Help with LD2000 Please

[Jem]

Have just made this scanning beambrush using the method described above. If some kind person would have a look to see how it looks on an actual projector i'd be most grateful (you'll need to use the SFX Animate/morph to view it animated). At least then i'll know whether or not i'm on the right tracks.

Thanks

Jem

[Carl B]

A most helpful thread as I was having similar issues in the frame designer of Live Quick. I hope the same applies to Live Quick.

Carl

[decix]

@Jem: Looks okay to me.

[Jem]

@Jem: Looks okay to me.

, that's good news indeed. Thanks for that.

Incidentally, if you're importing the set of frames into LivePRO there's no need to animate them from within LD2000 as LivePRO takes care of the animation for you by playing the frames in sequence over and over.

Once you have the beambrush in LivePRO things really start to get interesting. You can add Effects, Key Effects, Colour Cycles etc etc. It's amazing how much you can manipulate one simple beambrush and how incredible it can look. I now have a whole line of cues from this one simple brush that all look completely different

Thanks again guys, I just needed that bit of inspiration .

Cheers

Jem

[decix]

Have you already tried creating abstracts with Abstraction (from the LAStudio for QM2000 package) ?
Once you get the clue you can create hundreds of cool animations.
Of course there already is a abstract generator in LD2000, but I don't really like to use it.
Btw... waiting for v5.0 Yeah, I know... "when it's done".

[allthatwhichis]

Are you above cheating? I opened Adam's Above show for a frame with 17 beams in a fan (frame 697); then opened the Gravity show file in the effects list. There is a "Write in" effect that you can open and change the name (Write out), create new effect, reopen the new Write out effect what has the same properties as "write in" and mirror "write in" so it starts with write in's finish state (use the check box for "make values relative to last visible points" for the ending and I now have a fan that writes in and writes out... Assuming you feel that this method is cheating... I think of it as using the wheel someone invented already.

[Insanity]

If you want to keep your workspace filesize as small as possible for faster loading etc, add a single frame with the beambrush and make a key effect. You can then choose to have it looping, only playing once etc. This will make the difference between KB and MB size workspaces.

I attached a couple you can reverse engineer...

Mark

[Stuka]

Have you already tried creating abstracts with Abstraction (from the LAStudio for QM2000 package) ?
Once you get the clue you can create hundreds of cool animations.
Of course there already is a abstract generator in LD2000, but I don't really like to use it.
Btw... waiting for v5.0 Yeah, I know... "when it's done".

So how do you get the LAStudio for QM2000?
Abstraction for the FB3 is pretty cool - I'd like to give it a try with the QM!

[ImageLight]

So how do you get the LAStudio for QM2000?
Abstraction for the FB3 is pretty cool - I'd like to give it a try with the QM!

Hey Randy,

I believe all you have to do is E-Mail Bill at Pangolin and ask for it.

Mark

[cat]

All of you are just amazing. I've been reading this entire post trying to see if I can understand Pangolin. I've tried following the DVD, it's confusing. I did some playing with the clipart. I'm not the laserist. DJMatt is finishing his build, I thought I would see if I could just find my talent with Pangolin. Am I just going to wake up one day and understand all this? I'll continue to read the post...........Cat