User Manual ( Version 2015/1.0 ) Version 2015/1.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Content: 1. Preface ............................................................................................ 10 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. Liability ....................................................................................................... 10 Versions ...................................................................................................... 11 Minimum Hardware Requirements.......................................................... 11 2. Installation..............
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.1. 6.2. Create and Edit Figures ............................................................................ 45 Graphics Features ..................................................................................... 46 6.3. Marking- and Editing-Tools ...................................................................... 54 6.4. Frame Tools ................................................................................................ 57 6.5.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.11.7. 6.11.8. 6.11.9. 6.11.10. Simulation: ................................................................................................................... 67 Black Screen:............................................................................................................... 67 Complete Reset: .......................................................................................................... 68 Assign Figure:....................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.17.11. Morph All ...................................................................................................................... 77 6.18. Menu: Windows ......................................................................................... 78 6.18.1. 6.18.2. 6.18.3. 6.18.4. 6.18.5. 6.18.6. 6.18.7. 6.18.8. 6.18.9. 6.18.10. 6.18.11. 6.18.12. 6.18.13. 6.18.14. Options ........................................................................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 8.5.4. DMX-Channels ................................................................................................................ 102 8.5.5. DMX-Ports (Input and Output) ....................................................................................... 102 8.5.6. DMX through ................................................................................................................... 102 8.5.7. DMX input offset .........................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 8.10.5. Area “Projektor Brightness” – Safety Zones, Beam Attenuation ............................ 114 8.11. Tab “Reset Settings” ................................................................................ 114 8.11.1. 8.11.2. 8.11.3. Button “Reset Settings” .............................................................................................. 114 Button “Reset only Windows Positions” ....................................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 9.7.4. Full screen ....................................................................................................................... 130 9.8. Menu: Play-List ........................................................................................ 130 9.9. Menu: Info.txt ........................................................................................... 131 9.8.1. Display ............................................................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 11.5.6. 11.5.7. 11.5.8. Button: DMX Mapper ................................................................................................. 139 Macro Area................................................................................................................ 139 DMX Macro “Note off Figur***Aus***” ..................................................................... 139 11.6. “Intelligent”-DMX .............................................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 1. Preface To get started with Showeditor quickly, we recommend having a look at our Quick-Start-Guide (last pages of this document). This Quick-Start-Guide helps you in understanding the major features of Software without explaining too many details – so it’s perfect for everyone who likes to learn the software by doing. The software Laserworld Showeditor is under permanent development.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Every laser operator should bear in mind that he is at any time responsible for damages that may arise from his use of laser gear. 1.2. Versions There are different versions of the software available: DEMO: A DEMO Version of the software is available. The features of this version are limited and it is not possible to output to any hardware interfaces.. Full Version: The full software package is active as soon as a licensed hardware device is connected, like the ShowNET.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 does not provide any support for Showeditor installations on non-native Microsoft Windows systems. The more DACs are controlled from one computer, the more “power” is required. “Comfortable Working”: The laser output is calculated in real time. Dependent upon load of the computer it could happen, that animations will show short stops or will hang up. Therefore we recommend a better equipped system than the above described minimal requirements.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 1: Setup-Wizard of Laserworld Showeditor. Now select the option “Remove Laserworld Showeditor” with a mouse click on the respective radio button. After confirmation via a click on “Finish”, the old program will be removed. The *.ini-file remains in the Windows folder (operating system folder). Thus all settings will be conserved (serial number, hardware setup etc.). Now the “update” can be carried out like a new installation.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 2.4. DLL-Files and Error-Messages during Installation In the case any error messages show up during the installation process, please have a closer look at our troubleshooting hints on http://www.showeditor.com/troubleshooting 2.5. Laser Output Hardware (DAC) Laserworld strongly recommends to only using the ShowNET interfaces with Laserworld Showeditor. The software is optimized for this DAC, and the licensing is also handled through it.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 2: Menu “Options/Hardware” for the selection of the hardware interfaces (DAC). Up to 16 interfaces can be used. The shown setup is useful for a simulation of a 1 + 2 projector show (typical setup). Version 2015/1.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 2.5.1. Simulation and Virtual Device For a simulation/visualization of the laser show, no real output hardware device is required. But it is essential, that the “Virtual Device” is assigned to the respective output channels in “Options Hardware”. If there is no real hardware device detected, at least one “Virtual Device” is selected as standard. If the software detects any DAC, it will be automatically added to the list in the order they are detected.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 The simulation uses Direct-X 8.0 (or newer) or OpenGL. With Direct-X, the simulation works quicker, but is not as accurate. It is possible to simulate beam shows as well as graphics shows. Also a combination of beam and graphic is possible (like used in Fig.5). Up to sixteen simulated projectors are possible. To open the dialog to adjust the simulation, click the right mouse button in the simulation window or use the menu “Options”.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 To end the simulation, just click on the cross in the upper right corner of the window. If you click on “Laser Off” (or you stop the show), the simulation window disappears, but will automatically reappear on restart of the output. 2.5.2. Friendly Names Each DAC interface can be named individually. The name can be set in the hardware options (Options Hardware) with click on the button “Set Device Name”.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 For using the DMX features of the ShowNET interface, it is necessary to connect the DMX-Adapter to the ILDA line. The DMX Adapter can be purchased through Laserworld or their distribution partners. 2.5.5. MIDI Settings Each installed MIDI-port on the PC should be automatically recognized by Laserworld Showeditor, including virtual ones. MIDI can be used to control the Live Window, the Timeline as well as the playlist.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Timeline/Progress of Song Effect-Sub-Tracks for Recording Figure-Sub-Track for Recording Fig. 6 (above): Timeline: Pages A–P (red circle) with each 3 figure-tracks and their effect-sub-tracks. These pages are assigned to the hardware-output-routing for up to sixteen DAC (red arrow). (below): Options/Hardware: Output routing of pages A-P (see Fig.7; with each 3 figuretracks and their effect-sub-tracks) to the hardware with up to sixteen DAC. Version 2015/1.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 2.7. Starting the Program To start the program, just click on its icon (small pictures) on your computer-screen, which the installation has generated on the desktop automatically. After the start of the program, you should see the main-window on your screen like shown in the picture below. On startup of Showeditor, a window opens that allows for selecting the operation mode of Showeditor.