For example you can create an envelope for intensity, and draw a little slope at the start or end of an object on the timeline, and you'll have created a fade in/out effect.
Basically you can vary some property of the laser projection freely by drawing a graph describing the change of the property over time.
They are effect automation layers, if you have used some video editing software like Sony Vegas you are probably familiar with the concept. The largest new feature are envelopes in the timeline mode.
Better updater, from now on the program will automatically download and launch the installer for the next version when it is released (if you want it to), so you don't have to manually download. Note that you need to use CTRL + click to select, the up/down arrow keys no longer work. You can now select and manipulate multiple objects at once. See the screenshot below for some examples. You can insert lots of different symbols including western, greek, cyrillic and japanese glyphs, and also math, weather, music notation etc. NB: Please uninstall the last version of ildaGen before installing LasershowGen to avoid multiple instances of the program on your computer.
Sorry about that! The new name, (though admittedly bland, I didn't have that much time to think of a new one ) probably fits a bit better too as I hope to make the program a full laser show solution some time, not just an ILDA file creator. I should have realized sooner that I'm not actually allowed to use the name ILDA in my product, which I was informed of when I submitted the program to the ILDA awards. Please note that the program have changed name, from ildaGen to LasershowGen. Take a look at the updated screenshot in the first post of the thread for a quick look! This is very basic though, it is still recommended to run the files through something with better post-processing if your DAC/show software doesn't do it automatically. Simple scanner optimization at export, right click on the export button to choose between minimized and optimized output. Interface design refresh, a better look and layout.
You can also manually set the anchor point for rotation and scaling, meaning the manipulations doesn't necessarily have to be symmetrical and uniform. You can now move, scale and rotate selected objects super intuitively by just clicking and dragging them with the cursor.
This is a big improvement over the earlier slider-based movement tool. Better object manipulation tool with rotation, scaling and displacement
It's potentially a very powerful tool, but it might take some studying and getting used to. I haven't used it so I'm not sure, but I believe this is kind of similar to some of LSX's features. You can now write your own mathematical functions to describe the objects in the ILDA file. Arbitrary function modes for shape, coloring and blanking Also it looks a bit better with a new layout. New version today, 0.9.7, and I am pretty happy with this release! In addition to two new major features, I have done a lot of tweaking and bug fixing, and I dare say it's an overall solid improvement.