Sean Meighan
Welcome => Do You Need Help? Post it here => Topic started by: bwinter on November 13, 2016, 04:37:56 PM
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I'm having a very simple problem, and think I"m just overlooking something.
I have a simple two-segment poly-line over the eve/peak of my garage. Xlights has labelled Strand 1 as the left eve (sloping upwards towards the peak) and Strand 2 as the right eve (sloping down from peak). STARTING LOCATION (location of the 1st node) is set to RIGHT (as my controller is on the right side): my 1st 25 nodes are on right side (Strand 2) and 2nd 25 nodes are on left side (Strand 1).
It seems a little odd that Strand 2 is actually the first set of nodes (closest to controller).
However, when I have a basic ON for each segment individually, the two segments appears swapped between my rendered sequence, versus how it plays in my test strand: Strand 1 is RED (left side, furthest from controller) is RED in Xlights, but plays back as WHITE in my test-strand. Likewise, Strand 2 is also reversed.
I have the same configuration on the right side of my house (similar peak), but since the controller is set to LEFT, everything is fine.
Any thoughts what I'm missing?
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PolyLine model is broken for controller set to right side. I tried to fix it several weeks ago and ran into problems. Its not an easy fix so might not get done this year.
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I seemed to have similar problems when I started working with single-lines (before switching to poly). Do you know if single-lines have the same problem, or are they okay?
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I seemed to have similar problems when I started working with single-lines (before switching to poly). Do you know if single-lines have the same problem, or are they okay?
Looking back (and switching to single-line), I think my issue was that I wasn't paying attention to where the BLUE/GREEN dots were. If I put BLUE at the start position, GREEN at the end, everything seems fine.
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For single lines I always recommend to not put the blue dot on the left because you will find that the model reacts differently when its in a group versus by itself. For Single Line model put the green dot on the left and then change controller position to right. That model should work fine.