Jean-Cyprien

A nice Christmas gift ! Thank you Igor ! And Happy New Year to you and all your team ! Jean-Cyprien

You have the possibilité to choice between "sharper or smoother" (-128 to +128 -100 by default). See on "Properties"

Hi Xaver, I'm sorry, last weeks I wasn't at home, and have not seen your post. About your first remark, about the several times unchanged for copied or slipped views, fortunately it's of no consequences. BUT I agree with you it would be better if the right times were written. Sometimes, such small failures could hide more important one. About your second remark... alas ! If you remember, we have still have a discussion about glued/separated sections, and I think that, if the sections were separated, such awful behaviors will be eliminated. Adding or removing a keypoint is currently a problem with the speed options, glued by default (except Pan - Why ?). At last, Igor has reply the 2nd of March "Please give me more time to think and discuss this question. I'll reply soon. " I hope he'll remember it ! Jean-Cyprien

What I'm suggesting (and I believe that what Xaver is asking for, is the same thing), is not more than the very kind permission (!) to use occasionnaly a mother language (during the elapsed time a friend will answer), without such unkind answer in capital letters : "THIS FORUM IS AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE FORUM PLEASE USE GOOGLE" Some (if not a lot) Google translations are absoluty awfull, specially if technical words are used. First it's difficult to write what we're asking, and the answer is sometimes not understandable too. (I remember of the word mouton, " yoke " in English and translated by "mutton" !! and many other jokes ). Thank you, Jean-Cyprien

WnSoft, a forum speaking English, perhaps. But an English forum ? Who said that ? Igor ?? Really ???

Here is a example with text. As I said, it's not fast nor very simple, but not really too complicated. First you make a view (N°7) with your text, here of 30.000ms, and copy it (if needed, in a frame as in my first exemple) Then, you paste it in every other views (1 2 3 4 5 6) For each view, you modify the time of the first and last keypoint, to have 0 and 30.000 for the view 1 of 5.000ms of duration -5.000 and 25.000 ms for the view 2, because the view 1 is of 5.000 ms. The view 2 is of 7.000ms of duration -12.000 and 18.000 (total duration always 30.000 ms) because view 1 plus 2 durations are of 12.000 ms The view 3 is of 3.000ms of duration. -15.000 and 15.000 (-15.000 because view's 1 2 3 total duration is 15.000ms) etc. Of course, the view N°7 is to delate TextUponSeveralViews.pt.zip

Hi Rob, If you need to actuate the text (to read a lot of thing for example), it's not impossible, but not really simple. See my example there : Jean-Cyprien

Hi Rossi, Despite the very small technical issues reported by Dave, I think for both AV there are a lot of ideas and search for the animation of the pyramids, and that's what I find as the most interesting and most important thing. Bravo !

Hi Dave, This is not exactly an answer of the challenge. It was not accurate enough, and it was made with 32 masks and this was not a good idea for the fluidity, but it was made with the beta 13 of version 6, two years ago ! (31 of July 2009). C60_12.zip And two months later, JPD gave us a more beautiful exemple, he called « Orange peel ». It was made to test the accuracy of PTE with the new possibilities in 3D. He has written « Nota : il y a plusieurs méthodes plus saines pour faire ce solide » (There are several methods to make this solid, which are more sound). Pelure d'orange_D.zip Congratulations for your football, Dave, a lot more accurate than mine. Regards - Jean-Cyprien

Dave, dear Peter, It's always difficult to understand each other, and specially by writting, and more, when it's not in one's mother language. Also, it was not the first time Peter wrote a proposal to improve PTE, and that I answered « It's already possible ! ». So actually, I was afraid of having offended Peter (upset, at least), thus my post. I'm very happy that it's not the case. It was just my apprehension (nothing in your #6 post, Peter ! Rest reassured too, my friend) . Thank you for your understanding. And forgive me my sins mistakes. Best regards, Jean-Cyprien

I would not say that Peter was not right when he wrote it would be easier if the opacity was an inheritable attribute of a parent'frame. Generally I don't like using the masks, which are often big ressources consumers (but they are of great interest), but here we have a solution, not particulary difficult to use. My message was CERTAINLY NOT intended to denigrate the proposal of Peter, but to provide a simple (in my opinion) solution already feasible today. Regards, Jean-Cyprien

