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Ventuz 5 Quick Guide

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Ventuz 5 Designer

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Ventuz 5 Node Reference

ANIMATION
  • Mover
  • Alternator
  • Simple Control
  • Timeline Control
  • Keyframe Animation
  • Animation Group
GEOMETRY
  • Rectangle
  • Rounded Rectangle
  • Gradient Rectangle
  • Overlay Rectangle
  • Cube
  • Circle
  • Sphere
  • Cylinder
  • Cone
  • Torus
  • Chart
  • Random Points
  • Mesh Loader
  • Geometry Import (Live)
  • Volume
DATA
  • Database
  • Excel
  • JSON
  • RSS Feed
  • Resource Linker
  • Text File
  • XML
INTERACTION
  • Touch Button
  • Touch Excluder
  • Touch Marker
  • Touch Paint
  • Touch Pattern
  • Touch Proxy
  • Touch Ripples
  • Touch Transformations
  • Web Browser
  • Touch Teleport
  • Touch Simulator
INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O)
  • GPI
  • Joystick
  • Keyboard
  • MIDI
  • Mouse
  • Network
  • Open Sound Control
  • Serial
  • Timecode
LOGIC
  • Array Processing
  • Convert To Text
  • Cluster Synchronization
  • Counter
  • Date Time
  • Directory
  • Dispatcher
  • Enumeration
  • Expressions
  • Invert
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  • Script
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  • System ID
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  • Variables
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COLOR/MATERIAL
  • Alpha
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  • Color to RGBA
  • HSLA to Color
  • RGBA to Color
  • Color Transformer
  • HLSL Shader
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  • Material
LAYER
  • 3D Layers
  • 3D Layer Reference
  • 2D Layers
  • PSD Import Layer
  • Others
RENDER OPTIONS
  • Alpha Blending
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  • Point Options
  • Render Cube Map
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  • Stencil
  • ZTesting
LIGHT
  • Light Sources
TEXT
  • Text Effects
  • Text Layouts
  • Text Rendering
VR/AR
  • Tracked Devices
  • Draw Tracked Devices
WORLD
  • Axis
  • Billboard
  • GetWorld
  • SetWorld
  • Arrange
  • Ticker
  • Layout
  • Group
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TEXTURE
  • Background
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  • Texture
  • SVG Loader
  • Live Video
  • Movie Stream
  • Movie Frame
  • Movie Clip
  • Texture Loader
  • Snapshot
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  • Video Source Selector
  • VIO Input
SOUND
  • Audio Clip
  • Sound
  • Volume Control
  • FFT Audio Analysis
SLIDES
  • Slide Manager
  • Slide
  • Slide Port
  • Pivot

Ventuz 5 Director

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How To

  • How to Run Ventuz
  • How to Work with Designer
  • Ventuz Designer Drag&Drop workflow
  • How to use Head Mounted Displays
  • How to work with Shadows
  • How to use Emoijs
  • How to Build a Template
  • How to use Newtek NDI
  • How to Create Visuals Loader Node
  • How to Remote Control with a Phone
  • How to Setup a Cluster Render
  • How to use a Mixed Frame Rate Cluster
  • How to use Tracking
  • How to work with 3D Reference Layers

Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Summary Shortcuts
  • Layer Editor Shortcuts
  • Hierarchy Editor Shortcuts
  • Content Editor Shortcuts
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  • Director Shortcuts

Advanced and Development

  • Command Line Options
  • Remoting Overview
  • Remoting 4
  • Deprecated Remoting
  • Ventuz IP Ports
  • Ventuz Machine Service
  • Remoting Machine Signature
  • TUIO
  • .NET Scripting
  • HLSL Shader Programming
  • Ventuz API and SDK
  • Ventuz VIO API

General Reference

  • Terminology
  • Manual Index

Miscellaneous

  • Presets
  • PropertyGroups
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Mouse

Windows Mouse Provides absolute pixel coordinates of the cursor if the mouse is in the renderer window.
DirectInput Mouse Provides relative mouse movement information for any mouse activity.

Windows Mouse

The Windows Mouse node is used for querying positional information on where in the renderer window the mouse cursor is. The node provides this information both in pixels and as values between -1 and 1. In addition, there are also various events that are fired when buttons are pressed, the mouse wheel is turned or the cursors leaves the rendering area.

In most situations, the Enter-/LeaveOutput and Enter-/LeaveWin properties will fire at the same time. Depending on the aspect ratio set in the Project Properties, the size of the renderer window and the fullscreen mode (virtual vs. exclusive mode), there can be a difference. If the aspect ratio of the project is different than the aspect ratio of the display and the application goes to virtual fullscreen, the window will be the size of the complete screen but the output area will only be a part of it (in fact a subwindow inside the fullscreen window). In this case, mouse coordinates will only be sent when the cursor is in the output area. In exclusive fullscreen, there is only one fullscreen window and the ratio adaption is done on the graphics cards. There the whole window including the borders will detect mouse movement.

DirectInput Mouse

In contrast to the Windows Mouse, the DirectInput Mouse node is used to measure relative movement. The Relative output properties contain the number of pixels traveled during the last frame the mouse was moved.

The DirectInput Mouse is completely independent of the renderer window. Even if the mouse is moved over the display boundary and the mouse cursor will stop, the correct "speed" of the movement will still be returned.

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