LasershowGen now with free edition!

Check out the new dedicated page with information and download links: https://bitlasers.com/lasershowgen-sw/


EDIT 2019-06-18: New in LSG: Live mode! Available in the free version

Just wanted to share that I have now split LasershowGen into two editions, Free and Full. The free edition does not have access to the timeline mode for more complex shows, and has a max number of ILD file exports per day of 10. But this should be enough for many people, who now can easily make ILD files or output ILD files to DACs for free!
So take a look and tell me what you think, even if you primarily use other software you might find some effects are easier to create in LasershowGen, and you no longer have anything to lose by checking it out! :)

The full edition has increased $5 in price, to $29.90. All existing licenses counts as LasershowGen Full of course.

Thanx Grix.
This is super generous of you.

A big contribution to the laserscene.

Espen

Gitle,
I love using your software; and regularly check back for updates + new features.
Keep up the great work.

All the best,
Dan

Just released an update 1.4.0. It has new optimization code, it's much faster and better, but you might need to re-tune the optimization parameters in the settings page as some of their effects have changed a little bit.

Also it has support for the LaserDock by wicked lasers. And many more small tweaks and bug fixes.

I am having issues getting this to work with my sound card dac. The dac works with Spaghetti, LFI, LaserBoy waves. LSG detects the dac but it only sends data to the galvos (lasers do not come on). I have tried copying the DLL and INI file from LFI, same thing, I have tried renaming EzAudDac.dll EasyLase.dll, still detects it properly, same issue.

Just wanted to give a heads up that in the newest update LSG has a "live mode", where you can trigger files to play on the fly. Nothing fancy but good for live shows like for DJs etc. It's available in the free version too (but with max 10 loaded files).

I just gave the live mode a try and found it to be pretty neat. Thanks! It is really great to see open source and source available laser show software picking up steam

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I just gave the live mode a try and found it to be pretty neat. Thanks! It is really great to see open source and source available laser show software picking up steam

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Thanks! Always looking for ways to improve it too, so if you think of any missing features that would be useful, don't hesitate to let me know.

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Thanks! Always looking for ways to improve it too, so if you think of any missing features that would be useful, don't hesitate to let me know.

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IDN output?

James

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IDN output?

James

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Yes! +1 *warn:)

^{Ah yes, good idea, I've had that on the backburner for a while. Biggest problem was that I didn't have hardware to test it on, and the DexLogic units are a bit expensive for a budget hobby developer like me. Is there a program for loaning them for development purposes, or a software emulator, or maybe someone with hardware would be willing to beta test software for me after I implement it?}

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^{Ah yes, good idea, I've had that on the backburner for a while. Biggest problem was that I didn't have hardware to test it on, and the DexLogic units are a bit expensive for a budget hobby developer like me. Is there a program for loaning them for development purposes, or a software emulator, or maybe someone with hardware would be willing to beta test software for me after I implement it?}

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yes there are freely available programs that allow you to test out IDN without having the hardware, such as an IDN viewer etc. Dirk posted some links on another IDN post on here, to Github, with the software and sourcecode etc. The university of Bonn have also released some tools to help.

It wouldn’t be too difficult to implement a lower cost DAC, for everyday use that isn’t the kind of reference design of the Dexlogic StageFeeds and StageMate.

James

LSG now supports IDN DACs as requested :)

Hey this software looks great! But i'm having some trouble creating an ilda file from the software. I want to be able to draw shapes in the editor then export a single frame ILDA file. But when I try putting it on to an sdcard and into my laser it doesn't work. It either just displays a single red point, or it will display the last frame of the last ilda file that was playing.The laser is a cheapish chinese one but should work fine as i've played all kinds of ilda files that i've downloaded from the internet on it.

I'm just using the in built sd card option from the menu in the laser, not a DAC or any kind of software for playback.

I've tried both the online version of LSG and the mac version.

Any ideas what i'm doing wrong?

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Hey this software looks great! But i'm having some trouble creating an ilda file from the software. I want to be able to draw shapes in the editor then export a single frame ILDA file. But when I try putting it on to an sdcard and into my laser it doesn't work. It either just displays a single red point, or it will display the last frame of the last ilda file that was playing.The laser is a cheapish chinese one but should work fine as i've played all kinds of ilda files that i've downloaded from the internet on it.

I'm just using the in built sd card option from the menu in the laser, not a DAC or any kind of software for playback.

I've tried both the online version of LSG and the mac version.

Any ideas what i'm doing wrong?

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Many SD card readers only support format 0 ILD files, make sure you are exporting that instead of format 5 (look for the check box in the settings page)

Also note that format 0 is 3D information. It is very common for files to be format 1, 2D. There is a setting in LaserBoy that lets you save everything as format 0.

ok thanks, setting type 0 works. Some weird blanking and laser movements still but will work it out.

thanks again.

LaserShowGen is now available on Linux, as a beta version. Might still be buggy but most features have been tested to work. Supports Helios, LaserDock for sure. IDN works-ish but is glitchy. Etherdream should work in theory but I haven't tested.

This is great news! As far as I know this is the first timeline oriented laser show software which runs under linux *nyancat

I don't have access to my dacs at the moment, but hopefully I will have a chance to try this out in next weekend (laserdock/etherdream).

So far I did mange to get it to run under ubuntu 18.04. I had to first install curl (not sure why, maybe related to the dacs?) but it started right up after that was resolved. Only bug I have identified so far is that I can't paste into the registration key window (tried right click, ctrl-v, shift-ctrl-v, shift-ctrl-insert etc) so I had to type all 40-odd characters in manually.

