I'm happy to announce the ILD SÔS (pronounced sauce) is now available here. Here's a little introduction:
It contains a lot of techniques I have worked on in the art of frame optimization, and its goal is to generate and facilitate the easy transfer and use of ILDA files for laser shows.
ILD SÔS optimization routines are intended to allow the use of any speed scanner with any speed and type of DAC.
What it is:
- An ILDA file format converter tool
- An LDS/Phoenix CAT format importer/converter
- A Lasergraph/LDS PIC importer/converter
- Animation previewer
- A tool that can produce very good non-shaded 3D animation when used with 3D Studio Max and the Illustrate! plug-in
- A tool that can also produce shaded 3D animation (shadows, etc) with the above pair
- An optimization tool for very good pathfinding, data reduction, and point optimization for all file types
- An animation tool that will calculate distributed fill points to keep a steady framerate
- A palette upconversion and downconversion tool for compatibility
- pal (Anarchy and LDS format) exporter for color compatibility conversion
- Standards compliant
What it is not:
- A frame editor
- Hard to use
- Expensive
- A generic DXF importer (DXF R12 and less only currently supported)
ILD SÔS is not supposed to compete with other professional 3D laser show creation software, it IS intended to bring this capability down (closer) to hobbyist price level.
ILD SÔS goes great with Spaghetti.
ILD SÔS utilizes Laserboy data structures internally (Thanks James!), however all of the functionality (including optimization/processing/reduction/import/export) in this program is unique.
ILD - Inconspicuous Laser Developer (SÔS is pronounced 'sauce')
Each processing step can be enabled or disabled via the button on top of the step.
User manual:
DOWNLOAD HERE
Thanks for all your support in this, members of PL. It is a work for you!
Here's a go at a basic How-to for converting images to ILDA using inkscape and ILD SOS:
7.9MB Xvid compressed Image to ILDA Turorial