Important to understand the differences and how they appear.
REGISTERING – This is a button on the SmartDancer Controller. Pressing it sends THAT controllers formations to the matching animesh/avatars.
ACTIVATION – This determines WHICH SmartDancer Controllers will receive and respond to commands from the Artiste Performance HUD via autofx commands.
Activation NOW happens AUTOMATICALLY when you REGISTER. It makes THAT controller that you pressed the Register button on, the ACTIVE Controller and makes all other controllers INACTIVE.
A controller CANNOT be operated locally/manually if it is NOT ACTIVE. This helps avoid confusion as to which controller is in charge at any one time. It is smart to REGISTER a given controller when you want to use it. It will deactivate all other controllers. You can see which controller is active on the controller menu.
You normally ACTIVATE a controller thru the autofx command SD=ID? where ? is a number between 0 and 9 (or more?);
RESETTING a controller AUTOMATICALLY makes it ACTIVE. Yes, you could have more than 1 Controller ACTIVE at the same time, if that is your intention but the last one RESET becomes the one that sends formations to avatar/animesh so I am not sure what the value would be in that. And sending autofx commands would be confusing. So its best to REGISTER a specific controller after you have reset 1 or more controllers.
SENDING an ID of zero (i.e. 1,SD=ID0) sends subsequent autofx SD commands to ALL Controllers whether they are active OR inactive
You Set a controllers ID using the *channels nc in the controller.
ActivationId,1
UseTallBots,off
EnforceSameHeight,off
CanonIntervalOverride,2
TurnDurationOverride,5
ChannelForSmartDancerFollower,-897434670
ChannelForFromArtisteHUD,-722322179
ChannelForIntraScriptPrepForm,-953186463
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Yes, you can have the SAME ActivationID on multiple controllers, if that is your intent.