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Another wysiwyg question.

Hello  folks,

Im using EOS offline v1.8 on my PC. I also just downloaded wysiwyg demo version from Cast software. Both work when I use them seperately. But for the life of me I cannot get them to talk to each other.

My question is will EOS offline work with the demo version of wysiwyg? And if so, how do I get EOS offline to talk to wysiwyg? Ive already read many of the posts on this forum about wysiwyg and eos offline but nothing seemed to help me find an answer.

The venue I work for is planning a very ambitious schedule for 2010 so I will need to pre visualise most of my designs. I have never worked with a pre visualiser before so Im looking for a demo version so I can decide what will work best for us. If anyone knows of any other pre visualiser demos that will work with eos offline, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks all.

Don

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    To connect Eos Offline to a visualiser you will need to turn on a suitable network protocol such as ETCNet2 or sACN, and the "Output When Offline" option. All of these are found under the "Settings" button in the shell.

    However, looking at the details given on Cast Software's website, it looks like the Demo version of Wysiwyg R24 may not be able to connect to consoles. (It's listed as 'samples', which is a bit unclear).

    There are now many live pre-visualisation packages available, with varying feature sets, hardware requirements and quality of 'live' and pre-rendered visualisation.

    Some are standalone applications, others are plugins to CAD packages (eg ESP Vision/Spotlight for Vectorworks.)
    - If you already use one of those CAD packages, a plugin for it may be more suitable.

    One standalone application for live pre-visualisation I have found relatively simple to use is Capture Polar from Capture Sweden.
    - The free demo version of this is fully functional except that you can't save your work.



    [edited by: Richard at 5:52 PM (GMT -6) on Sat, Jan 2 2010]
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    Thanks for the reply Richard,

    I installed the Capture Polar software and after a few minutes of noodling around I was able to set up a few mac 500's and connect to EOS offline. The one thing I noticed was when I ran a circle or ballyhoo effect the performance of the visual was rather unimpressive. Slow and choppy. Im using my home PC which is a gaming rig....it's not lightning fast but I can play most current games at high settings. I assumed this would be enough to see two 3d cones rotating around in a circle without too much difficulty. I also noticed the 'flash to full' effect that I read about on another post. I can understand the need for that I guess.

    My question is will connecting the EOS console directly to the PC with the visualiser get rid of the slow performance and 'flash'?

    Thanks again.

  • 0 in reply to DonE

    Yes, connecting the Eos console to the PC over the network will remove the flash and speed up the DMX data rate.

    The actual framerate of the visualisation will of course depend on your specific PC and software.
    You should see (at least approximately) how your PC will cope with the demands of a given 'live' visualiser by moving the camera around using the visualiser's navigation tools, as that is not dependent on the incoming data rate.

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