Drone Integration Problem

[Pyro_1440000]

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Im working on and integrated drone / pyro  show , the drone component via the viz file imports fine and runs great , but after i save the finale file and come back to it later the drones stay on the ground … seems like the colors are all active but the movement is gone … any one any ideas ?

[DrewFinale]

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Hi Pyro_1440000, welcome to the Finale 3D forum and thanks for posting. Please send your VVIZ file and Finale 3D show FIN file to support@finale3d.com. We will try to reproduce the issue using the files you send. If we can reproduce the problem, there’s a very good chance we can fix it.

[DrewFinale]

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The reason drones remain on the ground after reopening your show turns out to be a technical limitation, not really a bug. When you import a drone show, each drone is added as a position in the Positions window. The movement for each drone is stored in the ‘Motion Data’ column of the Positions window. This column has a data size limit of 10K. The motion data for each of the drones in your show is over 10K. This is what’s causing the movement to be lost when you close and reopen your show.

 

The reason your drones initially look good when you import the VVIZ file is because the Motion Data field size limitation doesn’t kick in until you save your show as a FIN file. In other words, the VVIZ file is successfully imported, but the motion data is too large to be saved as a FIN file. To work around the limitation, you’ll either need to reduce the size of your VVIZ file, or you’ll need to re-import you VVIZ file each time you open your Finale 3D show file. To learn about how to reduce the size of your VVIZ file, check out Figure 4 and the references to ‘Quality’ in the Importing drone shows documentation.

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