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Usually any supported hardware interface that is connected to the computer is automatically detected by the Showeditor software. To make sure everything is connected and assigned correctly, please verify the settings. Important information on Settings and their effect: Changes to any parameter have immediate effect. To preserve the settings even after a restart of Showeditor, a click on “Save Settings and Close Window” writes them to the startup configuration file. 2.8.1.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 It is also possible to assign a “Virtual Device” to the hardware channels. This is required if no real hardware output interface is connected to the computer or if more than the connected hardware interfaces shall be used for programming and 3D preview. If Laserworld Showeditor is run in Freeware/Demo Mode, only one hardware channel can be assigned and only the virtual device can be chosen.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 If scan speed settings of more than 25’000pps are selected, a warning message shows up, explaining that this may damage scanners if not used with precaution. You can stop this dialog box from opening up again by clicking “No” (“Nein”): INFOBOX: It is strongly recommended to not daisy-chain an ILDA signal line to connect laser systems with different scanner systems.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 The left column of faders in this Tab is especially suited for fine tuning of the output. It is recommended to follow the “Scanner Optimization” guide when applying settings here. See chapter 8.8 for details. A reset of each fader position can be done by double-clicking on the explanatory text next to it. 2.8.4. Save your settings Changes to any parameter have immediate effect.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 The laser will be switched on; the show is running, starting from the current position. More information to this is given below. This feature is mainly useful when editing the show. ● Play HQ: This is the best option to choose if the show should just be played. It’s recommended to use the Play-HQ option for any real playback output. The Play-HQ option is more performant and starts the show from the very beginning.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 3.2. Create Own Figures and Shows IMPORTANT! When a new figure is to be created, it is essential to ALWAYS click on “New Figure”. Otherwise the figure created before will be overwritten! Different tools for drawing a picture in the central drawing window are provided: “Poly-Line” Standard active is the Poly-Line tool. With left mouse clicks in the drawing area, colored points will be set; with the right mouse button invisible (blanked) points will be set.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 “Polygon” This tool is used to create polygon tunnels with plane sides. The number of corners can be changed with right mouse click on the tool. A polygon with very many corners will look like a circle. A polygon with four corners will display a rectangle; three corners display a triangle. The sides of the polygon can be colored separately. “Line” This tool is used to create laser planes in your show. The line is generated with blanked points at start and end point.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 The features “Rotate”, “Change Color”, “Delete” “Optimize” can be used similar. They immediately apply for the points marked. and The “Magnifying Glass” is used to magnify regions of the drawing window. Magnification can be done either by drag-zoom or use of the scroll wheel at the mouse. Left mouse click on the tool returns magnification to 100%. Right mouse clicks preserves the actual magnification settings. All features are explained more in detail in the main manual.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 14: “Save Figure” – dialog: opens on first saving of a figure. I t’s also possible to create a new folder Already existing figures will be overwritten without any warning, so be careful. On saving single figures, the show file itself is not generated. On creating a new show in the Timeline editor, a new show is created and can then be saved. More information on this is in the main manual.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 There are several ways of assigning figures to keys: 3.4.1. Manual Assignment To assign a figure to a key of the PC or the MIDI keyboard it has to be selected: Rightclick on its icon in the Figure Table (Fig.17). Then click “Assign Figure”. A message will be displayed until a key was pressed. If this key is already assigned to another figure, a warning will be displayed. A right-click opens this dialog Fig. 15: Assignment of keys to figures.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 When overwriting a figure with another one in the show folder (the other figure is given the same name within the Windows Explorer), the key assignment will be preserved. The system links key and figure through the figure name. Fig. 16: Key assignment within the Live Window. It is also possible to do the assignments automatically by using the menu Figure Assignment -> Assign figures automatically in the Figure Editor.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 3.5. Use of Function Keys (F0 to F12) This is important! To use figures within a show, they have to be assigned to a key before. Laserworld Showeditor figures are always triggered by pressing keys. “Keys” can also be Timeline feedback, MIDI, DMX, etc.. All keys can be used in combination with the function (“F”) keys. The keys F1 to F12 can be used, but the software also can respond to F0, which means “NO function key used”.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 synchronous to the sound file. As the Timeline consists of many different rows – most of them used for effects – it’s important to understand that the figures must be placed on the line named “figure”. The featured “Grid” and “Zoom” help with proper music synchronous positioning of the figures. It is possible to put figures to several figure tracks per output channel. With using the “Effect Tool” (see red arrow in next Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Two recording modes for figures are possible: To only record figure start points but then let run until the next figure starts or the Space-bar is pressed, use the standard settings. If the figure should only be recorded as long as the appropriate key is pressed, change Use key-up event => figure off in the Settings. The position on the timeline for the start of the recording can be set by a click at the very position in the Timeline bar (right of the “Paste” button).
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 22: Live Window after loading a live show 3.7.2. Faders/Sliders: In the upper right corner of the Live Window, several faders are available. These faders can be assigned to different effects. They can either be dragged with the mouse or assigned to a DMX controller or MIDI controller. For easy show operation it is recommended to use a DMX or MIDI controller for the fader control, as it allows for quicker reaction and smoother operation as with the normal mouse. 3.7.3.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 3.7.4. Setup options per key Individual settings can be assigned per key. This are some examples: “Use Key Up Event (Flash)”: Only plays the figure as long as the corresponding key is pressed. Output stops, as soon as the key is released, when this option is active. “Switch off unused tracks”: Switches off all other figures that output on other channels, if they are different from the figure selected.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 3) Assign figures to keys (best is to do it by Drag and Drop into the Live Window) 4) Verify the settings for EACH key and eventually correct them 5) Save the new live show by a click on “Save Live Show”. 4. The Windows of Laserworld Showeditor Laserworld Showeditor uses several windows to provide different workspaces for certain applications. This multi-window configuration makes it easy to use many features at the same time with a multi monitor setup.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 4.2. The Options window Fig. 25: Options Window The Options window offers a wide variety of different settings and adjustment options. This window is structured with several tabs which provide thematically arranged setting that apply for laser output configuration as well as for programming. Version 2015/1.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 4.3. The Effects Window Fig. 26: The Effects Window The Effects window provides all the animation effects that can be applied to figures including some output optimization features to improve figure output quality. Version 2015/1.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 4.4. The Timeline-Editor Fig. 27: The Timeline-Editor The Timeline-Editor is the main window for arranging a laser show, synchronous to a music file. The Timeline consists of “tracks”. Figures and effects to these figures are arranged in these tracks. Figures and effects can be programmed on the timeline by using different programming methods. The figures created in the Figure Editor window and in the Figure Table are available to being arranged on the timeline tracks.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 28: The Play List The Timeline-Editor window also provides the Playlist tool, a playback system for existing shows. They can be loaded to a list and then played in a certain order or when triggered. 