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Starting Pixotope - START

Academy Tutorial - Pixotope Director Walkthrough - START View

  • Step by Step Walkthrough of the START View in Director

Start Pixotope

  1. Double-click the "Pixotope [version number]" icon on your desktop

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This launches Pixotope Daemon, which will start all necessary Pixotope services including the Pixotope Director.

Other ways to start Pixotope

  • Start menu > Pixotope [version] - icon

  • [Installation folder]\Services\Daemon\launch\LaunchDirector.bat

Need more panels? Learn more about how to open Director in the browser

Log in

For accessing offline machines, check out Get a license for an offline machine (air-gapped)

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Choose a license

Check out which license type fits your needs: License types - AR/VS, XR, Control, Artist and more

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You can change the license type later in the User menu (top right when logged in)

  • If the list of licenses is empty, contact your account admin to assign licenses to your user account via the cloud.

  • If the license appears, but shows "0" available, this means that license is being used on another machine.

    • You can release the license via your Pixotope cloud account → login.pixotope.com > My Licenses

Learn more about how to Manage users and licenses

Select a role

Roles are used to define the responsibility of a machine in a Pixotope network.

Learn more about Roles - Stand-alone, Client or Server

Learn more about Single- and multi-machine example setups

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This selection is shown on first startup and can be changed later under START > Storage > Machine settings

Select a network

For Server role

Choose the network adapter which should be used for communication between Pixotope machines.

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Tracking data can be sent via another network adapter as long as they are both on the same subnet.

For Client role

Choose the server to connect to.

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For Stand-alone role

There is no network selection.

Create a new show

Learn more about Show files and how to manage them

Click the Create new show button in START > Shows

Choose between the following:

Create a show from an existing project

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  • Name your show file

  • Select where your project file is stored on the machine

    • Asset Hub - dropdown list would automatically fetch all project files in the file path C:\Pixotope\Synced Storage\Projects

    • Other - open the file explorer and manually select the project file

      • you can then choose to keep the project local only, copy or move it to C:\Pixotope\Synced Storage\Projects for the Asset Hub to track and sync changes between machines.

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Learn more about syncing using the Asset Hub

Create a show from a Pixotope template

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  • Select the type of project template you want

  • Name your show file

  • Select where to save the project template file

    • Asset Hub - will save to the path C:\Pixotope\Synced Storage\Projects and keep any changes to the project synced across machines

    • Other - open the file explorer and manually select where to save the project template file

Optionally: Check the network health

For a multi-machine setup it is a good idea to check the health of your network before going Live and interrupting your performance.

  1. Continue into your created show or the existing Default Show

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  2. Go to the Diagnostics > Connections panel

  3. Click

    • "Check all" to test the connection of all machines in the network

    • OR "Check this" to test only the connection to a single machine

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Next step

Continue to Create, open and manage shows