Sean Meighan
Software => Nutcracker Autogenerate Sequence => Topic started by: flyinverted on October 25, 2014, 08:27:58 PM
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Here is how you can auto-generate effects from your saved presets.
You will need Notepad++ and a Google account to use Google Spreadsheets. If you have Excel, that's even better.
1. Open Notepad++ and navigate to your xlights folder, open your xlights_rgbeffects.xml file
2. Highlight and copy only the lines that start with <effect name =
3. Paste that into a new text file, save as effects.txt
4. Start Excel open the, txt file you just saved. Select delimited and " as the delimiter.
5. The effects will be in column D and should start with the effect name as you see it in xlights.
Note the <effect name="Fireball" settings=" prefix should be gone. You can also manually remove this from
each line in the text editor if you do not have Excel.
6. Highlight all the effects in column D and copy.
7. Start a Google Docs spreadsheet and paste the effects into column B
8. Paste the following in to A1
=index($B$1:$B$30,randbetween(1,30))
9. Change the $B$30 to match the last row that has an effect. If you have 15 effects then change $B$30 to $B$15
10 Copy that formula to every cell you'd like a random effect in Column A and press enter.
Column A should now have a randomly selected cell from your Column B
11. Copy column A
12. Paste into your Nutcracker editor Window for the model of your choice.
To regenerate random effects in the Google Docs spreadsheet, just type a single character in any empty cell and press enter.
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cool!
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Just what I was looking for - thanks!
One suggestion I have is to create a group of effects to fit your particular model (or model type anyway) since some work better on different models. That way when you cut/paste the effect list, you only grab the ones you need for that model.
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I am tring to auto generate arches. would this work if I wanted to save straight line effect only just for arches?