LED Curtain

[bhorowitz]

On an upcoming tour, I'm using a Chameleon LED RGB backdrop. I plan on exporting my VW drawing to ESP and was wondering if anyone had a suggestion as to how to simulate this. I've thought about building a vertical grid of RGB sources but this wouldn't really be accurate.

Thanks,

[klinzey]

The best thing to do is just make a 3D poly in VW and apply an image texture. Once you are in vision select the Material node and change the Material Properties\Effect.

You can use something like a SoftLED or tiles effect to simulate the grid.

This will allow you to keep the polygon count down and easily map images, change colors, or map a capture device to the object.

[bhorowitz]

Thanks Kevin. I'm going to have to fake it a bit. I will not be feeding it imagery, just using the RGB LEDs as a more up to date stardrop.

[Horst M.]

have a look at Videoscreen 4

http://www.landrudesign.com/DefaultFrameSet.htm?index.htm~LandruMnFrm

I had good success simulating single LED Pixels in LED Walls using the Method Benson Shaw describes in this thread

http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=148401&Searchpage=1&Main=30263&Words=rambler&Search=true#Post148401

For colors it will work perfect

Its giving good results even for Images, if you scale the jpeg according to the Pixelcount of your LED Curtain.

[bhorowitz]

What I actually did was to build a grid of 1" emissive RGB LEDs from the ESP library. We'll see what it looks like when I'm hooked up to the full ESP system on Saturday.