Soft Blend stopped working

[Dirk67]

A few days ago I started stetting up two projectors and used soft edge to blend both images seamlessly together. Over the last couple of days I have loaded content into Resolume, connected it to a Midi trigger via Ableton and everything seemed fine. But now when I set up the two projectors the soft edge feature doesn't blend. I have three outputs. The first one is my laptop screen. The next two are the two projectors. Each one contains only one slice, both overlapping. I can enable soft edge on projector 1 and I even get controls. But moving the sliders doesn't show any difference. On projector 2 I can enable soft edge as well but the controls don't show up (Do they automatically show when soft edge is enabled or is there a hidden click to make those visible?). Overall both slices don't show any difference in the overlapping area, no matter if soft edge is on or not. A day ago I did some setting changes on the projectors but that shouldn't have any impact, or not? Any thoughts? Thank you. D!RK

[drazkers]

What version and OS are you?

[Dirk67]

10.13.03

[drazkers]

10.13.03

I'm not seeing anything weird with soft edge on 6.0.10, would you mind posting you're advanced output file here?

[Dirk67]

It took me a bit to get access to my laptop again. Here are two screenshots. One of the slice 1 and one of the slice 2 settings. Overall I get a nice, wide projection with a 20% overlap and I can align the images via point adjustment in the output window. But the soft edge feature doesn't kick in. My hunch is that my mistake may be that I feed both slices directly to different displays. I have seen people setting up a virtual display with both slices living right underneath. I just don't know how I would then feed those to different outputs. Do slices have to be under one display to allow for soft edge? Any thoughts? Thank you. D!RK

[Dirk67]

Any last recommendations on the setup that I posted? Really would like to get that tool to work. Thank you.

[Joris]

Your right slice is ever so slightly rotated. Unfortunately, the math for blending rotated slices is too complicated for us, so blending is disabled on slices with a rotation other than 0 degrees.

[Dirk67]

That's why. I would have never figured this out. But it makes sense. Would be cool if it would give you a window that tells you why a feature got disabled. Thank you so much for responding. Saved my day. D!RK