Hi Peter, Not a bad idea for the future, certainly, but I think that for the present time, you could easily put your "master controller frame" under a mask, and use the opacity of the container (or of the mask) to control the opacity of all the objects under this frame. Amicalement Jean-Cyprien

Hi Dave « However, I would advocate the use of "custom built" Frames (independent of screen resolution) to simplify the process. For instance, if a frame of 400x400 is used in the construction of a 400x400 cube then the PAN Z values are always 100%. You could also use an 800x800 Frame to construct the 400x400 Cube in which case the PAN Z values would be 50%. » I agree, but not with different sizes of frame. When I want to built some complex object (for example Choupinette, or Christmas present), I use a frame of 200x200 as JPD has recommended. With this size of frame, the values of Pan X and Pan Y AND Pan Z are directly done in pixel. This is a lot easier than to multiply or divide by the height, and the width of the screen to get a percentage. « PAN Z is not necessary in the construction of a cube. » Sure. There are a lot of different possibilities to built a cube without the Pan Z value. « It is only necessary for moving the cube backwards or forwards relative to the viewer. » Yes and No. If you are just using Pan Z to do this, it's the same thing using the Zoom value with the « Common/Perspective correction for Zoom ». If you try also to use different moving speeds (accelerate, slow down, smoth), of course you need Pan Z. Or to do something else in 3D. « Pan Z was not used and was not needed in the construction of the Photo Frame elsewhere in this thread. » Yes, Pan Z is useful but not always necessary. « Going back to the FRAME itself, I am reminded that JPD sometimes used a CALE which was of a fixed height but ONLY ONE PIXEL WIDE. » I know this, but it's no more useful. « He was way ahead of his time!! » Certainly, he had a lot of great ideas, the possibilities to give life to them, and his kindness was a remarkable one. Jean-Cyprien

Y're welcome Peter, always a problem to put the right duration for different people ! Number of decimal places I don't know how much decimal places PTE takes to run the calculation. But if I put 6 decimal places for a number, this number is correctly taken into the file, with 6 decimal places, even after copying the keypoint, or the file (picture or frame)... and even if PTE changes rapidly the number to let see only 2 decimal places. You can see that by copying the file on Excel (for example) Avec toutes mes amitiés, Peter

Hi Peter, I was trying to make rapidly an example of "What is Pan Z value and how to use it", I think if you write a number with 3 decimals, PTE takes them, but if you want to copy the number, only 2 decimals are put. I'll see and return. If my little work could be useful (without too much mistakes, I hope !) PanZ.zip

Hi Sheila, A lot of good ideas ! Congratulation. It's not too difficult to put the rotating point in the (virtual ?) centre of the pyramid. Could you give us more explanation of what you want to do, as you say "this might not even be the right way of approaching it " And also of what you mean by "the rotating point. for all directions" Jean-Cyprien

Hi Igor, Willing to be sure of my request, before putting here the explanations of my problems, I had several times downloaded the software from WnSoft and installed them on different repertories (in Program Files). All the times I had the same behaviour of the different softwares. After your last message I deleted all the softwares beta 9, downloaded again the soft, installed it. Now it works perfectly ! It's still a mystery for me, but I can understand that all the different softwares I had installed were using a common repertory, or some common cache (I'm not familiar with those “things” !) The main important thing is that there is no bug in PTE . Thank you Igor. I'm so sorry for the time you've lost for this wrong problem. Please excuse me. Kind regards Jean-Cyprien

Hi Igor, And please excuse me : it's not just a PTE bug but … ? a crazy text' file ? There is no problem with the beta#8 but with the beta #9 it's not possible to read the text'file in the preview mode nor with the exe file (only in the O&A window and with the mini player). Here is the exe file SorcierB_709A.exe as required. I think you'll be able to see that there is a text'file inside, which is not red. It's not a problem of latin or non-latin symbol. You'll find also the template. If this text'file is re-written – as when a template is created – it's OK : beta#9 is able to read it. If I put the file in an other repertory, it's OK (and yet, the file is not re-written !) If I just change the name of the file (in the initial repertory - the file is no more re-written), or of the repertory, it's OK !! I don't understand it ! It's crazy. I hope you'll receive the "bad" text'file I'm sending now and see if something is to be done (even if it is a "bad" text'file, beta#9 doesn't work as #8). Thanks a lot. Best regards; Jean-Cyprien Album Sorcier_Moret2_615.pt.zip

