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Hi ,

I need some advice to start up my new project.
For a new artwork I need to work with a (flexibel) led screen.
My only experience is working with a beamer. I work with resolume arena 4.

Project:
Led screen in the shape of a cone . Top off the cone is off.
Sizes: section outer circle:4 meter, section inner circle: 2mtr, hight: 1 mtr).
I have a stable 'cone' shape structure, the led screen will be wrapped around it .
Visual = smooth gradient shifting colorfield. On top of this colorfield going white lines from bottom to the top.

1. Is working on a ledscreen the same as with a beamer? As in with the use of the program. Or is it a different setup in the software?
2. Can I program it without leaving my laptop/resolume connected?
3. Is there any way I can order a 12x1 meter ledscreen and get triangle shapes out so I can make the desirable shape. And still make the lines go from top to bottom. So the leds stay connected even though there are parts not in use.

Hope to get some proper advice to help me started.

LED screens are a different animal.
There is a specific output map you HALF to match to the T of whomever mapped the wall.
There are a few different LED processor companies out there, but it sounds like you will just be the visual tech, and that someone else will be the hardware tech, yes?
If so, get with whomever is going to by physically building the walls and ask for their pixel map. This will tell you how you need to map your output window.
Your output window mapping will never change from how they sent the pixel map. All of your work will now be done in the input map section of the advanced output.

Getting in custom LED pieces to test with will be very expensive. TBH anything other than your typical square or rectangle LED panels is very expensive to get in general. and it's even a bigger pain to setup and map (as a system's tech)

If you need a 3D visualizer software to test with, You could try getting a free version of Touch Designer, and building a 3D model of your cone, then connect a Spout input to the shape's texture and then output your Resolume via spout into Touch Designer. From here you can play around with your input map in Resolume to see how it will turn out in real life.