Projection Mapping in 20 Minutes (Using Luxedo)

all right step one with the luxedo projector so the first step is to get your projector out in a place where you can get full coverage on your house and so this is where i ended up putting up mine i had to put pretty high because i have a roof there that if the projector's too low and it casts a big shadow on that front part of the house which i don't want to have a big shadow on that part that's a great blank canvas to to shine something on so i had to get the projector up pretty high and then you just want to line it up to where you get full coverage on the whole house or everything you want to project on and then the the process of mapping it's a bit different than what we did with after effects and with after effects we shined the projector on on the house and we drew lines across the doors and the windows and the garages and all the details that we don't want to later to ask with flexito it's a little different we're going to to calibrate the projector to the house which basically means taking a whole bunch of pictures of it and then at the end that will allow us to take a snapshot of the whole house that we can then in the software map it so what we're going to do next here take my phone off refresh this now that the projector is plugged in and as a reminder lexedo is cloud-based so you just go to this url from whatever device that you're on and you can access your projectors and your projects i'm going to choose the projector we want i'm going to recalibrate automatic and it's got these different settings on it's probably dim right now it's not very bright distance probably about 20 feet give or take and multiple services and then we'll just start it up it's gonna warm up the camera and it'll take probably five to ten minutes i won't record that whole thing and bore you but let's get at least to where you can start seeing what it looks like as it's taking the pictures it's a cold february night out here when we were doing the halloween show it was much warmer as we were testing it out late summer all right this is what it's going to look like as it's calibrating and taking pictures looks kind of like beetlejuice i only said beetlejuice once so don't worry oh i just said it twice i better not say it a third time right then the screen's going to just keep track of how many images it's taking we're getting pretty good coverage all the way around to my neighbor's house too the only spot that i'm missing a little bit is on this front corner i'm getting a little bit of a shadow there that i probably don't want but it's good enough it's gonna run these beetlejuice lines vertical sometimes big fat lines sometimes little skinny ones it's going to run a horizontal we're about 18 of 18 images captured so far [Music] so i'll just let this finish up and then i can show you what the next step is finishing up the last of the images now the pictures are taken it's going to process the images it takes just a couple minutes for that this is all happening on their servers on the cloud as opposed to on your laptop or device and that's it calibration complete so now we can look at the different snapshots the different pictures that it took some other ones i was experimenting with um those are the old ones that i created and then if i click capture here then it's going to get a fresh snapshot from that calibration that we did that could take up about 30 seconds as it says and we should have a new snapshot below that we can choose from and that snapshot we can add to any of our projects and just do the masks right on that picture as opposed to as i said drawing lines and windows and things like that now the projector has been calibrated and scattered all those images and then finally from those images taking a snapshot of the entire house now we can come in here in the software and create a project so we're going to do a super simple one because the intent of this video is to just show from start to finish the entire process so obviously you could spend as long as you want getting additional details this video is going to just do something very basic very simple to kind of show you through the process so first thing we'll do is create a new project test halloween i think is a good one and we'll get our blank canvas canvas here if we come up to the projector we can grab the snapshots grab one of them that we we created so the one we just did is this one right here so as i said it's a little different from when you do other projection mapping where you use uh software to draw the lines on the different elements of the house it just provides the snapshot of the house and then we'll add the mask directly to this so the very first mask that i think we're going to want to create is around the outside of the house so that we can mask out or block out everything behind the house we want to shine just stuff that's on the house and not have a bleed over onto my neighbor's house or things like that and i'm going to make that my very first layer so this layer 0 i'm going to rename to background and we'll create the mask to support that so to create a mask you click on this button here create a new mask and i'm going to trace the outside of the house again it's a little quick and dirty but it'll get the job done just going to draw all the way around the whole house and if you don't get it right the first time these masks are editable after you can adjust it later so if you want to just get it get the job done just get the first part laid out and then we can do that and you probably remember this blind spot where the projector was shining so that part is still cut off all right there's our first mask background and whenever you create the mask you want to associate it with one of these layers so this is my background layer and this is the button where you'd adjust the mask points later if you wanted to like this garage one seems a little bit off you know things like that you can adjust later and got the layer selected click save so now there is a mask around the house and to to block it out i think what i'll probably do is just create a shape from this button here that can fill the entire canvas zoom out a bit just something that covers the whole thing so it can be blacked out and then you notice that the mask by default is actually putting this object within the mask so if i go back over to the masks here i can change that to outside and voila now we have it and i don't want that orange actually so let me go back into this and change the color to black there we go so now whatever i project with it's going to be just on the house and nothing else now the other habit i'm trying to get into is to then lock the layer i'm not working on because then i don't accidentally select or change things i don't intend to so let's create a few other masks too i'm going to do a layer and a mask for each of these planes on my house so i have a garage one i have this rooftop i have an inner wall and then i have this front wall and then i think i'll do another one for the windows and doors and we'll call it good there so let's create a couple more layers this one's going to be my garage background won't be the garage door itself i'll i'll put something else there because i want to project something on the door but the whole background part and then this would be that upper wall on the second story of the house and inner wall and lastly we'll do the front background and while we're at it let's go ahead and create the layer that i want to use for things that will show up in the windows or doors okay so i've got layers for all of those now i'm going to create some masks for them save my work here real quick all right let's create a mask for each of these layers new mask the tracing one there are shapes that you can do but i honestly have found the quickest way to do it is with the trace even if it's a square it's pretty darn quick doing it this way garage background