4.5. The DMX-Window Fig. 29: The DMX Window The DMX window is used for the configuration of DMX control and the creation and management of the DMX-Macros.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 4.6. The Live Window Fig. 30: The Live Window The Live window is used for creating live laser shows. Its design is similar to the position of the keys on a computer keyboard and the figures are assigned to these keys. Thus it is possible to easily play lasers and DMX live to the music. Version 2015/1.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 5. Main Manual The following part of this manual describes the features of Laserworld Showeditor in detail. Even though most of the features can be explained in this manual, there are always more possibilities that cannot be shown in the manual properly. Please feel encouraged to have a look at http://www.showeditor.com to learn more about Laserworld Showeditor, ask the community or the developers, and share your experience with others. 6.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 The right column of the Figure Editor window provides the option for color selection for the drawing tools: A color circle / color wheel and a color cube are available, as well as a palette with 20 preset bright laser colors (can be changed and customized). The main control button set for handling the different windows is situated right below the color selection options.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.2. Graphics Features Drawings in Laserworld Showeditor are vector-graphics. This means, that pictures are drawn from one point to the next one. Normal, visible points are set with a left mouse click, where blanked, invisible points are set with right mouse click. The tools for drawing figures (already explained in chapter 4.1) are shown in Fig.25. Detailed explanation of each drawing option: 6.2.1. New Figure: This creates a completely new figure 6.2.2.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 has to be lifted so no line is drawn, if not every drawn object should be linked by a drawn line. If the use of the Poly-Line tool is finished (when selecting different drawing tool), Showeditor automatically checks if an invisible end point exists. If not, a dialog box opens up asking if one should be set. 6.2.5. Line: A single line can be drawn with this tool. Only one line is drawn and start as well as end points are automatically set.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 33: Figure Editor: Dialog for text options (click with right mouse button on the text tool) After having made the appropriate adjustments, click “Close Window”. When activating the text tool with left mouse click, the new settings have effect: In the drawing area, click at the starting point of the first letter: The dialog box for entering the desired text shows up. Please confirm with OK after having typed the text.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 34: Text Editor: Write longer texts here When having entered the text, Showeditor automatically shapes the text correctly when “Create” is clicked. The continuous text is automatically wrapped in a way that not too many characters must be displayed at one – this avoids flickering of the text projection, as it doesn’t stress the scanner motors too much. When clicking “Create”, a dialog box opens asking, if the characters should morph.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 not click on “Create”, but just close the window. Again select the text tool (“A”) with a left click and then draw the scrolling area by click and drag in the drawing are. The text-entry dialog opens and the scrolling text can be entered. This method is the most convenient one, and used in most cases.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.2.8. Rectangle: The rectangle tool allows for drawing rectangular shapes. The rectangles consist of a blanked start and a blanked end point as well as a visible point in every corner, connected by lines. Select the rectangle tool, click at the desired position in the drawing area and drag the shape to the desired size. 6.2.9. Polygon: Polygons are multi cornered shapes with equally long sides. With a right click on the icon the number of corners can be set.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 idea to just delete half of the points to get a half ellipse. To make a half ellipse it is better to set the color of one half of the points to black and thus make them invisible. Furthermore the points of an ellipse should not be moved, as this could lead to very large drawing distances – which can destroy the scanner system! In case such adaptions need to be made, it is better to use a polygon with about 50 points.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 2. Draw the first control line (defines starting point) – it will NOT be visible, but it’s position and angle defines the left part of the line 3. Draw the second control line (defines end point) – this one will be visible now, as well as the first control line. Plus the drawn line becomes visible as well. 4. A dialog opens asking if a blanked end point should be set. Choose “yes” in case there should be a blank between the Bezier’s end point and the next line/point.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.3. Marking- and Editing-Tools New or already existing figures can be edited. A set of different marking- and editing-tools are implemented in Laserworld Showeditor (Fig. 39). 6.3.1. Hand: The hand-tool is the most important tool for creating figures. With this tool points of a figure can be marked. To mark points, select the tool and left-click and drag a selection square in the drawing area, so all points in the desired region become selected. (Fig. 40). Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Sometimes it may be necessary to set the grid to 1 to be able to select points which are not easily accessible as lying in another layer. If the hand tool gets a red background, this indicates that there are already one or more points marked. (see Fig. 40) The marked points get a colored circle. Additional points can be marked by holding the “Ctrl”-key. To mark ALL points use the appropriate button “Mark all points”.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 This procedure works for single points as well as for several points with connecting lines. If there are no points marked and the tool is selected, the color of the point just under the mouse cursor is changed. Besides that it is possible to hold the mouse button and change the color of all points that are hit by the cursor by dragging the mouse. By using the left mouse button for the re-coloring procedure, only visible points are changed.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 A rectangle consists of 4 corner points and the lines between them. A Galvo scanner system is, without optimization, not able to simply project these 4 coordinates, because of its resonances and its physically given inertia (mainly of the mirrors that need to move very very fast. The bigger and heavier the mirrors are, the higher is the inertia). Too slow Galvo scanners are not able to display the corners correctly. The rectangle then becomes something like a circle.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 A figure consists of one or several frames. Like a video sequence, the consecutive frames show an animation. These Multi-frame figures are quite common and Laserworld Showeditor provides many features for animations and frame settings. Different terms may be used to specify these “multiframe” figures: Sometimes they are called “multiframe”, sometimes “Animations” or just “Frames”. All terms mean the same. When a single or multiframe figure is played, there is a Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 doing so, more frames are embedded in between frame A and B creating a smooth animation. Technically spoken, this is what Laserworld Showeditor does when morphing frames: The two frames – beginning frame and end frame - are calculated with the same number of points, adapting each frame to the one with the most points. The points of the frame are the shifted gradually from their start position in frame A to their end point in Frame B. The color values are morphed respectively.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 45: The number of the end frame must be entered. If only two frames are in the figure, this would be “1” Fig. 46: The number of morphed frames that should be inserted must be specified. The more frames are inserted, the smoother the transition. The required number of frames also depends on the speed the morphed figure shall be played later. A value of “10” is good to lean how the tool works, but even 50 or more frames are possible – depending on what is required. 6.4.5.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.4.6. Frames per Second: “Frames per Second” defines how many frames of a figure shall be displayed per second. This is the actual speed the figure is played in. Depending on the number of frames the figure consists of, the speed needs to be adjusted: If too few frames are played too slowly, the output has a stuttering look, as each frame stays visible for too long. Setting the correct frame rate is important, especially for graphics and text animated figures.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 This way the output speed of the figure is independent of the DAC as well as of the laser system in use. The animation speed of the displayed figure remains the same. If a short stutter is recognized on output, a slight adjustment of the fps rate can fix this. 6.4.7. Scroll-Bar (Frame Selection): The scroll-bar below the button “Frames per Second” is used for changing between the single frames of a figure.