Pangolin Quickshow for FB3 released!

[smogthemog]

My laptop, a Clevo D47V, has a 3Ghz processor but the MB will only take 1Ghz of Ram
It's really annoying when company's do that!

[White-Light]

Rather, I believe that it has to do with the amount of memory in your compuer. In order to Save, LivePRO (and also QuickShow) needs to allocate memory to do things. If your computer is "tight" to begin with, it really can't allocate memory and it might lock up. This was discovered recently and changes have been made (including adding a "free memory" indicator to QuickShow and making it color coded).

I think often people underestimate the power of memory. Memory alone can increase a pc's speed many times by simply alleviating scratch disc usage.

I have 4GB in my pc and even then at times I can run down to below 1GB free with certain everyday photo or video editing programmes.

On windows XP, games such as Battlefield 2 required at least 2Gb to run comfortably - even windows XP used to use over 1GB for itself once AV and other everyday run items were active.

Vista, is even more memory intensive.

If I was building a pc now, even for Windows 7 which shows a reduction in system requirements, I'd still be aiming at 4GB memory minimum with 6GB as the ideal target.

On any system to guarantee an overhead you want at least 1GB more than the system requires and the more the better. 1GB sounds a lot but you'd be surprised just how quickly a photo or video editor or a game or maybe any type of show software will eat it up. Whereas Pango may be built to be economic with memory, anyone on here running it as a professional should really consider having copious amounts of memory in my opinion, as after all, during a show you could easily pull large amounts of effects and MP3's into the memory and then your entirely dependant on how good all the relevant programmes are in unloading them to ensure you don't run out.

[White-Light]

My laptop, a Clevo D47V, has a 3Ghz processor but the MB will only take 1Ghz of Ram
It's really annoying when company's do that!

I believe that if you're running Vista or Windows 7 its possible to use a memory stick as additional system memory although it is much slower:

Ready Boost: http://www.officialwindowsmagazine.c...-computer.html

[danielbriggs]

blah, blah, blah... something about loads of RAM blah, blah, blah

"640K ought to be enough for anybody"






How Windows treats RAM is analogous to DFS...(yes the furniture shop)
Give it a very small tiny bar stool, and it will be happy to sit there teetering around in the corner.
Give it a luxury three piece leather suite, and it will take the same amount of delight in stretching out end to end lying down, with a nice cold beer.

[FourDee]

I was wondering what the beyond engine does to test patterns ...

[highvolt]

Well, let's put it this way. With the old software, i should have tuned my scanners. I never did it, because for a newbie like me, it sounds tricky enough to mess up everything.

With Quickshow, my patterns look a lot better.

Although there is one thing.. Quickshow put's the default scanning width/height at 50%. So that's another reason they look better.

I was wondering what the beyond engine does to test patterns ...

[JeroenVDV]

I was wondering what the beyond engine does to test patterns ...

As far as I know, Beyond is a bit like the realtime 3DS Max Pangolin plugin. It does tracing of the images in realtime and processes them to laser frames just like the 3DS Max plugin.

Because of this "renderer" running in background you don't care about points/lines/blanking anymore because the renderer takes care of the laser related part, the user only cares about images/effects.

[smogthemog]

Will Pango stuff work with Windows 7?

[ChrisPriest]

I'm running the FB3 on Windows 7 64bit with no problems at all

[norty303]

Just a quick heads up so that people don't come unstuck like I did at the weekend (although everyone else might be 'in the know' already )
Beam attenuation maps don't currently work in build 128. Bill has told me that they are already sorted for the next release.

It wasn't until I was setting up my zones at the gig that I found this to be the case, luckily I had LivePro with me too, although it was a shame as I'd put a bit of work into setting up a new workspace and animations specially and didn't get to use them.