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This is great news! As far as I know this is the first timeline oriented laser show software which runs under linux *nyancat

I don't have access to my dacs at the moment, but hopefully I will have a chance to try this out in next weekend (laserdock/etherdream).

So far I did mange to get it to run under ubuntu 18.04. I had to first install curl (not sure why, maybe related to the dacs?) but it started right up after that was resolved. Only bug I have identified so far is that I can't paste into the registration key window (tried right click, ctrl-v, shift-ctrl-v, shift-ctrl-insert etc) so I had to type all 40-odd characters in manually.

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Cool, let me know if you find any problems. I'm aware of the copy/paste issue, so I will try to fix this for the next version. I agree it's very annoying :)

Hi, thank you for your post. I need to externally (remotely) (not from the LaserShowGen software) run the laser show and pause it. On/Off laser maybe. I need to do it from some physical port like USB. In LSX it is possible to do from Midi port. I can probably use USB relay to turn on and off the laser power, but affraid to spoil it fast.
How about LaseShowGen? Maybe you know such option? Any ideas? Thank you

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Hi, thank you for your post. I need to externally (remotely) (not from the LaserShowGen software) run the laser show and pause it. On/Off laser maybe. I need to do it from some physical port like USB. In LSX it is possible to do from Midi port. I can probably use USB relay to turn on and off the laser power, but affraid to spoil it fast.
How about LaseShowGen? Maybe you know such option? Any ideas? Thank you

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There's no way to externally communicate with LSG other than to use keyboard buttons. So you could have a USB keyboard, or custom device that acts as a keyboard, to send button presses that starts, stops, pauses playback etc. There are also programs that can translate MIDI signals into such keyboard presses.

Mny thanks to your explanation. It helped a lot. All the best in all your endeavours.

We can generate such codes. Thank you

Ok, from the latest manual I found, that this is Tab button. And it works. Thanks again

Hi guys, the newest version of LaserShowGen Pro software includes this show by Jarek Kral! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gfA6702cmA


LSG can export to .ILD if you want the raw files.

Free version is very apreciated so people can check the software out too before they buy!
I know im a beyond user (and it's what ill keep using) but this is great for things like the laserdock (without modification of an ilda port)

First observation:
Turning optimization in dac settings off doesn't allow you to set the lasers scanrate.. what scanrate does it run at?? I noticed setting fps results in changed scanrate behaviour but its a bit unclear ;)

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First observation:
Turning optimization in dac settings off doesn't allow you to set the lasers scanrate.. what scanrate does it run at?? I noticed setting fps results in changed scanrate behaviour but its a bit unclear ;)

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For unoptimized files, LSG plays them with a constant frame rate rather than point rate. The point rate is set by the equation of frame rate times the number of points in the frame. F.ex. if you set FPS to 30, and the current frame is 1000 points long, it will play at 30*1000 = 30 000 pps.

This is a bit different than how some other programs optimize the files with a variable frame rate and constant point rate instead. Once you find the right FPS it would look the same for ILDA files with only one frame, or with animations where each frame has a similar amount of points. Files that was optimized with a very variable frame size might experience some problems like flickering or warping, though. I have been planning on adding a way of playing with a constant point rate instead of frame rate in LSG eventually, but haven't gotten around to it.

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Check out the new dedicated page with information and download links: https://bitlasers.com/lasershowgen-sw/

EDIT 2019-06-18: New in LSG: Live mode! Available in the free version

Just wanted to share that I have now split LasershowGen into two editions, Free and Full. The free edition does not have access to the timeline mode for more complex shows, and has a max number of ILD file exports per day of 10. But this should be enough for many people, who now can easily make ILD files or output ILD files to DACs for free!
So take a look and tell me what you think, even if you primarily use other software you might find some effects are easier to create in LasershowGen, and you no longer have anything to lose by checking it out! :)

The full edition has increased $5 in price, to $29.90. All existing licenses counts as LasershowGen Full of course.

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Good Day! Is it possible to install your LSG to a 32bit old Laptop Fujitsu-Siemens? I tried and failed. Thank you

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Good Day! Is it possible to install your LSG to a 32bit old Laptop Fujitsu-Siemens? I tried and failed. Thank you

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Hi,
I don't see why it wouldn't work. Can you elaborate on what exactly happened? Did you get an error message? Did it fail during install or during launch?

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Hi,
I don't see why it wouldn't work. Can you elaborate on what exactly happened? Did you get an error message? Did it fail during install or during launch?

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Thank you very much for the reply. It did get installed the LSG, but it did not launch. No error message, just does not launch. I think I now know the reason - very little RAM - 1Gb.
I have ordered two Ram sticks on ebay totally 4Gb. I will try again after I extend RAM. Thank you again for your kind responsiveness.

Hi. My LasershowGen pro can't insert text in Russian, is that even possible?

It is technically possible to create a special version of one of the ilda font files that would work with Cyrillic in the extended ascii character range. I'm not sure how you would key it in to the application though. You see it works by using the numeric value of the ascii character to index the font frame set to get the right glyph.

There are also some cyrillic individual letters in the Hershey font set, though these may not be very optimized for laser displays.

Version 1.11.0 of LaserShowGen has been released, with some highly requested features, such as basic MIDI controller support. You can now bind MIDI keys instead of just keyboard buttons to trigger animations in the grid and timeline mode, as well as knobs to tweak the adjustment sliders.
Another notable feature is support for UTF-8 LaserBoy fonts in the text tool, so that you can write many non-english symbols. The text tool has also been made more user friendly in general.

And since it has been so long since I last posted in this thread, there has been countless bug fixes and smaller improvements since then, too.