The LSX tutorials thread!

[Sandstorm]

Thanks for all the help. I think i can make my graphic bounce under the beat by doing it manually then. I guess a size event with sawtooth wave and certain amount of repeats calculated from length of song and BPM could work. What do you think?

works well if you want to make your graphics change on regular beat.

Also, i dont know how to do the rend2frame trick. i understand it takes everything above it and every frame writes it to a CAT frame. but i dont know how to make my transform events below it to affect that cat frame...

rend2frame writes everything into one CAT frame, which changes in time. You cannot further manipulate that frame. However, if you do this you can take that frame and put into animation event, which you can manipulate as any other animation.

[Sandstorm]

In picedit there is a 'Picture editor" icon in a toolbar right under 'File'. when you click it you get the CAT framelist. If you switch to other frame and click 'animator->editor' it will let you edit other frame. hotkey is ctrl+LMouseButton on the want-to-edit frame.

[dzodzo]

Thanks for all the help. I think i can make my graphic bounce under the beat by doing it manually then. I guess a size event with sawtooth wave and certain amount of repeats calculated from length of song and BPM could work. What do you think?

Also, i dont know how to do the rend2frame trick. i understand it takes everything above it and every frame writes it to a CAT frame. but i dont know how to make my transform events below it to affect that cat frame...

hello, check out this older post, it may give you some idea http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/...706#post230706

[Sandstorm]

I've noticed that my galvos curves the lines after blanking if running in LSX.
made a picture like | | | | |. My vertical lines were curved. then I changed blankings to visible and vertical lines straightened. I tried to find some optimization options to correct it but with no luck.
Did anyone of you have such problem?

[swamidog]

it was done by generating an effect with the lissajous editor, then performing a z-axis clone on the effect and adding world x/y/z rotation events and color modulation.

In this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5gt85VrE_A
Time 1:31. How was that done? its soo cool.

[swamidog]

there's no tutorial for that effect (that's my show you linked). there are some tutorials about performing z-axis clones. try to find the link to my presentation at SELEM . that will cover the basic principle.

thanks. ive tried figuring out the lissajou event but i cant.
The manual is confusing too and it shows some options whic i cant see in my version.
is there a tutorial somewhere on it?

[Sandstorm]

all i wanted to do was get a pink and blue color. so far i found out how to disable the green channel to get red and blue but dont know what to do now...

i'd say, make blue constant and modulate red in the way you want pink to be displayed...

[swamidog]

right.. in the color modulation event (i'd use color modulation post), turn off green. set blue and red to constant/expression. then click the expression button and change your slider values.

i'd say, make blue constant and modulate red in the way you want pink to be displayed...

[Sandstorm]

Can anyone explain why sometimes, when creating independent SFX it saves CAT picture for itself, and sometimes it doesn't? I mean, when I load my own created SFX some of them bring in their own CAT frames into used catalog, and others don't bring in anything and has just empty frames instead... probably it depends on saving somehow, though I haven't figured out how.. and I've already lost some really usable effects..

[swamidog]

it's probably still loading the frames into the CAT, but it might not be putting the frames in the expected slot. LSX slides them around a little to make sure you don't overwrite existing frames. scroll through all the frames in your CAT and see if it's there. it might be at the end.

Can anyone explain why sometimes, when creating independent SFX it saves CAT picture for itself, and sometimes it doesn't? I mean, when I load my own created SFX some of them bring in their own CAT frames into used catalog, and others don't bring in anything and has just empty frames instead... probably it depends on saving somehow, though I haven't figured out how.. and I've already lost some really usable effects..