oh and i forgot to assign that to later i'm going to put that on my garage background layer there we go create a mask for up here and again on a lengthier project or a more detailed project you would do masks for about everything you can think of you could do it um cover i called some different didn't i so you you could do masks around these lights so you can do some cool torches you do masks separating the bricks from the stucco the the trim and the gutters the stairs all of that could be different masks so you can do different effects on every single one of them this is going to be just as i said a super basic one i'm not going to bother going down each individual stair either for this there's my inner wall my background select a layer to this wall here what's cool about this is this may not be as detailed as you know the one we did for our halloween show back in 2020 but it'll still be probably the coolest and best decorated house in the in the neighborhood so with relatively little effort you can blow your neighbors away and have something really amazing all right that takes care of the the big sections of the house you need a couple quick masks as well for the garage area the garage door that one's going to be on this windows and doors layer doing around these windows so i can put cool things in the window as a side note as i'm doing that a cheap way that i've found um to have something to project on in these windows is to just get those frosted shower curtains and hang it in your window cheap easy way to then have something that the projector can project on so you can have ghosts floating around in the window or whatever you want a couple more of these i'm gonna do this big front window here and one more for the door okay so that's enough masking like i said you could do more details but i don't want to bore you with all those uh details unnecessarily for this video so let's just get right to adding some things to our house that we can project on it and i'm a big honor mansion fan so how about we just throw this haunted mansion wallpaper that i uploaded onto our house and to get to any of these media objects you come to this tab there's some that it comes with built in and then you can upload videos gifs pictures whatever you want to put on the house so let's throw some haunted mansion wallpaper on the outside of the house now when you first drag it on it usually ends up on this first layer remember this one was layer zero that's usually where the objects the images and videos that you drag on it usually defaults to that and so once it lands there you can just move it to where you want it so if i put the first one on the garage level i can cover the garage with the wallpaper drag it over again show it up there put that in my upper background a couple more times that one was easy and then the front backgrounds slide that over here i need to expand it just a bit to fit there we go quick and simple and you have automation wallpaper on your house now let's throw something on the garage and the windows real quick too so i've always been a fan of the hatbox ghost let's put him standing in our door how about that this is a gif that i uploaded and so it's actually this video five right here and i'm going to put it in our windows and doors layer so i can show it up and show up in the door now one of the things you're like okay well how come it's not showing up here order of your layers matters and so what you want to be on the top you typically put up at the top so windows and doors should go above all these background images and then it'll show up within those masks that we created so you can see that here now he's showing up on the door right where i wanted him to be him in the door we can angle it a little bit like that so he's standing in the door that looks ghost now let's see what else can we throw on this all right my son was doing a bunch of ghosts so let's just throw some random ghosts in here too shows up on that one i'm going to drag it to my windows and doors layer and we'll put this ghost in our window hop out and get a couple of other ghosts in the other windows oops so that one is not showing up in the windows there might be something with my mask that i need to double check on and if you lose focus on which um which object you're working with you can always click on it down here and it'll highlight it so yeah i'm curious why that one is not showing up we'll have to look at that let's rename these so i can find it left ghost kind of like left shark that way i can remember that i want to come back and see why that's not working let's try the right window and have a ghost in there too right ghost and that one also doesn't show up so it's probably something with this this whole layer we'll check that here in just a second and then let's get one more something for the garage i like i like having a little orange in my stuff there we go now within luxito's platform you can adjust the angle two-dimensionally in subsequent releases that they're going to be doing you can also pivot it in 3d space as well and that is pretty much all there is let's just see if we can fix our left ghost right ghost here so it could be a couple of things and there's some ways that you can easily find out what it is you can take the objects off by clicking this eyeball button so it's not hiding behind that and the object is there my best guess is that it's probably i probably forgot to add the mask to the layer yep that's the problem so my left window just change that to the windows and doors layer and it shows up scrunch that down so it fits in the window and then i can do the same thing with the the right window and that's your layer and that did work but it looks like since it's just a trace it's not showing up so what i probably have to do is add a black square or a white square or something like that since it's transparent and it's letting the wallpaper bleed through now let's uh just run this and see how it looks you can hit this anytime during development and see how it looks i really only got the one video in there and i noticed that it disappeared pretty quickly and so um what that is is on this timeline he only lasts that long as the gift so i can just extend this and voila under 20 minutes now you've got something cool that you can project on your house and then from here the sky's the limit you can customize you can add details you can do whatever you want to but this will still be giving you something awesome to put up in your neighborhood and now when you want to actually play this on the on the projector up here where i was saving this saves it to the cloud when you're just working on the project and then once it's done you can save it to the device meaning your projector you can preview it play it and then as part of the has a scheduling system which is really cool where you can choose what day of the weeks of the week and what times you want it to run and how often to repeat it so you can put the projector out and lock it up it's got that little thing on there so you can lock it up and then leave it plugged in and schedule it to run and kick off kick on automatically just kind of nice because when i was running my show i had to come home and put the projector out every night so scheduling it this way is a nice feature and that's it so 15 20 minutes ish to get something on your house that you can see and impress your neighbors with

Channel: Baird Manor

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Keywords: projection mapping, projection, luxedo, lightform, light form, digital decorating, adobe, after effects, holidays, halloween, haunted mansion, disneyland, disney world, haunt, light show, synchonized lights, atmosfx, talking pumpkins, baird manor, rocky mountain haunters, short throw, projector, easy projection mapping, festivefx, hauntworksfx

Id: Nds6HfHzpWc

Length: 22min 36sec (1356 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 20 2021