Hello to all ! I'm Cedric from France I work in pyrotechnics since 2016 and with the company ARTIFEUX since 2019. I'm glad to arrive on final3D. See you soon

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I have mortar racks consisting of four angled racks with six mortars each, for a total of 24. I like to fuse them perpendicular to the racks so that each angle takes turns going off. I usually set them off sequentially in a Z pattern with anywhere from a quarter second to five seconds between each mortar canister shot.

Thank you for starting this thread Drew so we have one place to put responses to any questions folks might have.  I think it worked well last year and expect it to do the same this year.   I recently had a question about whether a previous finalist could participate this year.  The answer is "yes by all means".  The goal here is to end up with the strongest shows possible so not only can a previous finalist (or even winner for that matter) submit an entry, no one is limited to a single entry.  There is no limit to the number of entries someone can submit, we just have to have them in by March 4th :-)   Good luck to everyone, we are super excited to see all the great show designs you submit.

Are you having creating the effect? Or trouble adding the shells to your script/timeline/show? Or trouble creating the rack? Or getting your shells to go into the rack? Or something else?   You mentioned fusing, would you like all 24 shells chained together on a single chain fuse? Do you have a picture of the mortar rack you're trying to simulate?

That's strange. It's a very common practice to create a pyromusical soundtrack with gaps between songs. I wouldn't expect doing that to cause a problem. Would you mind sending the soundtrack with the gaps so we can try to reproduce the issue?

I'm trying to simulate a 24 mortar rack, 4 rows of 6 at various angles, to show as if fused to shoot one mortar at a time, working its way back and forth like a zipper cake. I can't get the VDL to show more than one shot total  

I had added gaps between songs while in Audacity. When I deleted the gaps it worked in Finale

  Pyro_112610000 wrote: Is there a way to search the forum by keyword? I feel like some of my questions have probably already been answered but I haven’t found an efficient way to search posts and replies.   Great question! I know it's not super intuitive, but you can search the forums from the Help Center. The search box in the help center simultaneously searches all the Finale 3D documentation, videos and forum posts. In the future, we'll add a forum search box somewhere on the forum pages to make it more intuitive.     Also, I have slice racks from Craig Co. Their other single-shot racks are shown in the Finale catalog but I don’t see anything for slice/sweep racks, even in generic racks. I tried to create one but it didn’t go well. Is it possible to create a 26.5″L x 20.5″ W rack that can be used for slices/sweeps? The sides are open so technically the width doesn’t matter too much. The length is adjustable up to 26.5″ by sliding a tension plate.   Thanks!   Yes, it's absolutely possible. When you tried to create the rack, where did things go wrong? Did you have trouble with the terminology in the dialog when you were trying to configure the rack? Or did the rack not work after you created it? Or something else?