Hi PyroBunny,   1) If you update to the latest beta release of Finale 3D, you will get a salute/report sound with this VDL: 1″ Rising Silver Whistles To Titanium Salute. The downside with the latest beta is that the whistle sound is broken that end with any kind of bursting effect (salute, peony, etc).   2) The flight path of whistles is improved in the latest beta release.

I’m trying to create this effect:     30mm 40.0m 25 Shot Bright Comet w/ Whistles To Titanium Salute Cake (5 Rows)   Problem #1 – there is no salute with the whistles, despite the fact VDL outputs shows it.   Problem #2 – unable to control direction of the shots. They go off wildly to the extreme sides, it seems impossible to convince them to go up.

I would like to know if anyone else is having issues with the textures of the models, especially image textures. When I insert a model that has textures, the textures are changing to other images, despite looking correctly in SketchUp 2018 version. Can anyone help me?

Raccoon – RA57201 – Uncle Sam – 1.4g – 2.5″ – NOAB – cake – 2/1   Product page: https://www.racoonfireworks.com/RA57201-Uncle-Sam-500-Gram-Super-Large-Finale-Cake-pd6226124.html Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1HeSPG8S2A   2.5″ 72.9m 9 Shot (a) Glittering Willow w/ Glittering Willow Cake, 8 Rows, Rows 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 (a), Row 8 (0.2/aaa/STT)

Pyroland – GFYS1776 – Neon Airburst – 1.4pro – 500g – 60 shot – cake – 2/1   Product page: Unknown Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUwH-2S8ycI   2″ 29.5m 30.19s 1.69 PFT 60 Shot Cake (a) Red Strobing Comet To Salute + (b) White Strobing Comet To Salute + (c) Blue Strobing Comet To Salute, 9 Rows, Row 1 (abcabc/FNR/4.0), Row 2 (0.0/abcabc/FNL/4.0), Row 3 (0.0/abcabc/FNR/4.0), Row 4 (0.0/abcabc/FNL/4.0), Row 5 (0.0/abcabc/FNL/4.0), Row 6 (0.0/abcabc/FNL/4.0), Row 7 (0.0/abcabc/FNL/0.5), Row 8 (1.5/abcabc/FNR/0.5), Row 9 (1.5/abcabc/FNL/0.5)

Epic – EP1825 – Ghost Revolution – 1.4g – 2.5″ – NOAB – cake – 2/1   Product page: https://fireworksforever.com/products/GhostRevolution Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShE9C-JCqSQ   2.5″ 30.00s 9 Shot (a) Red To White To Blue To Red Ghost Shell Cake, 9 Rows, Rows 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 (a), Row 9 (0.1/a/STT)  

Closer…   3″ 194.0m 3.02 PFT Red Strobing Comet To Short Peony To Short Popcorn Crackle

Thanks for the suggestions.  I’ll keep an eye out.   I exported the script window to Excel, then cross referenced it with my Cobra script and it looks like nothing else was missing.   I’ll keep an eye on types (don’t think it was DMX, since I’m not using any of that in this show) and be sure to save a copy of the broken file for troubleshooting if it happens again.   – Brad

This is a small thing, but I always end up with all these half or 3/4 sheets of labels, which on a small label like the Avery xx67 (80/sheet) is a lot of waste! It would be cool if the label report let me give a start #, so if I gave it “11” on a 4-column x 20-row label sheet, it would start halfway down the 1st row, and not try to print anything on the first 10 label spots (that I presumably already used in a previous run).

Thanks Drew, I was doing that with the saving but wasn’t getting a good result. Turns out the column width in the script window had to be a lot larger than what seemed to be right, it’s not 1 to 1 which is fine it just throws you off a bit that’s all. Attached the photos showing how large I had to make the script columns to get the result I did in PDF in case others have questions about it later.