Hi,   i am Michael from Berlin/Germany. I am still a Hobbyist. Since many years i have  Pyroneo (Skydirector) Hardware. The Programming with their Software is good, but now i want to visualize my shows before, so i use Finale 3d Hobbyist.   Regards Michael  

  Pirotex wrote:   Yes, here’s a simple lesson that anyone can repeat. The main thing, do not be afraid of the montage foam, draw the line calmly, without jerks, you will succeed!   Regards, Pirotex     Thank you for sharing this, absolute genius sir.

I forgot the most important thing, to thank the developers of Final 3D Pro for the opportunity to create realistic models, see how they look at different angles at different distances, to select the color. Thank you!

Thank you. I hope that this method of making the frame, whoever tries it, will like it. Before I realized I needed to use foam, I made frames out of wood, out of metal tape, out of aluminum tubing, on metal mesh, on perforated metal sheets, cut the outline out of plywood, attached the lance to plywood sheets...well, my journey was long. Here is another important psychological point, many people watch the video, and begin to mentally tell themselves that the foam is fragile, it is not reliable, they come up with any excuses to stay with their favorite framework, such as a tree. I can only say one thing for sure - if you once switched to the assembly foam, you will not only get a quality picture, you will never go back to your frame technology. Regards, Pirotex

Thank you, this video is a great tutorial.  Your models have smooth lines of lances perfectly spaced out in the curves.  Your video explains how you do it with foam.  I haven't seen that technique before.  Thank you.

  Pirotex wrote:   Yes, here’s a simple lesson that anyone can repeat. The main thing, do not be afraid of the montage foam, draw the line calmly, without jerks, you will succeed!   Regards, Pirotex     The frame is lightweight and strong enough. The video shows all the steps of making it. To start, you need a picture, a jpeg file with the outline of the model Pirotex. According to this contour (line) you will blow out the foam. You can change the scale of the JPG file at: https://rasterbator.net After scaling you need to remove the blank (without a drawing) pages from the PDF file. Print the PDF file on a printer. And start making the frame. From one can of mounting foam, you can make a line length of 12 to 16 meters ( 39 to 52 ft.) If you have a multimedia projector, you can not print on a printer, but project the image on the ground, and along the line of projection blow out the montage foam. Regards, Pirotex

  Will wrote: The side-by-side example is extraordinarily impressive. Is there a youtube video that shows how a user creates the real world lance work to match the models from Pirotex? Yes, here's a simple lesson that anyone can repeat. The main thing, do not be afraid of the montage foam, draw the line calmly, without jerks, you will succeed! https://youtu.be/DUIEzqpykPc Regards, Pirotex  

The side-by-side example is extraordinarily impressive.  Is there a youtube video that shows how a user creates the real world lance work to match the models from Pirotex?

Hello FOG!  You found a bug, which I've just fixed, but I also have a workaround for you that you may find generally useful.  Are you aware that you can copy/paste from Excel into any of the table windows?  If you want to copy/paste rows, or even a whole show, then your Excel sheet should have a single header row with the column names matching the localized or internal column names of the Finale table window you are pasting into.  Just select the header row and as many additional rows as you want in Excel, control-C, then bring up the Finale window, and control-V to paste.   While the scriptNotes2 and scriptNotes3 weren't yet incorporated into the show import function, they do import just fine with this copy/paste method.   Aside from this workaround, I've fixed the bug you reports, and noticed a few additional missing columns which I've also added.  The fix will come out in the next beta release in about a week and a half.

I created a CSV file from a internal system and imported this one with "merge into exisiting show" >> "Do it yourself CSV". What i observed is that the fields "scriptNotes2", "custom numeric field" and "scriptNotes3" will not considered by the import function. Maybe some other cause my file doesnt include all F3d columns. I also tried it with headers like "Notes 2" or "scriptnotes2" or similar without any succes. Can you tell me where is my fault?