Sean Meighan

General => Show Assets => Topic started by: bobbert on February 28, 2016, 06:03:52 PM

Title: Effects here are they stored
Post by: bobbert on February 28, 2016, 06:03:52 PM

Where are the effects preset stored. How do to save ones from a shared sequence?

Title: Re: Effects here are they stored
Post by: kevinp on February 28, 2016, 06:51:03 PM

The saved presets are located in the xlights_rgbeffects.xml file within the show folder.  You can copy and paste from one xml to another for a shared preset.  Be sure to place it within the preset section of the xml.  Back up your original xml file first before you mess with it just incase you need to go back to it.

Title: Re: Effects here are they stored
Post by: bobbert on February 29, 2016, 10:12:53 AM

 in the xml file, how are they listed in groups or as single enters?

Title: Re: Effects here are they stored
Post by: kevinp on February 29, 2016, 10:52:25 AM

If you open the xml file up you will see a tag labeled <effectGroup name="your group name"> followed by a effect name tag with all of the information pertaining to the effect that is stored.

You'll want to use a proper xml editor so that the formatting is easier to read.

Title: Re: Effects here are they stored
Post by: mararunr on February 29, 2016, 11:27:05 AM

I would suggest Notepad++ for your xml editor

Title: Re: Effects here are they stored
Post by: sean on February 29, 2016, 01:01:09 PM

Quote from: mararunr on February 29, 2016, 11:27:05 AM

I would suggest Notepad++ for your xml editor

I would also enable the XML plug in that is available in Notepad++, very nice

Title: Re: Effects here are they stored
Post by: bobbert on March 01, 2016, 01:15:33 PM

I have the xml plugin enabled. Still do not see any thing like what you xml.png shows. Done a search in the xlights_rgbeffects_xml file and the sequence file. None of the effect preset that I named are int either one.

Title: Re: Effects here are they stored
Post by: flyinverted on March 01, 2016, 01:29:48 PM

Here is what the preset look like on one of my configs.

Title: Re: Effects here are they stored
Post by: bobbert on March 03, 2016, 11:00:22 AM

There is no listing of <effectGroup name=" in either the sequence or the rgbeffect xml files. Which file are the saved in? I upgraded the 2016.9 all that is list is layers.

Title: Re: Effects here are they stored
Post by: Gilrock on March 03, 2016, 11:24:33 AM

They are in the rgbeffects file.  Maybe you don't have any in the file you are looking at.  They start at the <effects> tag.  It's possible to have no <effectGroup> tags because they only exist if you created groups for your presets.