Grayscale not functioning

Ok.

In any case you can see that there is variable power based on the texture that’s visible.

So a few things possibly going on:

  1. you may not have enough variability in grayscale from lightest to darkest in the source image. If you review the linked Topic I have a post that illustrates how the entire grayscale gradient gets mapped to min and max power. If you do not use the full 256 range of values you’ll be working in a reduced band of power variation.
  2. What is the lowest power that your laser will fire? I’d suggest setting that to your min %
  3. You want max power to be the highest value that you’d want being used for absolute black
  4. Once min and max are set adjust speed to get the level of burn that you want overall.

You can use this gradient for testing.