Isadora Manual v1.3 - TroikaTronix

• Click on the main body of the actor and drag. The selected actors will follow
the movements of your mouse until you release the mouse button.
Editing Actors
To delete actors:
• Select one or more actors.
• Choose Edit > Clear or press the Delete key. Isadora will delete the selected
actors.
To cut or copy a range of actors:
• Select one or more actors.
• Choose Edit > Cut. Isadora will cut the selected actors, or
• Choose Edit > Copy. Isadora will copy the selected actors.
• Note that when cutting or copying a group of actors, all of the links between
actors in the group will be kept intact. When you paste these actors, the links
that were in place at the time of the cut/copy will be restored.
To paste actors:
• Make sure that the Scene Editor is active by clicking on its background.
• Choose Edit > Paste. Isadora will paste the actors that you cut or copied
previously.
• The newly pasted actors will all be selected, so you can click on any one of
them and drag to move them to a new location.
Making Links Between Actors
For Isadora’s actors to work together, you must define the way in which the data
moves from one actor to another. You do this by making links between the output
of one actor and the input of another.
Property Types
Each property is of one of the following types:
Integer Number, without a decimal points
Float Number, with decimal points
Boolean Number, only 0 or 1 (often displayed as off or on)
Range A pair of integers, specifying a range of values
Text A string of text characters.
Trigger Number, only 0 or 1 represented as a hyphen (–) and an X.
Whenever a new value arrives, the trigger “pulses”.
Video A video stream
Sound An audio stream
Blobl Blob information from an Eyes++ module.
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