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 figure hasn’t been saved yet, the “Save as” dialog opens and the figure can be named and then saved. 6.5.2. Save As This opens the standard “Save as” dialog, asking where the file should be saved to and offering the possibility to enter a file name. Figures created with Laserworld Showeditor are saved in the *.heb file format. Export to *.ild file format is possible as well. Please refer to section 6.13.8 for further details on this.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 49: Options->Hardware: Setting of Output Routing 6.8. Color Selection Laserworld Showeditor offers three different color selection options for drawing frames ad figures: The Color Circle (Fig. 50), the Color Cube (Fig. 51) and the Color Palette (Fig. 52). The setting of the desired color selection mode can be done at Options -> Others. Fig. 51: Color Cube 6.8.1. Fig. 50: Color Circle Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 at least one color channel runs at full power. The Color Palette can be customized by just drag-and-drop of colors from the Color Cube or Color Circle to a palette field. 6.9. Checkbox “Figures Always on Top“ If “Figures always on top” (Fig. 53) is selected, the Figure Table always stays in the foreground. This is very useful if the figures are used for drag-and-drop programming and also for figure creating in the Figure editor. Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 pictures in the table of the Test Pictures (Test Pictures -> Show Test Pictures). 6.10.2. Test Pictures The folder “HE_s_Testbilder” contains some very useful test pictures for laser projector setup. Please find some a more detailed explanation them in Chapter 6.21. Laserworld Showeditor also come with some tutorial PDF files that explain the use of test pictures more in detail.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.11.5. Options: The Options window is used for the basic configuration of Laserworld Showeditor. Hardware setting, usability features and performance settings etc. can be made here. Please refer to chapter 8 “Options” for further information. 6.11.6. Laser ON: “Laser ON” switches on the laser output (if the hardware is properly configured and able to output). By deactivating “Laser ON”, the laser output is stopped immediately.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.11.9. Complete Reset: “Complete Reset” updates all figures by reloading them to the Figure Table. This resets all unsaved changes that have been done to any figures. 6.11.10. Assign Figure: Key assignment can be done by using this button. The assignment of figures to keys on the keyboard is essential for further work in the Live Window and the Timeline Window. There are several other ways to assign figures to keys. Those will be explained in the following chapters. 6.12.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.13.5. Save, Save As, Save All These menu items do the same as the “Save”-, “Save As” and “Save All”- buttons (see chapter 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3): They offer different saving options for figures. 6.13.6. Delete File “Delete File” can be used for deleting the active figure. It is deleted from the hard disc and thus also disappears from the Figure Table. On deleting a figure, the Figure Table is reloaded. 6.13.7.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Important: On using the ILDA export feature, only the basic coordinates are exported. An optimization or interpolation is not done. If this is required or if a complete show shall be exported, use the show export feature File -> Export Show as ILDA-File. Different ILDA-formats are offered for export. The recommended one is: Type 5 ILDAfile (RGB). Please consider that not every program can read every ILDA-format correctly. 6.13.9. Import *.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 The background image is set to “visible” and is displayed. Fig. 61: Figure Editor: Background image 6.14.4. Hidden Background Image The background image can be hidden by activating this menu item 6.14.5. Edit Laser Frame / Edit Background Image There is the option to either edit the laser frame or the background image. Selecting one of the options unselects the other one.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 a) Select the image to be displayed Click on Background Image -> Load Image to load the desired image as background of the drawing area. The part of the image that should actually be converted to a raster frame can be selected in the next steps. b) Define the grid size It’s very essential to properly define the grid size before continuing with the raster frame process. This is important as the grid size specifies the number of points that are drawn during the conversion.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 mount the laser in a bigger distance to the projection surface. This makes it easier for the scanners to handle the high point density, as the inertia doesn’t affect the scanning in small angles too much. As raster frames are so difficult to handle for scanners, they are very likely to flickering if the scan speed is too low. This is a normal behaviour. To reduce flickering, either use a bigger grid size to reduce the number of points, or use a faster scanning system.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.15.2. Mark all Points Mark all points of the actual frame by using this menu item. Having all points of a frame marked allows for easy copying, moving or distorting of the whole frame. 6.15.3. Cut This item does what it says and has the same function as the button “Cut”. 6.15.4. Copy This item does what it says and has the same function as the button “Copy”. 6.15.5. Paste This item does what it says and has the same function as the button “Paste”. 6.15.6.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.16.3. Print Keyboard-List The MIDI-keyboard key assignment list can be printed with using this menu item. The print-out can be attached to the keyboard then. 6.16.4. Show Keyboard-List The MIDI-keyboard key assignment list can be displayed with using this menu item. 6.16.5. Assign Figure This provides the same features as the “Assign Figure” Button. Please refer to Chapter 6.11.10 for details. 6.16.6.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 65: Free keys shown in the Live Window 6.17. Menu: Frame Tools Fig. 66: Figure Editor: Menu Frame Tools 6.17.1. New Frame New Frame feature, as described in Chapter 6.4.1 6.17.2. Delete Frame Delete Frame feature, as described in Chapter 6.4.2. 6.17.3. Insert Frame Insert Frame feature, as described in Chapter 6.4.3. Version 2015/1.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.17.4. Copy Frames A=>B to Clipboard A series of frames can be copied to the clipboard with this menu item. A dialog opens, asking for the start and the end frame to be copied. Of course this feature is only available if the figure consists of more than one frame. 6.17.5. Cut Frames A=>B and Copy to Clipboard A series of frames can be cut and moved to the clipboard with this menu item. A dialog opens, asking for the start and the end frame to be cut.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.18. Menu: Windows 6.18.1. Options This menu and its sub-menus provide direct access to the settings in “Options” (described in 8, also compare to 6.11.5 and the initial settings in 2.8). It is also possible to reset the window positions through one of the sub-menus. 6.18.2. Special Functions This menu item offers access to special additional features of Laserworld Showeditor. Some of these special features can be very helpful especially for the conversion of ILDA.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.18.3. DMX This menu item provides the same features as the “DMX” button: It opens the DMXWindow (See 6.11.4). 6.18.4. Timeline This menu item provides the same features as the “Timeline” button: It opens the Timeline window (See 6.11.2). 6.18.5. Effects This menu item provides the same features as the “Effects” button: It opens the Effects Window (See 6.11.3 and 7). 6.18.6. Automatic / Sound Mode This menu item opens the window of the Automatic-Laser-Player (Fig. 68).
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 A “Softwarecave” logo in the upper left corner shows that the plugin is active. Click “enable” in the automatic mode window, so the plugin can start to analyse the frequencies. It is necessary to start the tracks by clicking on the “Start” button of the very track. If music is playing in WinAmp, the incoming frequency tracks should be visible in the VB-WinAmp Link area. (See Fig. 69).
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Click “Stop Song” to stop the sound output. The longer the beat is recorded, the more precise is the calculated BPM. 6.18.8. Tool: Wave-Generator The “Wave-Generator” is a special tool for automatically creating waves and other periodic figures. The tool appears to be complex, but it isn’t: It provides a multitude of features that result in stunning, automatically created animations that would take plenty of time if they would be created manually. Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 The frequency describes the number of peaks and wave trough in the space. In Fig. 71 the frequency is 1 for wave 1 and it is assigned to the y coordinates with amplitude 20000. Thus the generated wave has 1 peak and 1 wave trough in total. The generator for wave 2 is also assigned to the y coordinates, but has a frequency of 10 and smaller amplitude of 5000. That generates the smaller wave with 10 peaks, which is interfering the big wave (see preview window in Fig.72).
