Sean Meighan

Software => Enhancement Requests => Topic started by: thekameleon on March 16, 2021, 05:14:20 AM

Title: Candle Effect Hue / color
Post by: thekameleon on March 16, 2021, 05:14:20 AM

I'd like to see the ability to change the hue / color of the candle effect. It would be great to change it for say st Patrick's day to a green candle flame.

Title: Re: Candle Effect Hue / color
Post by: allknowing2012 on March 16, 2021, 06:51:22 AM

In the color panel,  move the Hue to say 15? Does that get what you want?

Title: Re: Candle Effect Hue / color
Post by: thekameleon on March 19, 2021, 07:16:53 PM

No, it has no effect.  The FPP manual explicitly states that the candle effect is only orange based.  This is why I am asking for an enhancement request, so we can have different colored candle flame effects

Title: Re: Candle Effect Hue / color
Post by: Gilrock on March 19, 2021, 07:36:06 PM

I just tried it and the Hue slider on the color panel does change the hue of the candle effect.

Title: Re: Candle Effect Hue / color
Post by: thekameleon on April 13, 2021, 10:51:45 AM

Hi Gil,
So I was able to modify the color a bit with the HSV values.  I got a yellowish green.  Ultimately I am looking to create a blue or green flame.  Any ideas on how to do that?

Title: Re: Candle Effect Hue / color
Post by: keithsw1111 on April 14, 2021, 04:13:38 PM

The hue slider Should be able to do that. The only thing it won?t be able to do is change the colour distance which is defined by the red/orange colour distance.

Title: Re: Candle Effect Hue / color
Post by: Gilrock on April 18, 2021, 04:43:00 PM

I can only guess you don't know where the Hue slider is.  Here's short GIF I made that shows me moving the Hue slider and the color changes to all the ones you wanted.

https://gph.is/g/Z2QwrP8 (https://gph.is/g/Z2QwrP8)

Title: Re: Candle Effect Hue / color
Post by: thekameleon on April 27, 2021, 10:25:35 AM

Hi Gil,
First thanks for looking into this.  Yes that is the same hue control I have been using. So i decided to use a matrix model and it clearly works with the matrix.  I then tried again with the DMX Flood Area model and it still doesn't work.  I am assuming that is a bug and I can open a ticket if you would like so it can be tracked. I included a video below.

https://youtu.be/pwtbIhwlpaQ (https://youtu.be/pwtbIhwlpaQ)

Title: Re: Candle Effect Hue / color
Post by: keithsw1111 on July 17, 2021, 08:27:08 PM

This is due to the fact that hue etc are never applied to DMX models. DMX models are an unusual beast in xLights with special handling which limits how they can be used. It is not trivial to fix this but it would be nice if we could.

Title: Re: Candle Effect Hue / color
Post by: thekameleon on August 13, 2021, 06:22:59 PM

Thank you for the explanation.  I changed the DMX floods to single node strings and it works as expected. Even though the models look wonky