Any Parent-Child relationships with Quads?
  • xrchitect
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    Any Parent-Child relationships with Quads?

    by xrchitect » Thu Feb 06, 2025 3:47 am

    Often, our installation becomes slowly misaligned due to various factors like projector bulb replacement, air filter replacement, HDMI cable issues. When we have 10-30 quads per projector (x 10 projectors stitched together), this becomes impossible to quickly fix the alignment inside Madmapper.

    The only "fix" I know of, is to use the UV checkerboard, and try to physically move the projector back into alignment as close as possible - ie eyeball it. If it gets really bad, I place another animation or object to cover up the poorly misaligned meshwarping

    The real fix takes hours to a full day, to rebuild all the overlapping quads & mesh warping again with the UV checkerboard, then recreate the groups to create the various scenes across all the projectors, it's easily a days worth of work - when the projector needs to be live nearly every day this is not an easy thing to schedule.

    It would be nice to have a set of "Master" quads (locked), and their children "quads" clone all the settings of the master quad. Then if I see misalignment, can jump into the master quads - fix the mesh warping points - easily a 5-minute task. This would magically trickle down to all the children quads in every group.

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