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Starting Pixotope - START

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

Pixotope

Pixotope No-Engine
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  • If Pixotope is NOT running

    • all necessary Pixotope services including Pixotope Director are launched

  • If Pixotope is running and

    • the same version as clicked

      • a new Director instance is opened

    • a different version is clicked

      • the currently open version is closed and the clicked version is opened

Want to automatically launch Pixotope on startup or in the background? Learn more about Running Pixotope in the background

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

Log in

  1. Click "Log in with browser"

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  2. This opens the Login tab (Pixotope Access) in your default browser

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  3. Log in with your credentials

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

Choose a license

  1. In the browser choose the licenses and add-ons needed

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  2. Click "Choose license"

  3. You are now logged in and Director get’s back in focus

    • The browser tab can now be closed

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

You can change the license later

  • via the User menu (Director - top right)

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  • via the Pixotope tray menu (Windows - bottom right)

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If the list of licenses is empty

  • Click on "View all licenses" (OR go to → login.pixotope.com > My Licenses) and release a license from a machine which is currently not in use

  • OR contact your account admin to assign you a valid license

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 how to Use Backup Server (failover)

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 how to Create, open and manage shows

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 how to Sync projects and other files in Synced storage

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

Check the network health

Learn more about how to Check the network health

Next step

Continue to Create, open and manage shows