My simple software for laser shows

Hi,
I develop simple software for laser shows as part of my hobby. It is not usable now for professional use but you can download and test it. I'm not sure will it be paid or free in future but now it is free of course :)

It's site is http://laserroom.org/

Features are:

• Import of ILDA files
• The export of project into ILDA file
• Support or DAC controllers: RIYA, Audio card controller
• Undo/redo
• Text support

Planned features:

• Audio for show
• Laser controllers support

Screen-shot of main window:
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If you will see this window during testing of the program, please press "Send report".
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It will give me ability to understand the reason of the bug and to fix it.

Any suggestions are welcome

tag........ so i remember to download this and give it a try. At work using phone... so once home ill give this a go. Thankyou for sharing

ANy chance of adding Dr Lava's dac file so that a bunch of them could be supported really would like to try on my Riya,

polishedball, do you mean when I do support of RIYA controllers in my software?

http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/...brary-released

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Originally Posted by drlava

In honor of programmer's day, I'm releasing a universal DAC interface library for Free to developers of free and open source software.

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I don't sure my software will be free. So I can't use universal DAC.

Now it supports RIYA Multibus controllers! My future plan is to make support of vector text

The vector text is also done! Software now used TTF fonts to draw vector text.
Not bad I think:
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Panel to configure text properties:
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Next feature will be support of audio files for laser show

I've been trying it out for a couple of days now and so far I like it. I don't currently have a sound card dac/correction amp, so I haven't tried with the projector yet. I'm using the open source LaserShark DAC. Any chance you could implement a driver for it? Or if you have an API I could use I'll create it myself.

Anyone else been using there Lasershark with software other than Jack and Openlase?

Does LaserShark DAC work on MS Windows?

Yes I think it will. It uses LibUSB and JACK (an audio device interconnect library). You "should" be able to take the code out of the interface code that interfaces LibUSB to JACK and use that.

See here: http://macpod.net/electronics/lasershark/lasershark.php

cfavreau, it sounds too complex for me :(

PS: which DACs are most popular for laser projectors? I plan to add support for theirs in the first place.

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Originally Posted by ArtDen

cfavreau, it sounds too complex for me :(

PS: which DACs are most popular for laser projectors? I plan to add support for theirs in the first place.

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- Pangolin QM2000 (Drlava's library supports this one, pangolin has an SDK for that too but I believe it requires you to own a QM2000 to obtain it)
- Moncha + moncha.net(not sure if it is supported by drlava's library)
- Easylase (not sure about the popularity of this one).

Basicly if you implement drlava's SDK you automatically be able to use an array of controllers.

IIRC, drlava's library supports Moncha and Fiesta.
Easylase used to be popular (I have one), so if you can please add support!
Recently, the Etherdream became the preferred choice for hobbyists due to its price (a bit cheaper than an Easylase) and ethernet capabilities. The SDK is open so it shouldn't be too hard to add support.

You can also look at hints of code in LFI Player if you can find the source code ... it has code for Easy Laser and QM2000 and a few others.

ArtDen, what programming language are coding in?

csmn, I use С++

dream, I plan to make "lite" version of my software free but not open source. Other versions will be paid. So I will not publish my sources.

This looks like a quite nice piece of software, you should contact drlava, but I believe that the current view on using OSS software from within a closed source piece of software is that so long as you do not incorporate drlava's code into your program, but rather link the .dll he provides it is allowed, and would allow you to support many more dacs (etherdream, etc).

That said, I will continue using LFI player and LaserBoy until someone does release a better OSS player (the new openlase stuff is getting to be quite impressive in the mean time!).

Does your program feature a FB3 controller and can work with two lasers?

No. I only plan it in future versions.

Wow!
Congratulations This is a very nice software,i've tried it the last night.
Unfortunately i have no USB audio with correction amps only an integrated 2ch notebook audio(in theory it works with Your software) and FB3QS.

Good Day!

Its Perfect Laser software!
The future will be to put MP3 music ?

THX!

Peter

I used this software with my projector. I like the simplicity of the software and menus, it was very easy to browse for and open an ILDA file, configure my DAC (Soundcard), and project an image.
The image quality (especially the TTF text) was not as high quality as other software packages on my same hardware.
However, please note that I am using cheaper 20kpps galvos, therefore I think good optimization to the scanners (galvos) is important for my setup.
You really seem to be on the right track, please don't be discouraged by this post. Sometime this year I'll upgrade my galvos and try again.

-Jason

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Kalmito,
I planned music in distant future :)

JasonB,
LaserRoom doesn't have optimization feature yet. I will buy cheap laser projector soon and write code for optimization

Perfect ArtDen! I wait the future version! When are U planning next version ?

Absolutely Brilliant. ive spent all day trying to find free software to simply scroll text into a old style .ild file. This does exactly what I want!

Spoke too soon, none of the created files play on my laser. Its a 7 colour RGB laser with Aurora SD card player and all I get on the played files is a jumble of lines. Tried both show export options but neither work. Anyone have any suggestions.

EDIT,

Tried converting the ILD file to ILD V0 (With ILD Viewer) and it then played, but there was no blanking happening. Any chance of exporting to Format 0. This software is exactly what I need but the files cant be used in my laser. =(

What happened to the website, its gone? Is this program still available? Anyone have a copy they can Dropbox me?

Website is still up and functioning...

Adam

Hi, I'd really like to try this software, but it appears that the site has been shut down. Any chance you could post it here or send it to me? Thx. It looks great.

The site is down now yet I just downloaded a copy of it from wayback :)

http://web.archive.org/web/201405171...laserroom.org/

Rondo thank you for mentioning LWave.. Welcome to PL! :)

:cat:
Just bumping this thread since soft is FREE and last link still works OK. >:)
Cheers :)

It really begs for a frame drawing tool though. :)

not sure how to get this to pick up my etherdream, any help?