Laser Animator Demo Version 1.63 09/03/05

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1. Installation Details
2. Using Laser Animator

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1. Installation Details:

Laser Animator is compatable with Windows 98 / 2000 and XP and 
requires a PC with minimum specifications of 1.5GHz, 256MB of RAM, 
screen resolution of 1024x768, EPP Parallel port and 1.5GB of hard 
disk space for the full version installation.

Double click the file LA-Demo-V1-63.exe to run the self extractor. The
self extractor will extract the files to the directory:

	C:\Laser Animator Demo Install 

When this has finished, go into the above directory and double click 
on the Setup.exe file to install. Follow the on screen instructions.

If you have problems installing any of the above software please 
contact your dealer or email Nu Light Systems at:lasupport@nu-light.co.uk   
giving details of your problem.

The demonstration software has all the functionality of the full package, 
apart from being able to save animations, compiled animations and show 
files. There is also no output to the laser.

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2. Using Laser Animator:

The user manual gives full details of Laser Animator's Software 
functionality, and is complete with tutorials. If you wish to use 
the demonstration to create your own animations to get a true feel 
of how the package operates, then it is strongly recommended that 
you read through them! It does not take long and will help you 
understand how everything works together and stop you from making 
mistakes along the way. A little time spent now can save a lot of 
frustrating time later on when you do not know what is happening! 

However if you cannot wait, and want to see the demo animations 
and shows supplied then just follow the instructions below:

Animations in Editor: 
 
To load in one of the demonstration animations into the Editor, 
click on File and Open and then select from the Library Animations 
directory one of the LAB files. This will load in, into the Editor 
and you will be able to see how that animation has been made up 
frame by frame.

To see the animation play on the screen, press the Play button 
in the Frame Tools window. You can create your own animations by 
clicking on File and New and then simply by experimenting with the 
editing and animation tools. If you want to do this, please have a 
go at reading the instructions for the functions in this manual, 
it will save you a lot of time!

Shows in Player: 
 
To load in the demonstration show in the Player, click on File and 
Open and then select from the Library Shows directory the LA DEMO Show.LAS 
file. Make sure that the Play mode radio button is selected for Normal.

Press the Show Player button and then the Laser Animator Player - 
Show Control window appears, where a play list with the assigned 
keyboard hotkeys will appear. Press the Play button in Show Control 
panel to start the show.

If you want to have a go at creating your own shows you can by using the
Add Animation feature in Player. In Player click on File and New, you 
will now be able to start a show from new. Press the Add Animation 
button, to build up your list of animations to use in the show.
You can then assign hotkeys to them, change the number of times they 
play, how long they play, define pauses, show start times etc. 

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Thank you for downloading the Laser Animator demonstration software. 

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