The LSX tutorials thread!

[Galvonaut]

Holy crap Galvonaut that was sweet.

I am interested in learning how you did the effects at minute 1:10 and 2:17 if you wouldn't mind sharing.

Haha - it looks good until you try scanning it

My Shpongle track scans a lot better than this one but I have some ct6800s that I need get into a projector type configuration and test what I've done so far.

I'm not at home at the moment but when I am I'll let you know how I did them. 2.17 was certainly using a rend to frame and then using the resulting frame in an sfx loop with a loop-phase type expression..... don't hold me to that though - it's 5am and I'm not exactly sober!

Keith

[Galvonaut]

i was wondering how you did that.. it's such a graceful effect.

Glad you like it swami - but as you say, I need to get my single mode built before I carry on playing with lsx - then some nice 5 Watt beamers which may actually earn me some money this year

Keith

[SaltyRobot]

Tried out Galvonauts suggestion of using loop*sin(phase) on some of my existing patterns. I thought this one was cool. Hopefully I will get a chance to play with more today.

[Galvonaut]

Holy crap Galvonaut that was sweet.

I am interested in learning how you did the effects at minute 1:10 and 2:17 if you wouldn't mind sharing.

Ok, more detail on these 2 effects.

1.10 is a simple diagonal line with curves at top and bottom - you could use any shape of course though.
This is all within an sfxloop with a duplicate count of 12.
Size xy linear from .25 to .5
A little 3D control - not sure how I can transpose the info in this here though.
A premoveX -.5 to 0 linear
The loop bit is simply a loop*phase in a RotateX
World rotateZ sin(phase*etime)
Then some modulate RGB with red disabled, green cosine, blue sine.


Now, 2.17 is pretty complex. It doesn't scan well but I'll work on that once I get my ct6800 up and running.

The base image for this is a squashed up sine wave that looks like a 'w' this is in an sfxloop with duplicate count of 3
Rotate z with loop.
Size xy .2 to .2 linear
World rotate z idx+phase
Word rotate z 0 to 1 sinewave
premove x -.5 to .5 sinewave

So - when I'm creating these effects, I often stack 'em up - hence 2 rotate Zs
Under this sfxloop goes a rend2frame, then under this another sfxloop with the source as the rend2frame slot.

So, for this loop to get that slow expansion I used a rotate z loop*phase/8
premovex -.25 to .25 sine repeated 16 times
premovey as above but cosine
sizexy .5 to .9 sinewave repeated 8 times
then colour effects.

Keith

[Galvonaut]

Very nice

It's fun using phase and etime - can't wait to get my teeth sunk into lsx again!

Keith

Tried out Galvonauts suggestion of using loop*sin(phase) on some of my existing patterns. I thought this one was cool. Hopefully I will get a chance to play with more today.

[swamidog]

i'm totally stealing this!

Ok, more detail on these 2 effects.

1.10 is a simple diagonal line with curves at top and bottom - you could use any shape of course though.
This is all within an sfxloop with a duplicate count of 12.
Size xy linear from .25 to .5
A little 3D control - not sure how I can transpose the info in this here though.
A premoveX -.5 to 0 linear
The loop bit is simply a loop*phase in a RotateX
World rotateZ sin(phase*etime)
Then some modulate RGB with red disabled, green cosine, blue sine.


Now, 2.17 is pretty complex. It doesn't scan well but I'll work on that once I get my ct6800 up and running.

The base image for this is a squashed up sine wave that looks like a 'w' this is in an sfxloop with duplicate count of 3
Rotate z with loop.
Size xy .2 to .2 linear
World rotate z idx+phase
Word rotate z 0 to 1 sinewave
premove x -.5 to .5 sinewave

So - I when I'm creating these effects, I stack often stack 'em up - hence 2 rotate Zs
Under this sfxloop goes a rend2frame, then under this another sfxloop with the source as the rend2frame slot.

So, for this loop to get that slow expansion I used a rotate z loop*phase/8
premovex -.25 to .25 sine repeated 16 times
premovey as above but cosine
sizexy .5 to .9 sinewave repeated 8 times
then colour effects.

Keith

[Galvonaut]

i'm totally stealing this!

Haha, just sharing the love swami

Fill ya' boots!

[SaltyRobot]

i'm totally stealing this!

I'm with ya Swami. Totally working this into shows.

[swamidog]

of course he posts it *right* after i finish my show...

I'm with ya Swami. Totally working this into shows.

[Galvonaut]

of course he posts it *right* after i finish my show...

Of course - we need more swami-shows!