Steps to Use a Scope in Flame (there are way too many)

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  1. press alt-2 for 2-up view
  2. change the left monitor to the “monitor” monitor
  3. set the right monitor to “scopes”
  4. find the node you were on in the left monitor, because it was lost in the panel change and also isn’t quite selected so Space-F won’t get you back there. this seems to happen because 2-up and 1-up have different views of the schematic and will remember where they were the last time you were in that configuration.

Am I doing something wrong? Each step in this process feels actively backwards, from having to set the left (aka center) monitor so that I can call up the scopes on the right one, to the node graph view getting completely lost. It’s a mess. I just want the vector scope for a few minutes.

I love them scopes, but toggling them on and off should be a one-button affair. Hit the button, flame does the above steps for me.

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^^^^ This!!!

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Make it similar to the color sampler. Shoot-combine it with the sampler, floating window and all.

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Yes please!

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It seems to be highly variable depending on how many monitors you have and if you’re in effects / batch / etc.

In Effects, I can take any viewer and just hit the Scopes icon and it works. If you do have two monitors, there’s an option in the Flame menu to display scopes on the second monitor.

But I agree. Everytime I need the Flame scopes, it’s a chase of how to show them. For the most part I use external scopes (OmniScopes) which are more versatile. But that’s too much setup for an occasional need.

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Using Layouts can cut most of these steps. I don’t remember the last time I manually switched from 1-up to 2-up.

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