Gobo images in worksheets or graphic legends

[Cookie_NZ]

Hi all,

 

Has anyone come up with a way to add a gobo image (jpg or png) to a worksheet or graphic legend? 

 

I'm trying to find an elegant way to count gobos and display a reference image of the gobo.

 

There are a few posts on the forum relating to this.  But I haven't found one that has a nice clean solution yet.  

 

Cheers,

 

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[Jesse Cogswell]

There is a way to get them into worksheets that's a little hacky, but it works.  Here's how I usually do it:

1. Import the gobo image as an Image resource.
2. On a layer somewhere (I usually specify it as a NonPlot layer), make a rectangle and assign the image as the Fill.
3. Name the rectangle by filling in the Name field at the bottom of the Object Info Palette
4. In a worksheet, use the formula =IMAGE(N='<name>').  It should place  an image of the named object.

 

I'm not sure if this process would also work with Graphic Legends.  I haven't delved too deeply into Graphic Legends yet.

[Tom W.]

Displaying the gobo-as-image-fill in a Graphic Legend would work fine but I'm not sure how you'd display the additional data - ID #, Description, Size + Count - because the data needs to come from the Legend Source which in this case is a series of Rectangles... So like a database report rather than a spreadsheet report. At least I think that's how it works.

[Jesse Cogswell]

I can't really think of a way to do this as a database report without making a bunch of extra work.  I can make a database of any Lighting Device object whose Gobo 1 field is not empty and summarize items, but can't really think of a way to get the gobo image into it.  Is there a formula that can load in a Renderworks Texture image into a worksheet?  In the example above, I had textures for each of the gobos so that I could use them in the Spotlight Lighting Device objects, but I could not find a way to get the image of the texture into a worksheet cell.  After spending the better part of an afternoon trying, I finally just made a standard worksheet as above and writing a basic formula to count the number of Lighting Device objects whose gobos matched the ID number.

 

If I remember correctly, the Worksheet image functions can only work on drawing objects, not definition objects in the Resource Manager.  Hence why I could only get the gobo images to work once they were attached to named rectangles within the drawing.

[Cookie_NZ]

Hi Jesse & Tom,

 

Thanks for the thoughts on this. And thank Jesse for spending an afternoon working the problem! 
 

I might pop in a feature request. It seems a shame to not be able to count and visually represent a resource like a gobo. And there is a precedent for this: A plant object can have an image attached to it which can be displayed in worksheets. It would be great to extend this functionality to lighting devices. 
 

Thanks again for the help. 
 

Cheers,

 

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