Sean Meighan
Software => Nutcracker Models => Topic started by: ktrbmn12 on November 22, 2014, 10:18:51 PM
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I was playing a pinwheel effect on my mega tree tonight and I notice the center of the spinning was pointing to my neighbors on the left instead of towards the street. It was off 90 degrees to the left. I went back and noticed the same issue in other sequences. Here is my model setup. When looking at the tree from the street the first string is on the right side. I did a test on were the first bulb was and it was right side first one on the bottom. Is my setup wrong? In the preview screen everything is facing forward why When I actually play it on my tree it is 90 degrees to the left?
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i dont use 360 degree trees. mine are 180.
did you try moving the x position slider to change the center of the rotation?
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That was the first things I tried. I think if I rewire the tree so the first string is in the back middle instead of the right side it should move everything 90 degree to the right.
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If I remember correctly the first string should be on the left of the tree and it should go counter clockwise for best results.
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360 degree trees start from the back.
Matt
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You can also adjust the start channels for the individual strings. I had to do this to get xLights and HLS to cooperate. HLS puts the first string to the left (9:00 position) whereas xLights want's it in the back. Very frustrating. Basically, I had to specify the starting channel for each strand with the lowest going to the one in the 9:00 position to match HLS. Then going down from there and wrapping around. Thus, xLights still sees the first strand as being in the back, but that's mapped to much higher channels. Attached a screen shot.
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