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 It is suggested to not exceed 1000 frames. Global Settings: The “Global Settings” apply to all generator tracks. “Number of Frame Points” determines the number of points of the wave (of one frame). “Frames per Second” adjusts the frame rate for the. This value can be changed later as well by adjusting the “Frames per Second”, see chapter 6.4.6. If the warning “Framecount >1000” is shown, reducing the frame rate to e.g. 30 may solve the problem of creating too many frames.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 A new animated multi-frame figure can be created with this tool, showing a moving frame alongside an animation path. The tool consists of several modules for the input: A) Input of Path Fig. 72 shows the dialog for drawing the animation path. It is either possible to draw the animation path with the mouse or to import the animation path from the active figure in the figure editor by clicking “Path from Frame”. For verifying the results, activating of “Ignore Blanking” can help.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 If “Snake” line is selected, a path line is created. The length of the path line is specified by the number entered in “Count of Pictures”. If “Use frame from main window” is selected, the active figure from the Figure Editor will be displayed in the window of the module and thus is selected as figure for the movement on the path. If the figure has not been chosen yet, it must be done at this point.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 effect with the active figure. The textbox allows for specifying the number of frames to be drawn. “Line Stretch for complete frame” starts drawing the figure in one point and then draws the lines until the figure is completed. Click “Apply” to use the effect with the active figure. The textbox allows for specifying the number of frames to be drawn. Fig. 75: Extra Tools: Stretch Lines Tool.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 First load a picture by using the button “Load Picture”. Then click on “Trace Image” to start the tracing. With the tracing the system tries to automatically convert the pixel image to a vector graphics. To avoid getting a flickering projection later, it is recommended to not exceed a limit of 2000 points in total for a 30kpps Galvo system.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig 77: Extra Tools: Color Shove When using the Color Shove Tool, several choices are possible: ● “Direction increasing point number” This option determines the direction to shoving the colors. ● “Move also blanking” When active, also the blanked points are shoved (the property “invisible” is regarded as color and is shoved through the figure). ● “All frames of figure” This option works for multi-frame figures.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 With using the tool a new figure is created. A dialog opens, asking for the desired transition effect for the color gradient. Fig. 78: Extra Tools: Dialog of “Insert Color Gradient” 6.18.14. Live Window Opens the Live Window (See chapter 13). 6.19. Menu: Color Table The color table is the central part of the software to handle color in- and output. Different color table settings are possible, so this menu offers different options for customizing the settings.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.20. Menu: Signs/Text 6.20.1. New Text or Sign Simple words and signs, not animated To use this kind of design, the text option “Morphing Text” should be selected. Fig. 80: Figure Editor: Menu Signs/Text Fig. 81: Figure Editor: Dialog for text options After having made the appropriate adjustments, click “Close Window”.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Right click on the A symbol to open the Text Editor. The text can then be entered into the text box in the left column: Fig. 82: Text Editor: Write longer texts here When having entered the text, Showeditor automatically shapes the text correctly when “Create” is clicked. The continuous text is automatically wrapped in a way that not too many characters must be displayed at one – this avoids flickering of the text projection, as it doesn’t stress the scanner motors too much.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 B: To create a running text without the need to enter X and Y coordinates for the scroll-area definition, first settings in the Text tool options should be checked for being set to “Scrolling Text” (Right click on the A symbol to opens the Text Editor). Then do not click on “Create”, but just close the window. Again select the text tool (“A”) with a left click and then draw the scrolling area by click and drag in the drawing are.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.20.2. Enable SMS Laserworld Showeditor supports the handling of Text Messages (SMS) for laser projection interactivity. The mobile SIEMENS TC35I GSM module is supported. Other mobile receivers haven’t been tested yet, but may work. Fig. 84: Figure Editor: Menu Signs/Text Enable SMS A control window for the SMS display shows. Choose the COM port the mobile receiver is connected to. A baud-rate of 19200 should be sufficient.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 A “bad word filter” can be set in the text area on the lower right. Words of this list show as XXX in the output. Bad word lists can also be saved and loaded again. The “Read all SMS from mobile” area provides several logging and reply features. SMS from File or SMS from TC53i In general the SMS should be handled by the TC35i. In addition to that there are several programs available that convert SMS to *.txt-files (e.g. http://www.t2slive.co.uk). These *.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 6.22.3. Update History This menu item opens the Changelog on the www.showeditor.com website that lists all the latest software improvements per software version. 6.22.4. Update Homepage Directly opens the Showeditor website with the latest software versions. 6.22.5. www.showeditor.com Link to the website of Laserworld Showeditor 7. Effects & Animation The Effects Window provides mighty features for animating and modifying the active figure.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 On calling the figure afterwards: Depending on the settings, the effects are applied to the figure as “Start Values” or not. Start Value means, that this is the initial position the laser starts on first call. If the behaviour of the figure is modified during the calling of the figure, it should restart with those modified settings on second call.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 normally not be visible and displays them at the side where they would have left the projection area. “Use Soft Color” activates smooth color transitions between points. The settings made in Options->Optimize Output->Soft Color Distance (see 8.8.6) are used for the fade effects. The Color Gradient is calculated and displayed in real time during the output. Activated “Optimize Corners” adds additional points at corners to improve the display of corners.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 “Shadow” suppresses the output of a part of the figure depending on the selected option. The shadowing refers to the geometrical center of the drawing area. A shift of the scan area in Options->Output has no influence on this effect. Important: On creation of a new figure, the Effects settings of the previous figure are applied as pre-configuration. On saving the program settings via Options, the active effect settings are saved as default settings, as well. 8.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 In case of an error caused by a defective *.ini file, it is recommended to simply delete this *.ini file – a new one with the standard, basic settings is automatically created on restart of the software. The Options Window also has a “Reset Settings” tab which provides similar but also more extended options for resetting the configuration file. The file path to the active and loaded *.ini file is shown at the bottom of the Options window, white letters on black background.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 8.3.1. Max. Number of Signs Laserworld Showeditor automatically splits up longer texts to avoid flickering effects on display. The Max. Number of Signs value specifies the number of characters the software should start at searching for a space in the text for creating a frame break. It starts counting from the end of the text. Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 90: Options Window, Tab “Show” 8.4.1. Damping for Absolute Rotation (Compression) If the “Absolute” option is used with effects, the values entered in this field apply. The damping avoids having stuttering effects in the laser projection. Smaller values result in more aggressive damping. Value one completely switches damping off. Values greater than 1 result in a discontinuous projection and/or overshooting of the scanners.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 91: Options Window, Tab “Midi/DMX” 8.5.1. Print Width (or Height) for 1 octave The width and height per octave for the printout of the key assignments for the MIDIkeyboard can be specified here. As standard, 5 octaves are printed per page, together with small thumbnails of the figures. The values can be changed to make the printout fit keyboards with smaller keys as well. 8.5.2.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Thus it is e.g. possible to transfer DMX signals from one rig to another one using the convenient LAN connection of the ShowNET interfaces. It is also possible to use the “start-channel” setting to offset the DMX values and thus shift the whole DMX signal on transmission. 8.5.7. DMX input offset The DMX input offset specifies the start channel Laserworld Showeditor uses for DMX input signal reception.