CHAPTER 7

Graphic Functions: Defining Content

Content Selection Parameters

The following sections outline parameters you will use to create an image from content and define it’s playback. You will set the parameters described in this chapter for each individual Graphic Object you define.

Note: The suggested default DMX values given for each parameter are recommended to build libraries that provide the easiest and most reliable content selection, rendering and output. They are the default values built into the Wholehog libraries for High End Systems consoles.

Object

The Object parameter selects the 3-dimensional object component of an image. Object files are the 3-D object shapes used to build a total image. The graphics engine supports a combined total of 255 stock and user-created object files.

Stock Objects have a fixed DMX value and cannot be edited. DMX values 1-149 are reserved for identifying stock object files. User-created object files must be assigned a unique DMX value from 150-255.

For a reference of 3-D object files available as stock content with your media server and infor- mation on how to create your own object files, go to the link for the Stock Object Guide for the DL.3, DL.2 and Axon products on http://www.highend.com/support/digital_lighting/.

Default DMX Value: 1 = full screen flat surface

TIP: You can select the same object file for images that will be interacting with each other. If both objects occupy exactly the same area in 3-D space, “Z-fighting” (a shimmering effect) on some portions of the composite image can occur as the graphics engine tries to determine which object should be in the foreground.

You can avoid this effect by making a slight adjustment to one of the object’s scale or moving it forward or back (using the Z Position parameter) in respect to the other.

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AXON specifications

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