Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.   Hello everyone, My name is Matthew Loreto and i was raised in fireworks! I love everything about fireworks but my favorite is designing and watching a show come to life right in front of your eyes!! It is truly amazing how far along finale has come from when I started playing on the trial version back in 2014-2015

  DrewFinale wrote: Hi nicola fici, the set piece and moving wheel effects are made possible using a “macro”. A macro allows effects to be animated and have a distance offset from the position. The downside is that macros will not show a ‘Used’ quantity. You’re not doing anything wrong; this is just a limitation of the macro functionality. When you use a macro, the price is being added to your show, but you will need to keep track of the quantity manually to make sure you don’t exceed the available quantity. thanks drew, you were very clear.  

Welcome to the Finale 3D forum!   You can view the complete list of supplier catalos and add them to your Finale 3D account by going to ‘My Account > Supplier Catalog Settings‘. We don’t have catalogs for the brands you mentioned yet, but many of the catalogs contain cakes that you can learn from use as a starting point to make your own cakes. The Finale 3D Help Center is another great resource. For example, the Help Center Video Gallery has a section of videos on Creating and Editing Effects. There you will find several videos demonstrating how to make cakes.       P.S. Don’t forget to head over to your My Profile and customize your Display Name and Profile Picture!

Hi nicola fici, the set piece and moving wheel effects are made possible using a “macro”. A macro allows effects to be animated and have a distance offset from the position. The downside is that macros will not show a ‘Used’ quantity. You’re not doing anything wrong; this is just a limitation of the macro functionality. When you use a macro, the price is being added to your show, but you will need to keep track of the quantity manually to make sure you don’t exceed the available quantity.

hi DrewFinale ,I managed to understand why they didn’t work, the only thing is that you don’t see the quantities used.

thank you for that clear answer ! Understanding the huge development it requires and the raytracing market position. I hope one day we could play pyro with raytracing and see as it truly is : the most powerful and sensitive way to light up an environment.   thanks again for the complete answer !

Hello, Finale3D does not make use of any special raytracing features, and probably will not use them soon.  If we did, we would have to make a separate code path just for raytracing GPUs, and since most GPUs do not support raytracing, this would mean that most of our users would not benefit from the development.   So, we don’t use the special raytracing features of these new cards.  If you are planning on running only Finale3D, then I would not spend extra money on getting a GPU with raytracing features.   However, the raytracing GPUs are of course very good “normal” GPUs as well.  And Finale3D will use the “normal” GPU functionality.   TL;DR:  Treat Finale3D like a non-raytracing game when you’re choosing a GPU to buy.  

Hello there,   If you permit it I have a question about supplier catalog. Is there a way to find catalogs of products like VOLTS, TROPICS or otherelse somewhere ?   For example I would like to use this effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJMfSKrHAQA (The Goat Vuurwerktotaal) but I do not really know how to program it with VDL.   Thank you by advance, Best regards 😀

Hi, I would like to know if Finale 3D already use raytracing ? Is it planed in a near futur ?   As I would by a new computer, I would like to know how revelant will be to chip it with a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti card. What do you think about it ?   Thanks for advices you can provide.

Hi nicola fici, you should be able to select a position, click on the wheel effect, and the wheel should be added to your show. If it’s not working for you, please reply with a screenshot or photo of the problem.