Software | Release Version | Icon |
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Igloo Warper | 1.1920.x |   |
Function:
Igloo Warper is an application that provides a canvas for the playback of images, videos and a variety of other content types. Igloo Warper also Warps and Blends the output, fitting the canvas to any shaped screen, geometrically correcting the warped image, and allowing for multiple projectors to be seamlessly blended together if there’s an overlap in projection.
The User Interface:
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Many items in the user interface can cause dramatic changes to the canvas. It’s advisable to make a backup of the IglooWarper folder at “%ProgramData%\Igloo Vision\IglooWarper” as shown below Settings that may dramatically change the operation of the Igloo will be marked in these boxes and it’s advised these settings are not changed without consultation from the Igloo support team |
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The Warper user interface UI window contains 3 main sections: a menu bar, a canvas preview, and a playhead bar (applicable only when playing back videos).
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File :menu
The file dropdown has a single item, save, which automatically saves all warper settings when hovered over with a mouse:
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menu has 2 items:
Enable Admin Mode/Disable Admin Mode: toggles the admin mode setting. When enabled, admin mode expands the menus available in the menu bar to include the Config, Warping and Blending menus.
Save, this saves all the current warper settings in the configuration files folder shown above.
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Config menu
The config dropdown has a few items; Controller, High Performance Warping, Black Level Adjustment, Timing, Audio, Window, and Communication.
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Hovering over any item will bring up another context menu.
Controller submenu
The controller Controller menu covers the relevant settings for using game controllers such as the steam controller, and also covers the relevant settings for sending gyroscope data to game engines.
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Type: Contains a list of valid controller types. Types are None, XIMU, DS4 (For use with Playstation’s DualShock 4 controllers), GYRO_OSC (For use with the mobile application Gyro OSC), IGLOO_REMOTE (For use with Igloo Touch), STEAM (for use with the discontinued Steam Controller), and OPEN_VR (For use with VR wand-style controllers)
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High Performance Warping: Used for black level correction (beta) and Scalable auto warping. |
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If Scalable is enabled when a Scalable system is not in place, this will cause an immediate crash to desktop |
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Black Level Adjustment submenu
See the advanced topics page here: S22 Advanced: Black Level Adjustment
Timing submenu
Timing Allows the monitoring of movie and application FPS and defines the framerate cap of the Igloo Warper application (0 is uncapped).
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Adaptive framerate: Attempts to match the application framerate to the movie’s
Audio : submenu
Audio Allows the definition of a delay between the audio and visuals, and allows the configuration of the Igloo Audio Engine:
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Use this if your speakers are extremely far away from the screen |
Window submenu
Window: Allows the definition of the width of a window, and the number of projectors in the system
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Note that reducing the number of projectors or increasing the number of columns of rows will reset your warps completely. |
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Communication submenu
Communication: Defines the ports that Igloo Warper sends and receives messages on
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Changing the input and output ports can disrupt the communication flow of the entire Igloo software suite. Changing these without consulting the Igloo support team is not advised. |
Blending
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menu
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Overlaps: Defines the percentage of the content that is repeated at the given edge of the screen
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Rotation degrees: Specific to circular or semicircular warping, rotates the entire mesh clockwise against the defined rotation amount.
Warping
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menu
Replicates the warping tab from touchoscTouchOSC. See the Warping page for more information
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View
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menu
Change settings specific to how the canvas is viewed
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Show Control Points: Shows/Hides the control points which are used to manipulate the mesh
Black Level Adjustment: enables/disables the black level adjustment feature.
Full Screen: Places the Warper canvas in fullscreen, or brings the Warper canvas to the terminal display for debugging purposes.
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Wrap rate: Continuously rotates the entire canvas clockwise. Speed of the rotation increases as the value does
Layers
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menu
Allows settings to be applied to any input on a given layer, and allows the order of the layers to be defined.
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Layouts and regions are set on an input by input basis.
Refresh Inputs: this button refreshes the spout receiver inputs in the Warper. This is useful if any of the layers appear to be ‘frozen’ and can be fixed with a refresh.
Media Folders
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menu
Allows the definition of folders that images and videos are stored
Media Files
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menu
Shows a list of all available images and videos that a user can click on to play.
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When media is played this way it will retain any clip-based settings applied to the previously played clip. Clips must be played through Igloo Control in order to use settings exclusive to that file |
Play
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menu
Contains playback controls such as Play, pause, stop, etc. Also here, the startup behaviour can be set to play a movie immediately when Igloo Warper opens.
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Auto Canvas Average Colour: Takes an average of all the colours from the content and sets that as the movie background colour
Output
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menu
Allows the sharing of the Warper Canvas over Spout and NDI. Allows the creation of screenshots and .mov files from the Warper canvas.
Help
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menu
Shows licensing information, Software versioning, and provides a shortcut to the Warper settings folder
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