V9 - TimH Feedback
Posted: 30 April 2018, 03:45
Hi Support,
I've had a bit of a play around with V9 and can provide some points:
PROS:
- The new Dark UI is GREAT. Looks fantastic!
- Improved performance in 3D view, as well as the new textured objects are fantastic
- Thanks for the addition of the copy/paste function in Sequential List
- Multi-head support is great. Very easy to control, and very easy to create a fixture profile for.
- Lightshow creator is an AMAZING function. That is going to save me (and other users) countless hours upon hours of programming time. Amazing feature!!!
BUGS:
- 3D View is doing some bizarre things with gobos + wash beams making it almost unusable. See screenshot (too large to attach): https://www.dropbox.com/s/bhq8d93uh7wq5 ... w.PNG?dl=0
- When using the "Lightshow Creator purge" function, it deleted the scenes, but not the buttons from live mode. I believe though that this function should also delete the buttons. When I went to purge the show again for a second time to try and delete the buttons, the program crashed.
- When copy/pasting a macro, you can't paste into a blank space, but instead must paste onto another created macro. However, when you paste onto that macro, it creates a new macro for it anyway? It seems a little fiddly. If you're confused I'll upload a video explaining what I mean later.
CONS:
- I would like the ability to be able to resize the columns in the "Generator Fixtures" window in Generator. Sometimes the fixture name is too long, so you can't see it to know what fixture you are working on. Screenshot attached
- Also in "Generator Fixtures", it took me a while to work out that the arrows on the right hand side control the "reorder" fixtures function. It would be maybe handy to label these buttons? However, it was possibly also a side effect of the fact I couldn't see the full name of my fixtures as mentioned above, so all the names looked the same! When I changed the order, I couldn't tell.
- In the "Fixtures Settings" window in 3D view, the new layout is great! Much easier to use/see. However, the tabs for "Position, orientation" etc. are very hard to see when they are selected. The difference in texture between when the tab is selected and not selected is so minor it makes it really hard to see which tab you are in! Is there a way to make that change more noticeable? Screenshot attached.
- I'm not a fan of the new design of the fader/preset sliders on live buttons. I found clicking on them to be quite tricky as you had to be VERY precise to click on it and make it work. Maybe the hitbox could be made larger?
- Still no support for Prism in 3D view. Is there some way this could be implemented easily or no?
- I also wouldn't mind seeing a few extra features that have been requested (more universes, add a fixture to an existing generator project, upgrades to pixels/timeline, etc.), but I understand these would be more long term projects that we probably wouldn't see in Version 9
Specifications for the machine I installed the program on (FYI I did not install this on my regular machine but a spare laptop I had lying around)
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Dell Latitude 5280
Intel Core i3-7100U @ 2.4GHz (4 core)
Windows 10 Education 64 Bit
8GB RAM
Intel HD Graphics 620
I've had a bit of a play around with V9 and can provide some points:
PROS:
- The new Dark UI is GREAT. Looks fantastic!
- Improved performance in 3D view, as well as the new textured objects are fantastic
- Thanks for the addition of the copy/paste function in Sequential List
- Multi-head support is great. Very easy to control, and very easy to create a fixture profile for.
- Lightshow creator is an AMAZING function. That is going to save me (and other users) countless hours upon hours of programming time. Amazing feature!!!
BUGS:
- 3D View is doing some bizarre things with gobos + wash beams making it almost unusable. See screenshot (too large to attach): https://www.dropbox.com/s/bhq8d93uh7wq5 ... w.PNG?dl=0
- When using the "Lightshow Creator purge" function, it deleted the scenes, but not the buttons from live mode. I believe though that this function should also delete the buttons. When I went to purge the show again for a second time to try and delete the buttons, the program crashed.
- When copy/pasting a macro, you can't paste into a blank space, but instead must paste onto another created macro. However, when you paste onto that macro, it creates a new macro for it anyway? It seems a little fiddly. If you're confused I'll upload a video explaining what I mean later.
CONS:
- I would like the ability to be able to resize the columns in the "Generator Fixtures" window in Generator. Sometimes the fixture name is too long, so you can't see it to know what fixture you are working on. Screenshot attached
- Also in "Generator Fixtures", it took me a while to work out that the arrows on the right hand side control the "reorder" fixtures function. It would be maybe handy to label these buttons? However, it was possibly also a side effect of the fact I couldn't see the full name of my fixtures as mentioned above, so all the names looked the same! When I changed the order, I couldn't tell.
- In the "Fixtures Settings" window in 3D view, the new layout is great! Much easier to use/see. However, the tabs for "Position, orientation" etc. are very hard to see when they are selected. The difference in texture between when the tab is selected and not selected is so minor it makes it really hard to see which tab you are in! Is there a way to make that change more noticeable? Screenshot attached.
- I'm not a fan of the new design of the fader/preset sliders on live buttons. I found clicking on them to be quite tricky as you had to be VERY precise to click on it and make it work. Maybe the hitbox could be made larger?
- Still no support for Prism in 3D view. Is there some way this could be implemented easily or no?
- I also wouldn't mind seeing a few extra features that have been requested (more universes, add a fixture to an existing generator project, upgrades to pixels/timeline, etc.), but I understand these would be more long term projects that we probably wouldn't see in Version 9
Specifications for the machine I installed the program on (FYI I did not install this on my regular machine but a spare laptop I had lying around)
[image]
[image]
Dell Latitude 5280
Intel Core i3-7100U @ 2.4GHz (4 core)
Windows 10 Education 64 Bit
8GB RAM
Intel HD Graphics 620
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