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 8.6.1. Show used Softwarepaths This button opens a dialog box showing the file paths used for storing files and settings by Laserworld Showeditor. 8.6.2. Style of Color Selection Set the style of the color selection, which is displayed in the upper right corner of the Figure Editor Window: Color circle is selected as standard – this option provides a basic selection of colors. The full color spectrum can be chosen from with the Color Cube. (See chapter 6.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 8.6.6.3. Deactivate Mouse and Keyboard Deactivating Mouse and Keyboard during show play prevents the Standby to end due to unwanted mouse movement, however it does not allow to stop or pause the running show – it must run to it’s end. 8.6.6.4. Show Speedometer when screen is black The Speedometer displays information about the number of output actual frames in black-screen mode (e.g. if a show was started via “Play HQ”). This feature helps in determining output quality issues.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 8.7.2. Progress bar always on top Specifies if a progress bar shall stay on top during any processing (e.g. *.ild import etc.). If unchecked, the progress bar can be overlaid by other windows during the processing. 8.7.3. Quick-start on use of Play button in Timeline Editor This option controls if a quick start of the show at the very selected is possible position within the Timeline Editor by using the Play button. 8.7.4.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 94: Options Window, Tab “Optimize Output” These parameters apply to any output optimization changes: The optimization of the laser output is in real-time, meaning the changes are directly put out to the laser system (if connected) and can be seen live.. Each hardware output channel must be optimized individually. Color correction options may also be affected by optimization measures.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Polygons, rectangles, line start and line end are corner points. Circles have NO corner points, as well as waves have none. Depending on the setup, this setting applies to freehand drawings, too. The properties of points can be changed manually using the “wrench tool” (see chapter 6.3.6.). The value set as corner point repetition specifies the MINIMUM NUMBER OF REPETITIONS of corner points.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 http://www.showeditor.com/color-shift 8.8.9. Output Hardware As any output optimization setting applies per hardware, the desired output channel must be specified. This is done with the Hardware Output dropdown menu. Any settings refer to the hardware NUMBER, which can be selected here – not to the physical DAC (which can be the same, but doesn’t need to be).
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 show and, depending on the laser model, a mechanical shutter snaps into the beam path. This behaviour is safety related, but in most cases unwanted during a show, as there is quite some delay for the lasers to come on again after such an interruption. 2. Suppression of Stand-by beams during a show Depending on the laser system and it’s configuration a very dim laser “blind beam” can be visible if the scanners are not moving.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 8.9.1. Output-Hardware: As the settings for the geometric corrections are always applied per hardware device, it is essential to first select the hardware device the settings shall be applied to. 8.9.2. Mirror X/Y: Mirror the output for the x-axis / y-axis. 8.9.3. Swap X/Y: Swap the output for the x-axis / y-axis (inverts the output). 8.9.4. Displacement X/Y: These settings specifies the offset of the output for x-axis and y-axis 8.9.5.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 8.9.10. Output correction – alternative method The alternative method for the geometric correction allows for distorting the projection are with click-dragging the mouse. This method is very quick and especially suitable if settings don’t need to be 100% accurate. 8.10. Tab “Color Correction” The Color Correction is used for specifying the power levels per laser source color channel.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 The color correction dialog provides another method for the basic color correction setup. One main feature, however, is the possibility to make the color adjustments when running the laser sources in cw mode (full power). This dialog was used in former times for the colour correction and today it is not really necessary any more. Nevertheless it can be used to make a pre-setup of the colour correction anymore.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 can also be used to force the color brightness to a certain smaller range which can increase brightness (but negatively impacts on the fading behaviour). The Min scrollbars specify the minimum modulation voltage for the laser source, meaning the voltage where the laser source starts with it’s minimal output power (threshold). Set this scrollbar just slightly below this threshold to be able to blackout the laser source.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 8.11.2. Button “Reset only Windows Positions” This button resets the positions of all Showeditor windows to their standard ones. This is especially useful if the number or the resolution of screens has changed and not every window is in the visible area any more. 8.11.3. Button “Reset Skin colors” This button is used for resetting the individually colored / skinned Showeditor user interface to the default color scheme. Fig. 99: Options Window, Tab “Reset Settings” 8.12.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 8.12.4. Filename path of ini File The area “Filename of IniFile” shows the actual path to the active *.ini configuration settings file. As it is possible to use many configuration / settings files with Laserworld Showeditor, this helps in identifying the active one. 9. Timeline Editor Loop, Play, PlayHQ, Record, Back, Stop Timeline Pages A-P F-Key Events Effect Intensity 1 Track 19 Sub-Tracks / Effect Tracs Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 During playing or recording a show, each event is forwarded to the corresponding program window as well, so e.g. changes to the figures are pushed to the figure editor and changes to effects are pushed to the Effects Window. This behaviour allows for modular effect processing. The Timeline shows the progress of the show. If a *.wav file is used as music track, the volume level is displayed there.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 9.1.4. Effect Tool The Effect-Tool is used for creating effect events or for editing them. A click on the respective button activates the tool. With the tool opened, an area for inserting a new event can be selected, or one subtrack can be selected for editing with left mouse click (only works with effects subtracks, not with the figure track). The marked region is shown with a light yellow background. On releasing the mouse button, the effects window opens (Fig. 103).
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 9.1.4.3. Linear Time Raster between Min and Max Values This curve modification identifies the highest and lowest effect values and generates a linear path with using constant time intervals. The time intervals can be adjusted with a right mouse click on the button. 9.1.4.4. Linear Value Raster between Min and Max Values This curve modification identifies the highest and lowest values.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 9.1.6. Buttons Cut, Copy and Paste These buttons are self-explaining (See 6.3.2). 9.1.7. Buttons Undo/Redo A click on UNDO cancels the most recent changes. The state after the last use of editing features or recording is restored. The undo keeps up to 10 levels back. REDO does the opposite of UNDO.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 settings are set to the specified values. It is highly suggested to use the Play HQ button for real laser show displays. The Playlist uses the Play HQ features as well. 9.1.8.3. Button Record A click on this button starts the recording of events to the selected subtrack. Depending on the setup in the Timeline menu “Settings -> Start/Stop Laser output automatically” the laser is switched on automatically. The same applies for the DMX-output.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 figure subtrack. Each subtrack is the “container” for the respective effect intensity or figure. To record events on a subtrack, the very subtrack must be activated with a click on its caption. A green background marks the active subtrack. If several subtracks shall be recorded at the same time (e.g. all three intensities for RGB), hold the “Ctrl”-key and click-select the desired subtracks.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 9.1.9.3. Effect Intensity Input To record effects on the timeline, select the desired effects subtrack first. After hitting the record button it is possible to draw the effect intensity in the area on the very left of the Timeline Editor – see Fig. 107. It is possible to use the right mouse button to record the effect intensity as well: With this method, the effect levels are aligned to the horizontal grid. 9.1.9.4. Display of the Waveform If the sound file is in the *.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 After having selected the music file and specified the name for the show, the Figure Editor automatically opens the show folder and loads all available figures and frames to the Figure Table. The creation of the show can begin. If the show shall be programmed with using a *.wav-file, but the show shall run with an *.mp3-file later (due to file size), put both files into the show folder (they must have the same name, just a different file extension).
