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Title: LOR Animation Sequence & AC Lights
Post by: CraigB on October 16, 2016, 11:31:25 AM

I am moving from LOR to xLights this year and have two questions.

• I have a flicker animation that I used for my blowmold candle flames in LOR that was constantly on in the background. How do I accomplish the same in xLights?
• I have some blowmold props that I would still like to use and am planning to use my LOR boxes as DMX to control these. Would I make the models for these a single strand of 1 for each prop?

Thanks,
Craig

Title: Re: LOR Animation Sequence & AC Lights
Post by: Gilrock on October 16, 2016, 02:19:31 PM

For #1 do you want to know how to do a flicker or how to run a sequence in the background?  What are you planning use to run your show?   Most of us use an FPP.  For #2 it's up to you....either way works fine.

Title: Re: LOR Animation Sequence & AC Lights
Post by: CraigB on October 16, 2016, 06:45:50 PM

For the first one I was going to use the fire effect (unless there is a better way), but not sure how to run it in the background all the time.

I will be using FPP this year for everything. Only going to use the LOR boxes to control the AC lights through FPP.

Title: Re: LOR Animation Sequence & AC Lights
Post by: Gilrock on October 16, 2016, 10:32:11 PM

I did this video in the past to show someone how to create their own custom candle flicker effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwmbDLTM7xQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwmbDLTM7xQ)

You can export a model's effects as an .eseq file which can be used to play a background sequence in the FPP.