To open projection zones go to settings, projection zones, here we set up destinations
for our content and assign those destinations to output hardware. To do this we are given
many different features for positioning, routing, previews, and safety. On the top we have buttons
to open and save the entire zone settings or create a new one, we can save this as default
settings, add zones and delete them. For safety we have a brightness fader and a copy button.
All the way to the right you can also click show it now to enable preview live with your lasers,
above those buttons there is more options related to saving, view options and more. On the left
side we have a list view of all the projection zones showing its name, its selected hardware,
serial number, and name if it has one. Here you can see what it looks like if a zone is
assigned to connected hardware, and disconnected hardware. On the right side you have boxes you can
select for two different types of test patterns you click to enable. On the right side we have
a bunch of tabs for different parameters for each zone, the most important ones to note for
real-life setup and positioning are the general tab, geometric tab, and beam attenuation map.
Other things we can control about zones are its preview and advanced features.
Under the general tab you can give your zone names or rename a zone by adding a name, changing its
position, and deleting the old name. Below that we can select which output hardware we want this
zone to be assigned to, the order of which we assigned in our laser controller hardware window
as well you can see an overview of the settings on the other tabs.
Under geometric correction we can correct our zone for how we want first we will turn the brightness
all the way down and enable a test pattern and slowly bring it up until we can see our
zone. It's always a good idea to use as little brightness as needed during setup for safety,
now we can click universal geometry correction and start to zone, using size, position
rotation,
linearity,
symmetry,
keystone,
pin cushion, bow, and shear,
next we can use the beam attenuation map if we have somewhere within our zone that we want
the lasers to turn off for. Before we start blacking out area we need to decide if we want
our map to be within our geometric correction or over the entirety of our projections capable area.
Click geometric correction after bam if you want it to be within the zone and if you move the zone
it'll move the map. Select bam after geometric correction if you don't want your bam map to move
if you move your geometric correction. Once we have made that decision we can enable beam
attenuation map for this zone and prepare to draw, on the left we have new, copy to other zones,
copy and paste, then the pencil tool, spray can tool, eyedropper tool, paint can, solid square,
and gradient squares. On the bottom we can select what brightness we want to draw into, on the right
we can also enable our cursor which will show us where your mouse is in real life with the laser,
we can enable our laser cursor and let's block out the area of our zone,
you can see these changes live in the zone test pattern.
Now that we've set up our zone in laser and done our safety settings we can look
at some of the other options, first we have our preview tab. Here we can adjust
how the zone will be seen within the preview window, you can view it as graphics or beams,
we can change its size, position, and rotation of the zone itself, change the beam diameter,
and even change the position of the projector point source within that space.
On the right we can see how to look in our preview window, by using preview you can
write entire complex laser shows just using the preview window. And second we have advanced,
we have a couple selections for advanced users to select average users should not have any of
these first beam related check marks selected and are fully described here. Thank you for watching
our "quick hints" video on the projection zone settings window, if you still need help you can
contact support by emailing support@pangolin.com and we'll help you as soon as possible