We have added three new very useful software controls to our stereolize Shop.

  [V] pdf Control

Enables you to display Adobe Acrobat  on another device in your network and control it via Ventuz. You can also capture your PDF file from the monitor via Video Capture Card and Ventuz Live Video Node.

[V] Keynote Control

With [V] Keynote Control for Ventuz you can control Keynote on your Mac. You must use a capture card when using “Live Video” input. This program will be controlled directly from Ventuz. Therefore, Ventuz and the program must be in the same network.
This function is only for Ventuz Professional and Ventuz PLE. It will not run on Ventuz Express.

  [V] VLC Video Control

With [V] VLC-Video Control for Ventuz you can open all Videos which are supported by VLC-Player. You can play Video on another device in your Network and control it by Ventuz. You can also use virtual capturing and show your own screen.
This program will be controlled directly from Ventuz. Therefore, Ventuz and the program must be in the same network.
This function is only for Ventuz Professional and Ventuz PLE. It will not run on Ventuz Express.

Go ahead and check them out! If you like it – buy it

New Tool – Ventuz 3 Performance Control Center

 
With the [v] Stats Tool you can see Ventuz performance statistics of all your Ventuz Machines without opening ‘Ventuz Statistics’ in the Ventuz Designer. All Ventuz Machines that are in your network will be scanned for scenename, framerate, system and graphic memory, video -, content -, hierarchy and render performance.
[V] Stats runs on Windows and needs .NET Framework 4 to be installed.

This function is only for Ventuz 3 Professional and Ventuz 3 PLE. It will not run on Ventuz Express. Machines using the older versions of Ventuz will be tracked but cannot be used for detail information.

And that´s not all – we have another goody that we prepared for you:

[V] Powerpoint Control

Sometimes Powerpoint had to be played at an external computer and the screen had to be captured in Ventuz. For better control over Powerpoint, this program was developed. With ‘Powerpoint Control for Ventuz’ you have the possibility to control Powerpoint with Ventuz. You can navigate through Powerpoint from our Ventuz Node and you can also navigate between slides and control with subclicks.
[V] Powerpoint Control runs on Windows and consists of a Ventuznode as .vza and the tool as .exe file. PowerPoint has to be installed. This function is for Ventuz Professional and Ventuz PLE (Version 2008 and newer). It will not run on Ventuz Express.

In addition we are proud that we have added new icons and objects and have now over 250 of these items in the shop.

Check them out

We have recently added a new category in the Ventuz Assets Shop. Under “VENTUZ SZENES” you can now find the coolest interactive equalizers and other VJ stuff. All ready-to-use scenes that grab your beats with the FFT-Node and make the equalizers move with your sounds. Functionally and graphically something irresistable. Try it out and have fun playing

To go on the Ventuz Assets Shop, klick here.

Dear Ventuzians and Fans

Besides all the projects we are currently working on we tried to be productive for the rest of the world again and have built a Ventuz OSC App for iPhone, which is already available in the AppStore. The App is free of charge and we think this might be a useful gadget for everyone who works with Ventuz on presentations and exhibitions.

You can also get a tutorial here http://shop.stereolize.com/software/software/-v–remote.php that shows the set-ups on your iPhone but also in Ventuz.

We are currently also working on an iPad version and after that version 2.0 which will also be able to receive OSC feedbacks, will have different skin-sets and which will have the ability to load external button-sets. There is also a PC program that enables you to build the set-ups which dan then be transmitted via XML.

Grab it – you guys – and go create amazing stuff!!!

LithUnwrap is a free, easy-to-use, Windows tool for mapping and editing the UV coordinates of low poly 3D models.

LithUnwrap main features:

OpenGL 3D model viewer
Easy to use UV coordinate editor
UV maps get updated in real-time
Assign materials per face to objects
Pan and zoom in UV mapping space
Export UV maps to high resolution bitmaps
Polygonal and rectangle selection tools
Assign diffuse and opacity texture maps to materials
Decal, planar, box, cylindrical, and spherical UV mapping
Distortion free UV maps using detached face mapping
Import/export LWO, OBJ, DXF, 3DS, ASC, COB, and X files
Import many popular game file formats
Import textures in BMP, TGA, JPG, PCX, DDS, TEX, OGF, LIF, MAT and RSB formats
Create plane, box, cone, cylinder, sphere, geosphere, pyramid, prism, tube, torus, and 3D text primitives
Includes a basic set of 3D modelling tools: moving, scaling, rotating, subdividing, aligning, extruding, bevelling, flipping, tapering, twisting, flattening, mirroring, triangulating, and untriangulating
Runs under Win 95/98/ME/2K/XP (OpenGL on NT w/SP4)

Source:http://www.geeks3d.com/20090303/lithunwrap-free-uv-mapper-for-windows/#more-3403

ASUS will release a new graphics card made with two G200-350-B3 GPUs. This GPU is one that is behind the GeForce GTX 285. ASUS new card will be called MARS 295 Limited Edition and will be an official GTX 295 (same device ID):

Each MARS 295 GPU will have access to 2Gb of graphics memory (512-bit GDDR3) giving us a total of 4GB. And here is what happens when a hardcore overclocker (kinc) can touch the ASUS 295: 

Notice the two power supply units…

Source: http://www.geeks3d.com/20090531/mars-295-dual-geforce-gtx-285-with-4gb-of-graphics-memory/

Here is the official summary on the exact meanings of the Ventuz statistics.

