laseranim

Make hand-drawn animations for a laser. Animations are exported into an RGB texture and loaded into a TouchDesigner patch that controls the laser.

Controls

File

• ctrl + N: New file
• ctrl + O: Open save folder (drag and drop a .sav file to open it)
• ctrl + S: Save and export (will not overwrite)
• ctrl + R: Rename current file (enter or escape to confirm)
• Drag and drop a jpg or png file to load as a background image (you can load multiple ones on different frames)
• R: Remove all images

Frames

• ctrl + X/C/V: Cut/copy/paste whole frame
• Delete: Delete frame
• N: Insert frame
• X: Clear frame
• A/D: Move between frames

Edit

• ctrl + Z/Y: Undo/redo
• Space: Play/pause preview
• P: Toggle laser animation play
• W/S: Increase/decrease laser tracing speed
• E/Q: Increase/decrease animation fps
• O: Cycle onion skinning between 0, 1 or 2 frames
• ctrl + I: Toggle debug info

Brush tool (B)

• left mouse: freehand draw
• right mouse: draw straight lines
• C: Toggle drawing closed curves
• M: Cycle between different brush smoothing values

Grab tool (G)

• left mouse: grab line
• right mouse: grab whole frame

Image tool (I)

• left mouse: move image
• right mouse: scale image