LED Matrix ideas

[awake_raf]

Hello,

I'm Freestyler user about 5 years ago and I love this program. Always met all our needs perfectly.

1 year ago we are beginning to use led arrays to handle a dance floor and led sticks of 1 meter.
For this I am using the plugin LEDTRIX, which seems pretty limited in many aspects, especially the use of GIF images instead of generating its own effect.

Investigating and found two very powerful specialized software in this: http://www.madrix.comhttp://www.chromateq.com both commercial and only for their interfaces

However, I found very powerful free alternatives but undeveloped DMX applications:

GLEDIATOR: http://www.solderlab.de/index.php/software/glediator

PIXELCONTROLLER: http://pixelinvaders.ch/?page_id=160

DMatrix: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dmatrix/

Although they are very powerful programs, the problem is that none of these softwares have option to manually patch DMX devices as if it has LEDTRIX. Nor for working with Open DMX interfaces as Enttec.

I guess that develop software must demand such a huge effort.
Therefore, it is possible that in the future may soon join one of these programs to Freestyler?

The 3 named here are open-source and free.

I love to see it, because I think it is all that would be missing.

What do you think?

Greetings,
Franco.

[Jan_K]

Hej awake_raf

This is real cool programs.

As I see it there are more issues in this one.
FreeStylere only controls 512 channels that give a matrix of 13 x 13.
And even if the developer adds an extra universe then with 2 universes it will only be 13x 26 pixels.

And then there is the whole image generation / control, think it will be a huge task for the developer.

I think if I should do a show with a huge matrix then I would use one of the programs you listed and the use FreeStyler to control the other light.
This only requires an extra PC.

This also gives the benefit that you don’t mix the normal light control and the matrix.

/Jan