Dear Pangolin Team,
one of my customers wants to have a special lasershow player. The player must react on external hardware events (I/O ports). Depending on the I/O state (ext. I/O Card) playback of customer made lasershow has to be triggered. The shows will be very complex even containing raster frames.
Now I am searching for a system to satisfy my customer. A friend of mine told me about QM2000 and its possibilitiy to be acessed by open API. We talked about the project and he figured out, doing it in VB oder .net (which I know well) will be easy. BUT there are some limitations he does not know how to solve:
1. QM2000 can hold only one show in its RAM. If the state of my I/O changes, show has to be loaded which will take a while (esp. when using raster frames). This delay has to reduced to a minimum. So we need a possibility to hold up more than one show in the RAM and start it quickliy. Some kind of preloading should be possible, because QM2000 RAM is big enough. When preloading more than one show, I will get problems, because ShowTime references the frames by number. If there is an effect in the show, that uses one frame as basis for an effect (like moving an other frame along the points of a second frame), there will be big problmes. So, what solution can pangolin offer?
2. As the system will be mobile, I have to direct a show into a projection zone. MY projectionzone setting has to have higher priority than the shows internal projectionzone settings.
3. I took a look into the API declaration files for the LD2000.dll. It seems to be very very old as new and important features like projectionzones are not defined. Can you please send my an update?
At first I thought about using Live! with an external hardware to simulate a lasershow performer console...but this is not smart.
Greetings from Germany
Sebastian
one of my customers wants to have a special lasershow player. The player must react on external hardware events (I/O ports). Depending on the I/O state (ext. I/O Card) playback of customer made lasershow has to be triggered. The shows will be very complex even containing raster frames.
Now I am searching for a system to satisfy my customer. A friend of mine told me about QM2000 and its possibilitiy to be acessed by open API. We talked about the project and he figured out, doing it in VB oder .net (which I know well) will be easy. BUT there are some limitations he does not know how to solve:
1. QM2000 can hold only one show in its RAM. If the state of my I/O changes, show has to be loaded which will take a while (esp. when using raster frames). This delay has to reduced to a minimum. So we need a possibility to hold up more than one show in the RAM and start it quickliy. Some kind of preloading should be possible, because QM2000 RAM is big enough. When preloading more than one show, I will get problems, because ShowTime references the frames by number. If there is an effect in the show, that uses one frame as basis for an effect (like moving an other frame along the points of a second frame), there will be big problmes. So, what solution can pangolin offer?
2. As the system will be mobile, I have to direct a show into a projection zone. MY projectionzone setting has to have higher priority than the shows internal projectionzone settings.
3. I took a look into the API declaration files for the LD2000.dll. It seems to be very very old as new and important features like projectionzones are not defined. Can you please send my an update?
At first I thought about using Live! with an external hardware to simulate a lasershow performer console...but this is not smart.
Greetings from Germany
Sebastian
