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I've coded a small tool called LDS Catalog Mover.
With this tool you can open multiple .CAT files from LDS and copy/move frames between them.
Maybe there are some LDS users who find this useful...
Screenshot & download: Click here
If you find bugs or have ideas to improve the tool, just PM me...
Thomas
wow I could of used that last week. Cool!
Thanks
THX!!! :)
Christian
how about converting shows to .lds or frames to .ild ? I dont know IF this is possible?
Nice soft u programmed
My Lasergraph DSP and LDS shares the same file types. The only problem that cat is a directory (xxxx.CATL) on DSP, when on LDS it's a file. I wish there was a program to extract all .pic from LDS cat to directory without opening them up one by one and then save as.
Picture Editor/Library....select frame range/Export to/ ILDAQuote:
Originally Posted by cruch
New version 0.2...
added:
- german language
- an option "Goto last used frame"
See link in the first post for download...
@Dr Laser:
I've already heard that DSP and LDS share the PIC file format, but I didn't know that the DSP has the library in a directory instead of a CAT file...
Maybe I add the option to save the cat file as series of .pic files...
How are the files labeled? Just the number of the frame?
Maybe you can PM me...
Thomas
Lasergraph doesn't have one file catalogs at all. It uses regular directories named SOMETHING.CATL and this goes for all catalogs including fonts which are named ARIAL.CATL or WAHTEVER.CATL. Structure of font directory is exactly the same as for LDS. #lo_A.pic #up_D.pic etc. Internal structure of graphic catalog is: 00000.pic to 99999.pic but this is only for sequential animations so animEd (DSP animator) will place them in order. They can be called anything.pic whatever.pic ball.pic just as long as they are all inside of directory with extension .CATL or .CAT.
From DSP manual
A catalog (*.CATL) is a specific directory of the Lasergraph DSP. It is required whenever individual pictures that have been created in the picture editor are to be stored.
Generally, a catalog contains all of the pictures of a show. A show can be put together out of pictures from a variety of catalogs.
All catalogs containing pictures for a given show must be saved in the same directory as the show itself, as the program will only seek the catalogs and associated pictures in that directory.
Other really usable option will be to import a directory full of .pic and then ability to save is as a .cat or export it as a directory full of .pic. There are many other things could be done. Like lds ilda import export. Palette converter.
This is the "cherry on the pie" that was missing ! :cool:
Thanks for you input Dr Laser, I will implement the catalog functions in the future, how fast depends on my spare time... ;)
I've also thought about matching the colors when copying frames between catalogs with different palettes. Is this what you meant with Palette Converter?
Or converting DSP/whatever palettes to LDS and vice versa ?
There a lot of palettes for different systems. For example if you buy a TraceIt from Pangolin (really good tracing program and they will do it as a stand alone for really reasonable price ~$250) it's designed for Pangolin and standard ILDA palette. When you will bring it to LDS or Lasergraph standard palette is different. So the colors will be off. (And it's a BIG pain to adjust them). You load pictures into the first row and select a pangolin as a palette and boom....all colors are right. You open the second row select for example standard LDS palette and drug and drop the frame from pangolin palette to LDS palette and oh magic... colors are right.
It's just an idea.
And thanx for the software. Even in this stage it's usable... even for me.
Hey wow this totally saved me some time yesterday
Thanks Man!
Again a new version ;)
New features:
- ability to save all frames from a CAT file into PIC files
- can load a complete directory of PIC files and create a CAT file
- import/export single frames as PIC files
See first post for downloading...
Aaaaaaa....can't wait to give it a try....!!!
Bugs.
Overwrite or save before exit file dialog box:Yes/No/Cancel options are always in German.
Directory import works only partially. Only opens LDS made files located in PIC folder. Any original work it doesn't import. But importing *.pic one by one works fine.
Ok, I will fix this next weekend... (I'm not at home this week)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Laser
Hmm, can't reproduce this. I can import PIC files located everywhere. But I have only LDS PIC files. Are the files you try to import made by DSP ? If yes, could you send me some?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Laser
It's not only for Lasergrah pic but also for any original work made with LDS Picture Editor. When you open a directory for import it shows blank bank of frames just like you click NEW or accidentally clicked on Directory without any pic files in it. You right click on any frame in the frame bank and click on import as pic file. It imports pic from the same directory no problem. But only one by one.
Here is a simple PIC directory.
http://laseremitter.com/hold/GDANCE.rar
I've found the bug:
It's a incompatibilty between Win2000 and WinXP, it's fixed now (I'm still using Win2000 here...)
The dialog language is fixed, too.
Excellent tool now.
Can't even suggest any new options.:rolleyes:
again a new version of the tool:
- support for the upcoming RGB CAT file format of LDS 2008
- can do now color matching between different palettes
- viewer for palettes files
- option to display canvasrgb or rgb colors of palette based CAT files
Thomas
How palette files are created.? Are they based on LDS editor palettes? Can't make them work for some reason.
yes, they are LDS palettes...
What type of palettes is the Lasergraph DSP using?
New version 0.4a
The old version did still display version 0.3a in the about dialog...
Now the app saves & restores the window positions.
@DrLaser:
Maybe I didn't get you right: Palette files are only displayed, you can't edit them (yet)...
No you were right first time. I tried to copy LDS palettes into specific folder and point your converter to it but it's only showing "standard" palette and can't see any other ones. Do you have any working palettes beside "standard"? Also I noticed that "standard palette is based on 11 colors and not 16.Quote:
Originally Posted by TL
Lasergraph is using .PAL but I'm not sure if it's the the same ones. Maybe structure is different. I have to check. I have recreation of standard Lasergraph palette for LDS/Phoenix. I can upload it.
Thanks to DrLaser the bug is found.
A new version is online..
It works!!... If I find some other strange behaviors I'll post them.
Fixed another bug, which prevented frames consisting only of points to be displayed properly...