F = Framerate

G = Generation – Time of the value generators. These are movers, interpolating-elements, scroll-text and all the nodes generating new values for each frame.

B = Bindings – Connections and the validations resulting from value changes. This also includes generating resources, if necessary.

A = Stands for Abs-tree-validation. This is kind of a insider. The Abs-tree is the absolute hirachy-tree. That means not the one you see in Ventuz – but the one Ventuz really calculates. Including the setting of the matrixes in the axis and the other DirectX-states (materials,textures,…). For example: lots of spreaders will make this value rise.

V = Video  – and live-video decoding (and their transfers).

R = Rendering – the time Ventuz needs for its rendering process.

Thanks to Karol.

After a few months Realtime Mania is online again. Christan Schmidt former Ventuz product-manager and Ventuz guru decided to bring his blog back to life. We took the vote and think this is great.

http://realtimemania.spaces.live.com/default.aspx

Besides his english is a lot better than mine and maybe he’ll give us the honour to welcome him as author on our blog.

This should be released in the category: "Things we always wanted to have inside Ventuz – and which already exist  – but nobody told us:" As we don’t have this category (yet ) it probably belongs to "needfull things."

It’s not always possible to estimate the exact performance of a scene inside the Ventuz Designer. Inside the Presenter it would work, but the framerate is not displayed there.

Wrong! As I learned yesterday: As a matter of fact there is the possibility to show the framerate/performance in the Presenter.

But it only works on the command level:

Open the cmd shell then change to the Ventuz directory and enter: VentuzPresenter.exe Name.vpr -stats or simply create a *.bat text document, which could look like this:

cd C:\Programme\"Ventuz Technology Group"\"Ventuz 2006 Professional Edition"\

VentuzPresenter.exe c:\temp\name.vpr -stats

Then save as Start.bat on the desktop and that’s it.

Besides the "- stats" function there is another useful option inside the Presenter "-noesc". It blocks the Esc-key. Therefore a Ventuz presentation can not be stopped with Esc accidentally. To stop a presentation you now have to change into window-mode(Alt+Enter) and close the program. If this window function was disabled while exporting the presentation, the only way left is to use the task-manager…

Thanks to Karol from the Ventuz dev crew.

The idea behind it is very simple. When using 2 computers, from which each one is outputting a resolution of 2 x 3072 by 768 in horizontal span mode and split by two analog versions of the Matrox TripleHead2Go into 6 signals showing one continuous picture you will run into the problem of switching between them. The initial idea was to switch directly after the computers, which would have left us with only two signal ways for master and backup solution. Unfortunately we couldn’t find a KVM-switch processing the necessary resolution. The best solution in terms of performance would have been to take 6 Folsom HD ImagePRO and get them remote controlled by a small Encore system or something in that line. But the lack of availability and budget forced us to come up with a new and cheaper idea. So we kept the thought of remote controlled switches. After some research we found the Pocket KVM Switch SW0206C from Equip. This model has a spring-loaded switch that lets you toggle between PC 1 and PC 2. When turning it on it will reset to the default input PC 1. That was exactly what we needed. To make a long story short, all we needed from there was a sure hand, a soldering set, some cable, a new spring-loaded switch, some heat shrink tubes and a power supply. We bought 6 SW0206C opened them and removed the original switch. On each of the KVMs we put a green cable on (+) and a red cable on (-). Then combined all red and green cables and led them into our new spring-loaded switch. And here are some pictures:

Everything worked extremely well. The result was amazing. There was just one little issue. How do you get a little white box with many green and red cables sticking out and that looks like a bomb through the security check of the world’s supposedly best secured airport? That’s very simple. You don’t, at least not without getting asked a great deal of questions. Well, after we finished building it everybody thought it looked like a bomb and I should carry it in my hand luggage to be at least able to explain what it is or show its functionality. We agreed on that because we thought that if there was no one to explain they would just detonate it without the risk of even opening it. Everything came as we had expected. Of course we got pulled out and yes we had to open it and show what it was. Someone was with me that translated into Arabic. Maybe it was in his translation, but one of the Ladies in the room took her hand and tried to grab into the box and pull one of the KVMs out. I was moderately nervous and didn’t want her to destroy our master/backup switch, so I shouted “Stop!-Don’t”! That again must have scared the crap out of them because everybody jumped back and took on a protective pose. So in case you ever end up in a situation like this. Do not shout or even make unpredicted moves with a box in your hands when you are standing on an airport for security questions. Try to remember not to shout. This is very important. Very important!