Quick Updates: 10-22-10Prancer Alpha V0.51.3 implements all necessary features to create and export sequences.
A few of the latest features are:
* Allow to add hardware controllers and map the physical channels to the device channels.
* Exporting to vixen now exports the devices and the mapped channel as channels name, so is very easy to setup the hardware (Prancer does not help with anything to work in the frontyard YET).
* Allow to create effects with a graphical user interface, now effect patterns are hidden from the user and the user doesn’t need to know the pseudo language. In a future when the user selects devices Prancer will offer many pre-made effects, it will look smartly what are the selected devices and “guess” what is the user trying to do. For now all effects are “Custom”, which means the user must tell to the user interface what he wants for every cycle and channel transition.
Today I started to create a real sequence that I will use on my show, and basically I can confirm that I made it, this year my show will be Powered by Prancer/Vixen. <pop..
Still is far away from a public Beta but looks promising.
On November 1st I’ll be releasing Alpha 2, and I’ll accept 10 more users requests to be part of the Alpha development/testing, If you want to be part of the process and make a dent on Prancer’s future you are very welcome to apply, you don’t need to know ANYTHING about programming, you just
must be willing to spend time on it, report bugs, provide feedback and share what is on your mind. (I know we are getting close to Christmas and everyone will be super busy, so I won't be expecting a lot for now, but if you apply just make sure you really want to).
I’m uploading the sequence that I started today; I think I’m almost 75% of what I want so I’m getting a good speed. (The recorder I used to capture the screen can't capture too many frames per second so the video skips frames when there is much activity
)
Cas.
