R5 Soft-Bug report. Win7/Win10

[cosmowe]

Hi Resolumes,
here are some finds.

R5.0 / Win7



1. Save Name

- Open an existing composition
- Watch in the upper left where the comp name and resolution is shown.
- Composition > Save As..
- Type "MILF" in the "Name" field.
- Don't press "Save" just close the -save as- window with the [X]
- Watch to the upper left again...there is a MILF!
- Restart Resolume again... the MILF is gone.



2. Column delete jump'n run

- Create a comp with 2 layers and place 40 clips in each layer but a minimum of 41 columns
- Scroll to the empty column 41 and delete it via right click "remove" on the columnfield.
- Your clipdeck scrollbar stays in position.
- Now playback any clip in column 40.
- Delete column 40 via right click "remove" on the columnfield.
- The scollbar jumps back to column 1 instead of staying in position and C1 L1 is highlighted
It's a bit annoying when you clean up your decks.



3. Output 42

Hitting on "Output" in Resolume it shows me under -windowed- and -fullscreen- my outputs which are plugged to a playback device. In my case it shows me Output 13 & Output 14.
Where do these numbers come from?
Shouldn't they named the same way windows gave them their ID's...1 & 2?
This way I have a chance to identify them better before I click on Fullscreen > Display.
And btw...whats the reason for deleting the resolution behind the displays? It was very convenient.



4. Advanced output focus

Mentioned before I guess.
- Open the advanced output.
- Open the PDF with the pixel-mapping from the LED company.
- Close or minimize the advanced output to read the PDF because there is no way to bring it to front.



5. Windows 10 convenient scaling - not

- Plug a projector into your Win10 system with a native resolution lower than the supported resolution.
(In my case its an Epson projector with natively 1280x720px but it can process 1920x1080px)
- Make sure its set to the max. supported resolution (in my case 1920x1080) and set it to extended mode via the windows display configuration menu.
- Open Resolume with a blank composition
- Open the advanced output
- Click on Screen 1
- Open the Screen 1 device tab and have a look onto the resolution of your extended display.
- In my case its shown up with 1536x864px

If its shown up correctly in your case you are lucky. In the Windows Display configuration menu right above the -orientation- drop down you are able to set Font, App and other element scaling... Win 10 set this automatically for you when you plug in a new projector/display for the first time... especially if its a device with a lower native resolution then the supported one.
If you where lucky and win10 set it to 100% automatically you can force my issue if you set the scaling to 125% ..accept...relogin to Win10 and reopen Resolume 5. Now your resolution should also be displayed wrong.
On my last job with a quite fiddly LED mapping I went crasy since I found the reason for what's going on. I guess the displayed resolution in the Resolume screen device tap is a base value for everything in Resolume which has something to do with scaling.... so everything was scaled wrong after I was plugged into the LED controller.
Setting the Windows "App" scaling to 100% solved my problem.



6. Everything snaps to everything Bug...wish...who knows?!

Youtube TC Link

- Open Resolume R5
- Open the advanced output
- Create two slices each for example 200x200px
- Place them dirty beside each other in the input configuration.
- Go to the output transformation tab and hit "match input shape" for each of them.
- Place them side by side with a big gab between them.
- Select the left slice and catch the outer selection area of the upper right point.
- Try to snap it anywhere to the right slice.
- Nope

Why can only polygons snap? Its very useful for slices too. For example when you are going to map something onto a simple cube. Here you just have to map your first slice proper to the surface and let the rest snap to the first proper slice.
I tried to map something with the polygon tool onto a 45° rotated cube on my table. But no chance...When I place all 4 points of my 4 point polygon on one side of the cube correctly..there's a visible optical distortion along the inner legs of the triangles. Or do I miss here something?



sooo..after a lot of text I really hope it's useful for anybody.

Best wishes
cosmowe

[Joris]

1. Save Name

Milf bug confirmed and ticket made. Thanks for the clear steps.

2. Column delete jump'n run

Ehm. Yeah. You just told Resolume to delete the column containing the active clip, so it tries to find the first available column instead. I'm guessing you want a new empty column to be created and that one selected instead?

3. Output 42

Yes, this is weird and we don't know why that happens either. We ask the system for the names of any available displays and this is what we get. We think we somehow get the names before Windows renames them for it's own display menu. We don't know how to get those names instead.

4. Advanced output focus

Yeah, this sucks. It annoys me to no end as well, because it's also above the Mac cmd-tab window when switching apps. It's the only way to ensure the Advanced Output is above all other outputs though.

5. Windows 10 convenient scaling - not

This has been a known issue since Win 8. I'll update the FAQ to include the advice to keep it to 100% until we can bring out a fix for it.

6. Everything snaps to everything

There is now an insane amount of combinations of elements that could possibly snap to each other. Slices, slice masks, poly slices, fixtures and masks, each with an input selection stage and output transformation stage, and an edit points mode and transform mode. We're bound to have missed a few cases.

I'll start a new thread with missing snapping options. Feel free to add the ones you miss in the comments.

[cosmowe]

Hi Joris, many thanks for your reply.

2. Column delete jump'n run

Ehm. Yeah. You just told Resolume to delete the column containing the active clip, so it tries to find the first available column instead. I'm guessing you want a new empty column to be created and that one selected instead?

No, I just want that the scrollbar focus to stay where it is and not jump to the first position of the deck. This also happens when you delete a column with an active clip in the middle of your deck. Jumping back to the beginning of your deck makes no sense when someone is "working" at a specific deck position I guess?
When an active column is deleted the output should be blank, the scrollbar should stay in position and nothing should be selected. What do you think?
OR....the next available clip close to the deleted position in set to active. But that could be annoying when you are in a live situation.

Best wishes
cosmowe

[Joris]

We always need to have something selected. Even when you delete a clip, that now empty cell in the grid will be selected.

I understand what you mean though, I'll make a ticket to have the previous column selected instead of the first.

[cosmowe]

...nice...thank you!

[Oaktown]

When an active column is deleted the output should be blank, the scrollbar should stay in position and nothing should be selected. What do you think?

+1

OR....the next available clip close to the deleted position in set to active. But that could be annoying when you are in a live situation.

Yes that could be unpredictable and annoying!