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HowTo: Ledtriks Led Panel
( Robert Jordan)
Step 14 : The Software
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| | Vixen cannot I am afraid drive this design. I tried but not only is the update rate needed too fast for vixen, the interface does not lead itself to designing graphics. This is not a shortcoming in vixen its a screw driver and we needed a hammer to run this. I have created a program for this purpose. I am not ready to release it public yet but will as soon as I clean it up some. I will tell you I am not KC. It will not be on the professional level of Vixen but it will do what I want to do which is text and full control graphics. I have spoke with KC and he is excited after seeing the test of LedTriks and wants to make vixen integrate with it. I fully plan to take advantage of this and make this as seamless as possible. I expect to have a rough beta out with in a month, sooner for some of those with hardware done who want to test.
I have included a screen capture of the program which I also call "LedTriks' in its current crude state.
Do to LedTriks being a animation board as opposed to a scrolling text banner I designed it based on frames. You can have the software create any text frames automatically for you by typing the text and having it auto generate the text. But to create graphics we select the led’s we want on by click them on and then we hit save frame. You also can save the frame as a named graphic in the database for later use. This creates more complications in the software but adds flexibility in being able to create anything that will fit the board.
It is my vision to use LedTriks as my sign before and after the show and it be part of the show during.
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