DrewFinale wrote: Hi Engineer Cat, aggressively angled parabolic sequences of comets absolutely are possible. Take a closer look at the table on the competition page and you’ll see that there are no angle restrictions for the row of 19 “Front” positions. The only limitation is that the single shot racks will be placed on the ground, so you should not shoot comets at or below horizontal from the Front positions.         Oh geez, I been pulling up that chart every 10 mins to make sure I’m placing effects in the right positions and complete missed that!  I really appreciate the help.   I gotta say, this is the first time I’m using the software and although it looks complex, the more you play around with it the more things make sense. I’m sure there are shortcuts I’ll learn but the software is absolute fantastic. It’s the Pro Tools for pyros.   I’m guessing the license will expire the day after entries are due? When it does can I just purchase a Lite or Hobby license and when I log in it will only give me the options those versions have or will I need to download the other version?    

Hi Engineer Cat, aggressively angled parabolic sequences of comets absolutely are possible. Take a closer look at the table on the competition page and you’ll see that there are no angle restrictions for the row of 19 “Front” positions. The only limitation is that the single shot racks will be placed on the ground, so you should not shoot comets at or below horizontal from the Front positions.    

  DrewFinale wrote: Hi Engineer Cat, there’s nothing wrong whatsoever. The red highlight in your screenshot indicates that the effect is angled to the right. If the effect were angled to the left, the highlight would be green. In this context, red is not bad, red is just a visual indicator of an angle to the right.   Ah fantastic. I’m suddenly noticing all these red positions and thought I messed something up.   I have another question relating to angles. Are parabolic comet curves not an option being they would have to go beyond the 20 degree limit to achieve them?

Hi Engineer Cat, there’s nothing wrong whatsoever. The red highlight in your screenshot indicates that the effect is angled to the right. If the effect were angled to the left, the highlight would be green. In this context, red is not bad, red is just a visual indicator of an angle to the right.

I’m not sure if I should be posting this in another part of the forum but since I’m working on pyrojam content I figure this is the best place. I noticed this position showing in red and I’m not sure if that means their something wrong with my script, the position or something else,      

Welcome to the Finale 3D forum!   Each time you open a new show, the default show duration is 2 minutes. You can increase the duration by going to ‘Show > set show duration’.

StarryNight   Thank you for pointing out the errors in the catalog.  They have been fixed and should reflect as such when you resync with the network.  We appreciate your participation in the competition and wish you luck.  

Hi StarryNight, welcome to the Finale 3D forum!   When you say groundshells, do mean modifying aerial shells from the catalog so they explode on the ground? If so, sorry that’s not allowed in this year’s competition. It sounds like we might need to fix up a few items. Thanks for the heads up on those, we’ll take care of that right away. Otherwise, the catalog effects need to be used as they are. Making chains, breaking apart chains, and breaking apart cakes also isn’t allowed. We definitely don’t want to discourage creativity; we just have to be mindful of safety and the scale and complexity of the display set up.

This competition is really awesome! I already have some questions:   Is it possible to use shells as groundshells?   I’m also wondering if these effects from the PyroJam Competition Catalogue are in the correct category: 6793: It is a shell, but has subtype “Cake” SD065CK17-TD01: It is a chain, but has subtype “Shell-Ball” WPL30SS-05-R: It is a mine, but has Type “Shell”

show duration was set at 2 minutes, I dont know how that happened