Hi Igor, Something curious ! Perhaps a problem with a big (? not really ! 1800x4535 pixel) png file (of a old project). The original project was (re)made with the version 6 beta #15 There was no problem up to the last version (#8 still OK - #9 a curious problem). I have re-saved the first views of the original project with the version 7 beta #8 : Sorcier_708A There is no problem with this 7 beta #8 version. If you read this file (Sorcier_708A) with the version #9, the text is visible in the O&A window and with the mini-player. But not in the preview mode and not in an .exe file. Same thing is you (open the Sorcier_708A and) save this project with the version #9 ( > Sorcier_709A) Same "bug" if you want to read this project : no text in preview mode and in an .exe file. What is surprising is that if you create with the version #8 a template with the Sorcier_708A project, the new file saved in the template (Sorcier_708B) is now correctly read with the version#9. Same thing : if you read the Sorcier_708A now with the version #9, the new file created in a template (Sorcier_709B) is afterwards correctly read ! I hope I was clear enough !! Not easy to explain (and understand !) Regards - Jean-Cyprien Sorcier_708.pt.zip

Hi, Mike, I too am not a gambler ! The spinning wheel is indeed a very beautiful object (I've one at home), and its animation is not without interest (like the leg of a cyclist). But most parts are turned wood, which requires numerous « objects » in PTE and is time consuming to do, even with copy / paste . The wheel' animation too, is not easy to do (it is a « hollow » object) even if different solutions could be found. A real very interesting challenge, of course, but requiring a lot of time to treasure the beauty of these objects . And at the moment there is a lot of other interesting things to do (much, much, too much !) : V7 betas to test, and - as it is the spring - a lot a new beautiful flowers in the nature : specially wild orchids… Sorry, Mike (perhaps next winter, before the chimney ? Oh no, just before the screen, I've no chimney !!!) Jean-Cyprien

"But the viewable area for a text object is so very small in the Properties tab." I completely agree ! But is it necessery to add a new object (different of Text)? Or just add, as you say, a large pop up window for writting the text. With zero-opacity you'll have what you want (not really a big work to put the opacity at zero). With 100% opacity, it'll be far easier to use the pup-up window to add a lot of text, for example for the tutorials.

Hi Igor, Well done with the V3, thank you Igor. Now I see my little pictures again . PTE doesn’t freeze if I want to preview the project. The value of –128 is now put for all the children of old projects. And your idea to change the procedure to add a blank slide at the end of the project was a very good one. But I’ve still a problem (very small) to remove the views in the “Timeline” mode. Say, I add several views (in “Slides” or “Timeline” mode” – pictures or blank slides) If I’m in “Slides” mode, I can easily remove a view with the Delete button of the keyboard. If I switch to “Timeline” mode, this Delete button has not the same function. (OK, why not, but it is still active and put some additional time for different slides... difficult to understand – and it was the same with the V6 version). But now, if I want to use shift+delete , there is no action. Nothing occurs if I stay in this “Timeline” mode.. If I switch to “Slides” mode and return immediately to “Timeline” mode (without doing anything else) I am now able to remove a view with shift+delete. Why not directly since the beginning of my work ?

Igor, Yes, very good suggestion. OK, thanks

On your screenshot, the duration of the slide you've added is 1.5 ms, not 4 ms, because you've not move the cursor before creating the new slide. If I want to create 5 slides in a row of 4 secondes each, I have to move 5 times the cursor (that is before to create each new slide). Or change for the "Slides" mode. I find this just curious. If this procedure could be interesting for everyone, I do not see any problem.

Yes, davegee, if you want to put just ONE new blank slide, it's OK. If you want to put a row of several slides, only the first one has a duration of 8 s (depending of the position of the cursor as Xaver has said, and depending of the "Transition effect" duration). On the contrary, in "Slides" mode, all the slides will have a duration of 8s (I repeat, it's not a problem for me) Thank davegee