file is. An image can go through the whole pipeline and fail because Xpression Studio uses the file extension. Wrong extension, fail at the end. Ross, FIX THIS!! ...

RE: Newsticker(Chyron) and Xpression

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 10-31-2023 09:18
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Awesome! Thank you! ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------

RE: Newsticker(Chyron) and Xpression

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 10-30-2023 15:00
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[% EOC %] works! ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------

RE: Newsticker(Chyron) and Xpression

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 10-30-2023 13:46
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So I found the problem, it was my fault. The above lines were genericized from my code which I read over and over again. One of my commands ended with [% data %]\[% CRLF %] but needs to end as [% data %]\\[% CRLF %] The commands need to end with TWO backslashes and Carriage-Return-Linefeed ...

Newsticker(Chyron) and Xpression

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 10-30-2023 12:09
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Is there any documentation out there explaining how to write commands from Newsticker/LOGIC to Xpression? I am using a script that works for an old scene and customized it to work with a new scene. The commands being sent do not match up with RossTalk documentation. Right now the main problem I am ...

RE: Simulating a dice roll

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 10-27-2023 15:43
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First, just use a search engine to get the model. Try this for the search string: "free dodecahedron 3D model" Next, once in Xpression, you can hover text fields over the faces. Now you have our dice. Make several scene directors giving different roll animations. Use VB and create an "on prepare" ...

RE: scripting animationcontroller

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 10-19-2023 11:18
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That's a neat trick! ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------

RE: Hide Background from Specific Cameras

Posted By Azathoth Son of Cthulhu 10-12-2023 11:44
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Thanks. I was afraid that was the case. ------------------------------ Azathoth Son of Cthulhu ------------------------------