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 After editing the showpart, the changes have to be applied through Menu -> Showpart -> Apply. Store the showpart “figure” with a click on “Store” in the Figure Editor. The active show is buffered in the computer’s RAM. Therefore so not switch off the computer, or the edited data can get lost. 9.2.6. Clear Timeline Clicking this menu item completely empties the active show timeline by deleting all events. 9.2.7.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 RGB configuration. If this is not the case it can help to load the Pangolin Color Palette (See Chapter 6.19.4). After the import successfully finished, the original IDLA file is not needed any more, as it has completely been converted to the *.heb format. In case the import does not work properly, please refer to the Showeditor Support Forum. If the ILDA show is a multi-projector show, then the additional files (for the other projectors) must be imported manually.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 The dongle numbers entered in the left area of the dialog box are used for both ways. This is how the permission settings work: Only the “Dongle-No. enabled to give rights” can change the rights. If all numbers are set to 0, no rights are set – the show is open for everybody’s use. No protection is applied! It is only possible to change the permission settings, if the actually inserted license equals the Dongle-No. enabled to give rights.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 9.5. Menu: Tools 9.5.1. Beat Counter Fig. 111: Timeline Editor: Menu Tools The Beat Counter (also see Chapter 6.18.7) is a tool for identifying the beats per minute (bpm, the “speed”) of the music file. It is very helpful to set the appropriate frame-rate of multi-frame figures. A click on the menu item opens a dialog (self explaining) 9.5.2. Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Mouse Grid” is used for activating the grid. This requires a previously created grid. This has to be done manually, as an automated creation does not make sense. 9.5.6. Create Grid This menu item is used for creating a time-grid to align events to. A dialog opens, providing all options and instructions on how to set up the grid. Grid lines are entered using the “Space” Key. 9.6. Menu: Settings 9.6.1.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 9.7. Menu: Video 9.7.1. Window On/Off This menu item opens the video preview window, which only makes sense if a video file is selected as media file for the show. All video file formats that can be used in the Windows Media Player as standard are supported. 9.7.2. Correct Aspect Ratio Fig. 114: Timeline Editor: Menu Video Automatically corrects the aspect ratio of the video file. Using only this feature may lead to the video size exceeding the screen size. 9.7.3.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 A click on this menu item starts the playback of the shows of the Play List (See Chapter 10 for details). Fig. 116: Timeline Editor: Menu Play-List/Display opens the Play List 9.9. Menu: Info.txt The info.txt-file is created by the show programmer and contains general information about the show, the music file and the show programmer. This information usually includes the name of the Fig. 117: Timeline Editor: Menu author, the song file, the used or suggested Info.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 9.10. Menu: Countdown 9.10.1. Start This menu item is used for starting a show by countdown. The countdown is routed depending on the settings in Options -> Hardware When clicking on “Start”, a dialog box opens asking for the start time to be set. After a click on OK the countdown starts. The countdown can be interrupted by switching the laser off (Figure Editor -> Button Laser OFF). Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 9.11. Menu: Showpath Fig. 120: Menu Showpath If a show is loaded and active, the file path to the show files is displayed right next to the Countdown menu item. 10. The Playlist The Play List is the playback feature of Laserworld Showeditor. It allows for playing back existing laser shows. These shows can be loaded to the Play List, arranged in their order and several configurations can be set.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 10.6. Vertical Green Arrows The green up / down arrow buttons can be used for arranging the play order of the shows in the Play List. 10.7. The List area The List area shows all shows in the Play List in the arranged order. The shows can be directly selected. A double click starts the show play of the selected show. After the play of a show that has been started with direct double click, the output is stopped – the consecutive shows are not played.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 10.14. Load Loads an existing Play List. 10.15. Save Saves the active Play List. 10.16. Create Play List from Folder This feature allows for easy play list creation directly from the file structure: With selecting a certain folder on the hard disc, all shows in this folder and the subfolders are automatically added to the Play List. Play order can be arranged afterwards, using the green up/down arrows. Fig. 121: Play List, Create Play List from folder 11.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Intelligent DMX (only for users with software license) – for control of more complex fixtures Fig. 122: The DMX-Editor 11.1. EasyDMX – Fader Control The use of the EasyDMX-Editor (Fig. 122) is similar to the Figure Editor, but for the control of DMX devices “macros” are created (comparable to the figures in the laser shows). Each DMX macro consists of one or more steps (“scenes”) and can be assigned to a key (similar to the figures in the Figure Editor).
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 been clicked. The red color indicates the controls that have not yet been used for the macro in active edit mode. All red marked channels do not change the value of the respective DMX channel when calling the macro. If a scrollbar is set to a value, the red box color changes to green and the specified DMX value is put out. The visualization of active and non-active channels through color code is made to avoid any unwanted behaviour of the macros later.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 11.3. Edit Steps 11.3.1. Buttons: Cut/ Copy/ Paste With these buttons macro steps can be cut, copied and pasted. Fig. 125: DMX-Editor: Edit Step 11.3.2. Button: Create new DMX-Macro Use this button to create a new macro. 11.4. File 11.4.1. Buttons: Save/ Save as/ Save all With these buttons macros can be saved, saved with a different name or all present macros can be saved with one click. 11.4.2. Button: Close Window A click on this button closes the DMX window. Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 In case there is no DMX-Output, the macro “Note Off Figur ***Aus***” becomes activated automatically. 11.5.4. Button: DMX Monitor The DMX Monitor opens up in a little window displaying the active values of the 512 output channels. The values automatically update if the DMX output is switched on. 11.5.5. Link DMX Macros to Laser Figures DMX macros can be linked to laser figures. The linking is done in the Figure Table of the Figure Editor (right click on the laser figure).
