Sean Meighan

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Title: Dimming curve process
Post by: baf05 on November 26, 2017, 03:11:00 AM
The controllers I am using don't have a dimming option so I was hoping to do it in xLights, or at least see if I need too.

However I find the process hit and miss, sometimes working sometimes not?  So I am figuring operator error.

I have been using the single brightness/Gamma sliding the brightness down too what ever value, I have even tried -100, click ok, then save.

But it does not appear to change anything.  Now this is not true for every attempt, it has worked in the past, took me ages to work out why something was not working, but I just tried then to turn down my tree, even too -100 and it didn't work.

Wondering if I am missing a step somewhere?
Title: Re: Dimming curve process
Post by: JonB256 on November 26, 2017, 06:40:59 AM
Your dimming curve goal is to make LED strings more linear in their dimming? (the most common reason)
Title: Re: Dimming curve process
Post by: dkulp on November 26, 2017, 08:05:25 AM

Did you re-render after adjusting them?   
Title: Re: Dimming curve process
Post by: baf05 on November 26, 2017, 03:06:40 PM
yeah re rendered, going to try today using the schedular
Title: Re: Dimming curve process
Post by: Gilrock on November 28, 2017, 05:01:51 PM
If you mean the brightness slider in the Colors Panel it only affects that one effect you have selected.  You need to do a dimming curve on the model but also realize the software reverses the dimming for the preview so you can see things.