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User's Guide
Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 / (64-Bit or 32-Bit)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66 GHZ / AMD Phenom X3 8750 2.4 GHZ or better
RAM: 4 GB
HDD: 100 MB free HD space
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 / ATI Radeon HD 5870 or better
LS Terminal
This free software is designed to convert video animations into offline content, for playback via smart pixels. As a result of the conversion, we get one or a group of executable files with the *.led extension. You have 256 ports available, each 2048 pixels maximum. A pixel trace has an arbitrary trajectory: Line, matrix, triangle, zigzag, square, freehand outline and more. This software is not tied to any type of LED IC chip. For specific IC chip support, please refer to the iqLED (RF) controllers specifications.
The graphical interface of the Light Studio Terminal 1.59 application is shown below.
Example 1 – pixel costume model
Example 2 – pixel Matrix model
1. general concepts
A pixel is a smart LED, usually an RGB LED with a built-in IC chip (a digital chip for controlling a group of LEDs).
Pixel trace – a sequence of pixels connected by communication lines in any shape (straight line, rhombus, square, circle, profile outline, etc.)
Graphic wiring diagram of the WS2813 pixel route (there may be other IC chips):
iq LED Line tracer – the application is included in the Light Studio Terminal package, for convenient creation, placement, editing of pixel traces on the graphic field.
The equivalent of this scheme will look like in the appendix i q LED Line tracer, as follows:
Port – the output lines of the external control controller that transmit DATA + CLK signals (data and synchronization) to the first pixel of the pixel chain (pixel track). Often only the DATA line is used, without the CLK line, it depends on the type of smart pixel.
Graphic wiring diagram of the WS2813 pixel route connected to the controller
Note: The controller port is always connected to the first pixel of the pixel trace, to the DI – Data input terminal.
A pixel map is a set of one or more pixel traces connected to the corresponding ports.
The equivalent of this scheme – a pixel map will look like in the i q LED Line tracer application, as follows:
Graphic wiring diagram using 4 ports
The equivalent of this scheme is a pixel map (pixel map), in the appendix i q LED Line tracer:
Thus, with a large number of ports in the project, it is possible to create pixel screens, video storefronts, animated advertising banners, etc.
An example of video visualization in the Light Studio Terminal software.
2 iq LED Line tracer app
Controls
Cursor
Cursor button, used to select the active tool, and control the elements of the graphic field. This can be the placement, selection, movement, deletion of: a port, a pixel, or a group of pixels and their communication lines.
The “drag” button / or the “space bar” key is used to position the viewing area of the graphic field.
The “PORT” button is a graphical designation of the port of the control controller.
important! Only one pixel can be bound to each port.
The “Pixel with snap” button.
Creates a chain with binding to the current port or “tail” of the selected chain when placing a new pixel
The “Free pixel” button.
Creates a new pixel, without binding to a port or an arbitrary chain of pixels.
To create a chain of free pixels:
1 – select a free pixel on the field, select with the mouse;
2 – drag it to another free (not connected, or connected only on one side) pixel;
3 – if successful, we get a chain.
The “Chain of Pixels” button.
Creates a new new pixel, with reference to the previous one.
The “Background image” button.
Allows you to use ready-made images as stencils for pixel chains.
The “Scene Size” button.
Allows you to set the maximum size of the pixel field.
The button “Insert a new element from a file”.
Allows you to add previously saved elements to the current scene: pixels, ports, pixel tracks and maps. The added elements are stored in files with the extension *.pxj_json.
Thus, it is possible to create your own database of elements and quickly build and edit new pixel maps.
“Redo/Undo” buttons. Allow You To Return/Cancel the action.
The “ZOOM” buttons, also the mouse scroll wheel. Allow you to scale the scene.
The “Cleanup” button. Allows you to clear the scene.
The “Save/Load Scene” buttons,
or Menu -> File -> Save/Load the scene.
The scene file has the extension *.prj_json.
IMPORTANT!!!
Save your final scene always, before closing it or closing the entire application.
The scene is not saved automatically.
The “IQP” -> Export Scene button allows you to export the entire scene (the final pixel map) for further work in the Light Studio Terminal software.
On the left, the Diode Strips window contains information about all the free pixels, ports and pixel traces of your project.
For export:
1 – Specify the desired name of your project;
2 – Specify the destination folder;
3 – Apply, Make EXPORT button.
As a result, the my_Test folder with the project file of the same name will appear in the my Demo folder my_Test.iq and trace files my_Test_PART 1.iql…my_test_port5.iql.
To work with the final pixel map, launch Light Studio Terminal 1.xx, run:
File->Open Project, select the xxx.iqp project file, click Open.