Sean Meighan
Software => Xlights Setup => Topic started by: Steven on November 30, 2014, 12:27:20 AM
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First, where is the xLights FAQ? I have a bunch of really basic questions (like what does "Persistent" do?)
I did a few effects (like Butterfly) that look great, but in one sequence I used Meteors and Fire, but the meteors go up the tree instead of down, and the fire is on the top of the tree instead of the bottom. What did I do wrong?
My tree has channels 1,2,3 as a bottom pixel; channels 148,149,150 as a top pixel; channels 151,152,153 as the next bottom pixel, etc.
I created a "Tree 360" model with 50 RGB Nodes per String and Start Channel 1. Since pixel 1 is at the bottom of one of the strings, and the strings go clockwise, I choose "Bottom Right" as the Starting Corner. It looks correct in the Nutcracker window, but when I export it as a Light-O-Rama LMS file, my effects are upside down!
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1. There is no FAQ at this time. This is free software with an all volunteer coding staff who have their own displaus to work on. Someday there will be a FAQ, but the emphasis at this time is to get the software working.
2. I seem to recall that when I first did my tree I also had my start at the bottom right corner and that messed everything up. Moved my start to the bottom left corner and then all was well, but I use a tree 180. I also recall that a tree 360 uses as the start point the back center. There is a "to do" item to provide more starting points, but that is a future item. However, that would not explain why your fire is going down or your meteors going in the opposite direction. I suspect you are looking at some hardware issue that allows a backward or forward orientation to your channels. You did not state what hardware you are using for your pixels.
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In the model screen press display nodes to see how we think your tree is wrapped
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Problem found. As usual, it was operator error.
In the Light-O-Rama Sequence Editor, I use one track as my master DMX track, and I copied channels from that track to my "Pixel Tree" track. In the Pixel Tree track, I wanted the top pixels to be on top, so the channels are in the reverse direction from the master DMX track.
Since I configured xLights to use the actual DMX channels, I should have pasted it into the master DMX track, but I pasted it into the Pixel Tree track instead.