Sean Meighan

Software => Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker => Topic started by: Steve Gase on January 01, 2015, 11:31:57 PM

Title: Problem with Single Color models when using # of lights per String
Post by: Steve Gase on January 01, 2015, 11:31:57 PM

I had problems the other day using single color string to drive a fogger.

I wanted to make the single channel more visible on the screen (instead of a single dot) and used the "Display As: Star" and used "# of points: 6" and "# of lights per String: 100"

The fogger didn't go off, but it did seem as if the star would light in the visualizer.

In my attempt to track this down I wrote a perl script to selectively "Dump" the values of channels in my .xseq file and found that the channels in question were not being set.

I tried to adjust model intensity upward, and the Combined Effect also had a Brightness control that I brought up to max.  Still no difference.

I backed out the changes (display as single string, number of points 1, number of lights 1) and was able to get this to work for my show.

Tonight I attempted to reproduce the problem back to the simplest definition.

I have have defined 3 models... FloodWhite, FloodRed, and FloodRGB.  I found that when the single color strings are using 100 lights, I have a problem with the RedFlood (channel 2) but the others are working.  If I change RedFlood to 1 light, then it works.

In my show the issue was more pronounced...  multiple models failed.  But this should be enough to observe the problem.

I've attached a zip with one directory with the problem files... another directory with everything working.  (I also included my perl Dump-xseq.pl script.)