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RE: RossTalk Event clip in a Scene Director not working

Posted By Shane Finley 05-26-2026 12:25
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Boom!. Thanks, Red. sf ------------------------------ Shane Finley Dallas - Fort Worth Area United States ------------------------------

RE: RossTalk Event clip in a Scene Director not working

Posted By Shane Finley 05-26-2026 11:47
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Thanks, Simon. Can you elaborate on "outgoing as well as in coming" please? I'm not following you. sf ------------------------------ Shane Finley Dallas - Fort Worth Area United States ------------------------------

RossTalk Event clip in a Scene Director not working

Posted By Shane Finley 05-26-2026 11:31
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This Rosstalk event in my scene director timeline will not fire the take item in my sequencer. Anyone know what I'm missing here? I have my RossTalk/Smart GPI setup correctly in the hardware panel. GPI and RossTalk are working fine in other parts of my project. ------------------------------ Shane ...

RE: How to use DashBoard parameter to change a Datalinq Key value on several Sequencer Take Items?

Posted By Shane Finley 04-23-2026 13:29
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Thanks, Malcolm and Simon. I think I have this going now. I saw a post from Malcolm a while back that showed the xpDatalinqKey setup by starting with using "xpDatalinqKeys", followed by accessing that list to identify the one Key I'm trying to get a hold of. I'm assuming you have to first create an array ...

How to use DashBoard parameter to change a Datalinq Key value on several Sequencer Take Items?

Posted By Shane Finley 04-21-2026 01:32
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I have about 5 Sequencer items that are player bios and a few stat notes for the current batter. When a player is up to bat, currently I have to enter their jersey number (the DataLinq Key) multiple times to prepare each of the 5 possible gfx that the director may want for each batter. I'm trying to ...

Windows OS beyond Win 10 for Tria

Posted By Shane Finley 12-02-2025 13:00
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Hello, All. Our IT department has mandated upgrades to Windows 11. Our Tria server runs on Windows 10. My research has led me to believe there is no upgrade path, and that Tria will not run on Windows 11. Does anyone have any information contrary to this? Is my Tria server just a boat anchor now? Thank ...

Mathmatic expressions in a DataLinq field - Is this possible

Posted By Shane Finley 10-16-2023 11:01
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Wondering if I can do this: %relid% + 1 in a datalinq field? I tried it like you see it here, but it didn't work. I'm wondering if there is a certain formatting to make this possible? Like (%relid% + 1) or (%relid% + 1), etc. Thank you. Shane ------------------------------ Shane Finley ...

RE: Script Error - Expression expected

Posted By Shane Finley 09-14-2023 16:31
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nevermind...too many "=" signs... ------------------------------ Shane Finley ------------------------------

Script Error - Expression expected

Posted By Shane Finley 09-14-2023 15:39
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getting "Expression expected" error on the top line here: if color.Text == "blue" then name.CurrentFont = teamBlue end if What am I missing? ------------------------------ Shane Finley ------------------------------

XPression Interface Issues - Drop-down Menus appearing in strange places

Posted By Shane Finley 02-28-2021 22:14
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I have an issue where many/most of the drop-down-type menus in XPression do not show up at the point of my mouse clicks. When my interface is full screen (as it always is when I'm working in XPression), many menus are not visible when I click on them. I have to scale down the application window to see ...

Stream Deck / Companion to control Trackless Studio

Posted By Shane Finley 09-21-2020 14:43
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Looking for a way to use custom RossTalk commands using Bitfocus Companion, to control Trackless Studio Events. Using the RossTalk device instance mapped to the correct port, I get all the typical Ross commands, but I cannot find a way to just send a simple RossTalk command, not designating a framebuffer ...

RE: Pie chart question

Posted By Shane Finley 07-23-2020 22:30
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I'm assuming this will animate and be tied to DataLinq data? #XPression

3D object not accepting light

Posted By Shane Finley 07-22-2020 23:43
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I have a 3D object (simple cube for testing material bake from C4D) in my scene, with an image quad behind it. I added a spotlight, and can see the effect of the light on the background image, but not on the 3D box in front of it. Any ideas why an object will not accept light? The light is on in the ...

RE: How to "scroll" some text within a larger scene

Posted By Shane Finley 07-21-2020 05:38
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If you build a crawl group in one scene, you can create a material with a shader called "Render View" and then select the crawl scene as the source of that shader. then in your "master" scene, add a quad and assign the Render View material to it. Rotate to whatever angle you need and you can align it ...

RE: Centering group horizontally

Posted By Shane Finley 07-20-2020 23:45
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I will try to make an example in VL and post it here. But, thinking out loud: Put your text object as a child of the blue bar. Make that text center-justified. In VL, get the width of the text bounding box, then divide by two to get half the width of the text box. Set the X Pos of the text box to ...

RE: Adjust Position and Scale Data from a different layer?

Posted By Shane Finley 07-20-2020 23:23
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Try to set the XYZ coordinates of a freshly created group BEFORE you put any items into it. Hopefully this will keep your gfx from jumping all over after putting them into a group. Set the pivot point as you would prefer (scale up from center, keep the left side locked down and scale over to the ...

RE: FBX texture mappings

Posted By Shane Finley 07-20-2020 23:09
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Hello Sudhanthiran, My understanding, and experience, has been that there is not a 1:1 import function for all the various channels that a material may have. What I usually do is flatten all channels of a material/texture (diffuse, bump, reflection/specularity, etc.) by baking the texture into a ...

RE: Centering group horizontally

Posted By Shane Finley 07-20-2020 23:01
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Juan, Have you used Visual Logic? Are you familiar with that feature of XPression? Shane #XPression

RE: PGM B Not Enabled

Posted By Shane Finley 06-29-2020 15:23
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Yessir! Had that happen to me before a show. About lost my s**t! #Acuity

RE: PGM B Not Enabled

Posted By Shane Finley 06-29-2020 15:02
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In Program Assignment, is Program B set to “Bkgd/Pst” or “U1/U2”? #Acuity