The LaserBoy Thread

[james]

I just checked it out in Win10 and I made this (attached).

Seems to be ok. (tiki_03.ild)

I imported ctn.wtf (settings file).

I went back and got the original dxf file and turned on a b c g in the optimization parameters since this is a dxf import.

Then I did a minimizes and an optimize in the h menu. (tiki_04.ild)

One thing I did notice that's new (I always update my msys2 before I build) is that now the boost::filesystem throws an exception when I run LB from a network mounted drive that is actually being shared from an old clone of XP running in a VM in Ubuntu. That's a bummer. But it runs fine on the local drive.

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[james]

I bet I know why! It needs to be converted from dxf pallet to the default 63 color pallet!

[dchammonds]

I bet I know why! It needs to be converted from dxf pallet to the default 63 color pallet!

Maybe you're onto something...

[james]

I realized just before I fell asleep that both of my last 2 examples are wrong because they are both 2D and the second one is still using the dxf pallet.

[dchammonds]

I bet I know why! It needs to be converted from dxf pallet to the default 63 color pallet!

OK, I got through the palette issue, but I ran into another problem- I rendered the tiki dxf to wave using the 10 sec repeat frame option got a whopping 3FPS rate
with the default settings. I got about 10FPS out of the optimized ild when clocked at 48k.

[james]

I can see that with all the default settings. That's why all of the optimization parameters are definable.

[dchammonds]

I can see that with all the default settings. That's why all of the optimization parameters are definable.

This is exactly the same bridge element that is added to the frame information when it is being written to a wave file and that frame needs to be repeated.

If I clock an opt ild at the same rate as an opt wav, I would expect the same result unless there are separate opt settings for each...

[james]

Both are derived from the same set of parameters, but the only way to make them the same would be to import a wav and save it as-is as ild.

You can inspect what you actually have using the visual elements (vertices, vectors, direction, blanking, vector order in Z) and the information you get when you hit / and ?.

[dchammonds]

Both are derived from the same set of parameters, but the only way to make them the same would be to import a wav and save it as-is as ild.

You can inspect what you actually have using the visual elements (vertices, vectors, direction, blanking, vector order in Z) and the information you get when you hit / and ?.

We're going in circles here...

[james]

The important parameters are max lit distance, max blank distance, max dwell.

These determine how far you can go in any direction in one sample and how long to hang on an angle up to 180 degrees.

You can see how many vertices are in a frame. If you show vertex order as Z you can look at the side of space and see the dwell and so forth.