Thanks for the heads up on these effects. I fixed up all the cakes you mentioned, go ahead and give them another try.   The root cause of the issue is a longstanding deficiency in VDL that we recently fixed. The deficiency was that the VDL term “Go Getter” was being translated to “Scattering”. In other words, in older releases of Finale 3D, anytime you typed “Go Getter”, it was being replaced with “Scattering”. This was no good because Go Getters and Scattering stars are not the same effect. Now that Go-Getters and Scattering are being treated as different effects, all I had to do to fix the cakes was replace “Scattering” with “Go Getter” in each cake’s VDL.

Hi Pyro_67840000, you can add your flame machine to Finale 3D and create effects for it by following the instructions in the Help Center documentation article titled Creating DMX fixtures and effects.

Hi Moises Luis Exposito, it’s possible there is a bug. To know for sure, we’ll need to reproduce the issue. We are happy to investigate if you can send a show (FIN) file along with step-by-step instructions on how we can reproduce the issue to support@finale3d.com.

Hi, when i copy and paste of diferents proyects sometimes i have this problem when break a group. The software makes a randoms groups with diferents effects that it´s was in diferents times.  

Hi it is possible added this fire machine? Hi, yes is it this flame https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32701287069.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.1.469311cepzxX63&algo_pvid=bf7df4ab-0869-4d84-b015-81da7bb29e73&algo_exp_id=bf7df4ab-0869-4d84-b015-81da7bb29e73-0&pdp_npi=3%40dis%21CZK%218504.99%218504.99%21%21%21%21%21%402145280e16874681696755289d0749%2160673335701%21sea%21CZ%210&curPageLogUid=EuFwgDmYVX6x   2 chanels:   1Chanel is safety value between 102 and 153   Thank you.

You can see the error in the Spirit of 76 effects from the PyroJam competition catalog. Effect GM486Am, GM486B, GM490A, GM491A This also impacted the Wizard Go-getter cakes.  

Not to worry, your VDL hasn’t changed, it’s the way your VDL is being interpreted (i.e., parsed) by Finale 3D that has changed. There is a known bug with falling leaves in cakes. The bug was introduced in the June 20th beta release, and should be fixed in the next beta release. We’re not aware of bugs with other effects, but it’s possible given all the recent work in this area. To help us fix the effects, please send a show file with one of each broken effect on the timeline to support@finale3d.com. After you send the show file, you can get your effects working again just by rolling back to the release you were running before your updated.     Dustin Leary

I have updated to the most recent version, actually the last 3 versions, and a significant number of my created effects are messed up. This is especially true of swimming stars (go getters), falling leaves, zippered comets, and crossettes. Is there a way to get my old VDL back?

So I can 100% confirm from this year’s show that king dragon is random, despite the labels. The effects DO NOT match the labels, at all.   Joel Robinson has the exact same problem.  

Thanks for the info and work-around.  Was hoping I could “cheat” definitions for 36M and 72M as custom options so I could assign them to positions and have a more automatic way of documenting in reports and labels for the new crew help that has no concept of “it’s just X number of 18M in one box”  Not the end of the world but would be nice in a future release if possible   J