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 on/off), but then the NOTE OFF macro is called, which sets all DMX-channels to 0. This may be an unwanted effect if intelligent lighting is used. To only set one Channel to 0, e.g. the channel for brightness, it is necessary to write a special macro doing exactly that. 11.6. “Intelligent”-DMX A click on the button “Use intelligent DMX devices” changes the interface of the DMX-window (Fig.134) Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 11.6.2. Label The label allows for giving names to the very channels. This makes it easier to identify them later. 11.6.3. Dimmable This column can be set to true or false per channel. It specifies if the very channel shall be considered a dimmer channel, meaning that this very channel can be dimmed using intermediate macro steps. If set to “false”, the channels values always immediately change to their nominal values. This e.g.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 11.6.7. Use of several identical DMX-devices with different addresses To use several identical DMX units it is necessary to create the profile for one device first. For the other, identical devices it is only necessary to copy the existing profile and simply change the DMX start address (and probably the name as well). Then save the profiles for the devices, using different filenames.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 11.6.11. Selection of the DMX devices for creating macros Select a device from the list by clicking on it, is is the marked as “active” (the device name is displayed in bold letters). The functions of the very device are shown in the right part of the window. 11.6.12. Selection of multiple DMX Devices for creating macros It is possible to select several devices at the same time for macro editing. Select the first device and hold the Ctrl-Key while selecting the other ones.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 11.6.17. Intelligent DMX and License Intelligent DMX is only available in fully licensed Laserworld Showeditor software versions. 11.6.18. Menu of the DMX-Window The menu of the DMX window only holds items that are directly accessible through buttons as well. Please see the description for the very button for details. 12.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 There are 19 channels in total per track (DMX-out is not supported in this case). Fig. 136: DMX assignments (Options, Midi-DMX, DMX Input Routing) 12.1.2. Live Window DMX Control The remote control of the Live Window over DMX is very easy. Like described in the previous chapter for the Timeline control, it is possible to call the figures over DMX if a DMX value has been properly assigned. It is also possible to change the effect settings of the active figure trough DMX.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 12.2. Control via MIDI The Showeditor remote control over MIDI works similar to the one over DMX. 12.2.1. Setup of MIDI Input Routing for the Live Window The general setup of the MIDI input routing can be accessed through in Options -> DMX -> Setup MIDI input routing. (See Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 The MIDI Input routing specifies, which MIDI values are used to control which feature. Every MIDI transmission contains 4 different data types: MIDI channel, MIDI message No., Data 1 and Data 2. To use a MIDI value for the control of an event (e.g. push a key) the “parameters” must be matched to the incoming MIDI command in order to be recognized properly. 12.2.2.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 With deactivating “Routing like record selection” is is possible to make much more detailed adjustments to the MIDI routing configuration, however this is not requires in most cases. 12.2.3. MIDI Controller Presets / Profiles As every MIDI controller has different features and thus sends it’s signals in a different way, it is possible to configure Laserworld Showeditor to being controllable through different controllers.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 The live laser show control window provides the possibility to play a laser show live to music etc. by using preset figures, which are assigned to keys and can then either be played with the computer keyboard by pressing the respective key, by clicking the desired buttons with the mouse or by using an external DMX or MIDI controller. All settings that have been made to a respective key are stored, so become active again on recalling that key.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 141: Key options 13.2.1. Use Key Up Event (Flash) If this option is checked, the selected figure is only displayed as long as the respective key is pressed. On releasing the key, the figure output switches off. This usually only works on keyboard control. It does not work on DMX or touchscreen control. 13.2.2. Switch off unused tracks If this option is checked, all figures on other tracks than the active are switched off. 13.2.3.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 13.2.7. Selection of Effects and intensity The Showeditor Live Window supports many effects that can be controlled over scrollbars/faders. There are five faders available and each one can be assigned effects to, which is done with selecting the respective effects feature from the dropdown list above the fader. Fig. 142: Effect scrollbars and dropdown lists The control of the faders can be (above) done by mouse click, over touchscreen or through DMX or MIDI remote control.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 14. Important Hints 14.1. Further Tutorials Troubleshooting on the website, Tutorial videos, On http://www.showeditor.com/tutorials there is a section with many tutorial, tips and tricks. In addition to that, there is a FAQ section (http://www.showeditor.com) that provides additional help on many questions. Tutorial videos are available on the Showeditor website as well, see the Tutorials section. 14.2.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 15. Index —*— *.ai ...............................................................................................................................................71 *.bin .................................................................................................................................... 95, 108 *.bmp ..........................................................................................................................................71 *.heb ....................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Button Clear Device-List ....................................................................................................... 144 Button Complete Reset ...........................................................................................................68 Button DMX ................................................................................................................................67 Button Effects ...............................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 —D— DAC ..................................................... 12, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 38, 62, 63, 68, 95, 106, 110, 113 Digital-Analogue-Converters ..............................................................................................23 Hardware interface ...................................................................................23, 24, 38, 68, 136 Interface ........................... 12, 15, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 67, 103, 105, 110, 116, 139, 141, 148 Daisy-chain ..
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fade out .....................................................................................................................................86 Faders ..................................................................................... 19, 26, 37, 38, 136, 139, 142, 152 Figure Table........................................ 32, 42, 46, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 76, 80, 84, 125, 140, 145 Figure-Editor .......................................................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 —K— Key assignment ............................................................................................33, 46, 76, 126, 151 Keyboard layout .................................................................................................................... 152 —L— LAN ..................................................................................................................................... 12, 104 Language..........................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Morphing Polygons ...................................................................................................................60 Morphing Text ............................................................................................................... 50, 91, 92 Move all events in timeline................................................................................................... 129 Move events after current time position .........................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Playlist Load ...............................................................................................................................69 Point properties .......................................................................................................... 67, 83, 109 Polygon .......................................................................................................................... 29, 52, 60 Poly-Line......................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Serial number ...................................................................................................................... 14, 23 Show Blanked Lines ..................................................................................................................75 Show Control Buttons ............................................................................................................ 121 Show file..................................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Uninstall .......................................................................................................................................14 Update........................................................................................................................................13 Use of Intelligent DMX-Devices ............................................................................................ 144 Use Soft Color .................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 16. Figure Index Fig. 1: Setup-Wizard of Laserworld Showeditor. ........................................................................... 13 Fig. 2: Menu “Options/Hardware” for the selection of the hardware interfaces (DAC). Up to 16 interfaces can be used. The shown setup is useful for a simulation of a 1 + 2 projector show (typical setup). ............................................................................................................................. 15 Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 30: The Live Window ................................................................................................................... 43 Fig. 31: Figure Editor: Main Window of Laserworld Showeditor .............................................. 44 Fig. 32: Figure Editor: Drawing features...................................................................................... 45 Fig.
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 61: Figure Editor: Background image ................................................................................. 71 Fig. 62: Menu Edit .......................................................................................................................... 73 Fig. 63: Menu Edit/Color change. Dialog to change colors of points. ................................. 73 Fig. 64: Menu Figure Assignment ......................................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 97: Dialog Optimize Output / button Color Correction ................................................. 113 Fig. 98: Options Window, Extended Color Correction .................................................................. 113 Fig. 99: Options Window, Tab “Reset Settings” ............................................................................... 115 Fig. 100: General buttons of the Options Window .......................................................................
Laserworld Showeditor 2015 Fig. 134: Display of DMX-value of a figure....................................................................................... 144 Fig. 135: Figure track number“0” – channel 1 for DMX ................................................................. 144 Fig. 136: DMX assignments (Options, Midi-DMX, DMX Input Routing) ......................................... 145 Fig. 137: Live Window: MIDI-Input routing (assignment for Live Window) .................................. 146 Fig.
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