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Software => Nutcracker Models => Topic started by: mharnish on February 21, 2016, 11:10:40 AM

Title: Incan Spiral Tree model
Post by: mharnish on February 21, 2016, 11:10:40 AM

Is there a way to create a Spiral MegaTree model that will give a somewhat close representation of what the effects will look like on the tree?  I am switching to xLights from Vixen 3 this year and am still trying to get a feel for everything.  Vixen didn't really have a way to properly represent the spirals so it was a lot of guess work on how the effect would look on the tree.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Incan Spiral Tree model
Post by: Gilrock on February 21, 2016, 11:21:39 AM

What is a Spiral MegaTree...a bunch of A/C strings wrapped in a spiral?  If so I don't think we provide a canned way to show that.  You can draw your own custom model.  Not everything in my yard is perfectly represented on my preview.  I use a flat matrix to sequence things and I'm able to imagine how it will look once translated to the real lights.

Title: Re: Incan Spiral Tree model
Post by: mharnish on February 21, 2016, 11:28:45 AM

Yeah it is a Mega tree with the normal strands up and down the tree but then you also take strings and wrap them around the tree to make a spiral effect.  All AC channels, I'm running them with Renard SS24's.

Title: Re: Incan Spiral Tree model
Post by: gerry on February 21, 2016, 02:50:33 PM

On the Wiki , under Custom models - there are two spiral tree models that folks have supplied.
Maybe they will help ?

Title: Re: Incan Spiral Tree model
Post by: mharnish on February 21, 2016, 03:12:47 PM

Those are actually LED/Pixel trees where it is a single strand, not the more traditional megatree wrapped with multiple strands of incans.

Thanks for the suggestions though.

Title: Re: Incan Spiral Tree model
Post by: Boomer on February 21, 2016, 08:29:46 PM

Have been looking for the same thing too....

Andy Harrison showed how he did it in a short video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCllZnSwMdM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCllZnSwMdM)

and shared his model in this post http://nutcracker123.com/forum/index.php?topic=1594.msg9457#msg9457 (http://nutcracker123.com/forum/index.php?topic=1594.msg9457#msg9457)

Title: Re: Incan Spiral Tree model
Post by: mharnish on March 03, 2016, 01:04:16 PM

Excellent, I will take a look.  Thanks!