if someone, who has lsp 2.5, could send me a small file? I am looking gor something like two rgb strings, do a chase on the first 5-10 pixels. Save as an asq file (no music) and send it to me. I dont have 2.5 but i want to exlore the structure of the new file.
i think i will try and focus on getting a lsp 2.5 file export from nutcracker
Kane, over in auschristmas, has been giving me valuable input for a 2.9 file.
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LoginI tried creating a simple one string rgb , no music and exported it as asq in lsp 2.0
i then just tried to unzip it and rezip it back. lsp would no load the file. Kane, found the problem.
I figured I'd take the plunge and switch my tool over to support the 2.5 file format, and all went well until I tried to save the file again. It seems that LSP cant read in my zip archive. I've emailed David to ask about it, so hopefully I'll get a reply when he gets back from holidays...
Doing a bit more testing tonight, if I unzip a .msq file, and rezip it (without modifying it), LSP fails to open up the file, which lines up with LL's test results. I've tried zipping up with my .NET libraries, with WinZip, WinRar and 7-Zip, and none of them are able to be loaded by LSP. (Interestingly, all 4 of these end up with different file sizes when zipping up the same files)
Once I get past this issue, I think it'll be relatively straightforward to apply the .hlsnc data to a sequence.i suggested he take the hls file i produce (This is the simplest output of the four sequences i support : vixen, lor,lsp,hls)
he got it to work!
Okay, worked out the zip file issue. After a lot of experimenting, and delving into the innerds of zip files, it seems as though LSP requires particular comments to be stored against each file in the zip archive as metadata ("LightShow Pro Light Sequence" against the whole zip archive, "Sequence" against the sequence file, and "Controller" against each controller file) So if I add these in, I'm able to get my exported .msq file to load up in LSP.
So I've written a quick and dirty import procedure, and tested it using a 10 second nutcracker animation - a matrix of 18x36 (648 channels). My tool took several minutes to load this data in and save the xml, but it worked eventually. Will have to look at more efficient ways of manipulating the xml.
I'm not 100% sure if the effects in LSP line up with what nutcracker produced, but will experiment more with that when I get a chance.
The resulting .msq file was around 2Mb, and uncompressed it was around 60Mb, so I can see issues popping up here - if you had 2000 rgb channels and 3 minutes of nutcracker effects, you'd be looking at around a 3-4GB file, and I have no idea if LSP could handle that..I kane could make a tool that will take a nutcracker hls file and produce a lsp asq file, all of you lsp users would be happy.
I would be happy ....
the saga continues ..
thanks
sean
