Sean Meighan

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Title: How to model arches with a shared edge
Post by: LEDnewby on December 02, 2019, 04:29:46 PM

On the front of my house I have 3 posts in a line with a beam spanning across them. I’m trying to model this in xlights so that it acts like 2 arches, but with the center vertical being shared. I’ve physically strung bullet pixels up the left post across to the center post and then down. I then bring the data back up the center post and connect to pixels starting at top of center column across to right column and down.

I’ve got a Falcon F16v3 controlling things, and have been trying some different combinations of polyline models and sub models. I can get all the lights to lights up, but when doing a chase effect along one arch to the next can’t get the chase to behave as desired across the shared middle vertical.

Any tips would be appreciated.


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Title: Re: How to model arches with a shared edge
Post by: keithsw1111 on December 02, 2019, 07:17:32 PM

Create one model using custom model or polyline using a zero pixel segment ... then submodel to create your two arches.

Title: Re: How to model arches with a shared edge
Post by: LEDnewby on December 03, 2019, 08:48:01 AM

Thanks. I was able to get it working now. My sub models weren’t initially working as I was confused on how to properly apply nodes to Top, Bottom, etc. rows. Once I knew I was on the right track, a little more work cleaned it all up.


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