In Uniview 1.5, you can change individual constellation lines and figures. There's also a new property called linesprogress, allowing the lines to be animated, either for the single constellation or for the group of constellations.
The animation is lovely! Someone must have had fun programming that. :^) Is there a command to animate them, or is it only done trough the property slider?
Yes, you can apply a property transition in a command, like this:
andromeda.prop.LinesProgress 0 1
The two values at the end are <target value> <time in seconds>. So in order to turn them on/off you could create buttons that animates them on and off. These transitions work for any property that is a floating point value (colors for the lines aswell, but then the first number becomes 4 - R G B A values betwen 0.0-1.0).
This answer is vauge and incomplete. Where IS this command? I do not see it in the properties in the producer or Uniview. Is this for ALL the constellations? If you are going to answer here instead of individual emails as you used to please be complete enough to actually help your customers. I do not see the linesalpha slider and the figurealpha slider either. Obviously I am missing something, and this is why I have asked for help in the email that I am not getting. Instead I get referred here, and get a one word sentance that does not help me.
Interesting, and might be a software bug, but resolved. "Note to self - and others -do not use an old profile from previous versions."
I started using the default profile, rather than the profile I usually use - WHICH I IMPORTED FROM VERSION 1.4!
For some reason using an old profile affected the program in such a way that did not allow the new options to show up.
NOW I see the options that were definately invisible before. ALL of them. The object tree looks completely different! I see linesprogress, figurealpha, etc.
I will have to recreate my custom events, but that won't take that long.
Sorry I was so cranky in the post above, but I was extremely frustrated, and SCISS was unable to duplicate my problem. John Young
In 1.5 a new module was introduced called "Constellations and Asterisms" introducing linesprogress etc. If using a profile from an earlier version this module needs to be added to the profile.
I'm glad you got it sorted! Note that this support website is still in Beta testing, so it is not meant to replace the support emails just yet!
On topic, you actually did everything right when copying the profile from the old version! I'd guess that some saved setting in the profile made the constellation properties revert to 1.4 behaviour. With you sending the troublesome profile to us, we'll be able to have a look at it!
Until then i think the recommendation is that it's ok to move profiles, but if you get any error message when starting up and can't animate the constellation lines, please try the default module and see you can replicate the bug!
In Uniview 1.5, you can change individual constellation lines and figures. There's also a new property called linesprogress, allowing the lines to be animated, either for the single constellation or for the group of constellations.
Is there a command to animate them, or is it only done trough the property slider?
Yes, you can apply a property transition in a command, like this:
The two values at the end are <target value> <time in seconds>. So in order to turn them on/off you could create buttons that animates them on and off. These transitions work for any property that is a floating point value (colors for the lines aswell, but then the first number becomes 4 - R G B A values betwen 0.0-1.0).On button:
Off button:
This answer is vauge and incomplete.
Where IS this command? I do not see it in the properties in the producer or Uniview. Is this for ALL the constellations? If you are going to answer here instead of individual emails as you used to please be complete enough to actually help your customers. I do not see the linesalpha slider and the figurealpha slider either. Obviously I am missing something, and this is why I have asked for help in the email that I am not getting. Instead I get referred here, and get a one word sentance that does not help me.
John Young
In 1.5 a new module was introduced called "Constellations and Asterisms" introducing linesprogress etc. If using a profile from an earlier version this module needs to be added to the profile.
I'm glad you got it sorted! Note that this support website is still in Beta testing, so it is not meant to replace the support emails just yet!
On topic, you actually did everything right when copying the profile from the old version! I'd guess that some saved setting in the profile made the constellation properties revert to 1.4 behaviour. With you sending the troublesome profile to us, we'll be able to have a look at it!
Until then i think the recommendation is that it's ok to move profiles, but if you get any error message when starting up and can't animate the constellation lines, please try the default module and see you can replicate the bug!