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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Sequence lighting intensity

« on: February 18, 2017, 12:40:41 AM »

An update...
I have a number of E6804's, a Pixlite 4 and a F16V2. The only controller with capabilities to adjust brightness is the F16V2. I've spent the day going through some of my gear and updating the firmware on controllers as they haven't been run for over 12 months. All went well, except for realising the inability to control the brightness. So, for now I have gone into XL and adjusted the brightness per model. I'm sure I'll have to make further adjustments down the track. Just thought I'd share in case anybody was interested in the outcome. 

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Sequence lighting intensity

« on: February 12, 2017, 08:23:48 PM »

Thanks Gil. I'll probably do the same and control the brightness at the controllers. I wasn't even thinking about that option when I posted my query. This year brightness/intensity will be important as this new house is only 20' from the road.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Sequence lighting intensity

« on: February 12, 2017, 07:31:25 PM »

I'm making the transition from HLS to XL and have a query regarding lighting intensity across a sequence. In HLS I used the Master Lighting Channel to set the lighting intensity for the entire sequence. HLS also has the ability to set multiple lighting channels and can be used for any grouping of channels.
My query is, does XL have a similar function? I see I can set intensity per effect, but not per sequence. I looked through the manual, but didn't find anything. Maybe I just had a bloke (man) look. Any help is appreciated.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: HLS to XL4 Ghosting of effects

« on: February 11, 2017, 06:26:09 PM »

Any chance you can send me your hls file. I want to rework the hls import to be more like the XLights one but I don't have a hls file to test with.

Sure, here you go
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8qME2bHdpgqLVFnamF1YTN6LVU/view?usp=sharing

This is just the hlsidata file. Is that all you need? If you need anything else, just let me know.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: HLS to XL4 Ghosting of effects

« on: February 11, 2017, 01:51:11 PM »

All is good now. A very big thank you for all the help.
For those that are interested, my sequence of events are as follows (really quite easy)
Opened HLS sequence.
Removed pixelplanes that weren't going to be part of new setup (new house for 2017)
Removed models/channels that weren't going to be part of new setup
Saved new setup/sequence in HLS
Exported newly saved sequence in HLS
Setup Xlights to reflect setup in HLS (with same universe/channel setup)
Open new sequence in Xlights
Choose MP3 and add timing if wanted
Click on done
Click on settings tab, sequence settings, Data Layers tab, then import
Choose previously exported file from HLS export files folder (.hlsidata)
Choose lights off at end (or not, your choice)
Allow conversion process to take place (each of mine took less than 30 seconds!!!)
Click on Done
I then clicked on Render All
Save sequence
Done!
(New setup in Xlights only had to be done once and then used for each conversion)

I was super impressed as each sequence I converted too less than 10 minutes from start to finish!
I then went and created new universes/channels in the setup tab, to reflect new models for 2017
New models were hen created in layout tab.
Opened a previously saved sequence, edit display elements, Add views and created a new view, including new models, saved.
The whole process really was that easy. I was overthinking it previously and thinking it was going to be much harder than it was.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: HLS to XL4 Ghosting of effects

« on: February 09, 2017, 03:05:48 PM »

 I've been out of the lighting thing for 12 months and just getting back into it. I haven't looked at lights or software during that time, so I guess I've missed some things and forgotten some things.
Okay, I'm trying to understand how this works and ultimately how it affects my sequences and the direction I take.
Is the data layer one piece of data dropped on the sequence?
That would mean that parts can't be removed/deleted, but can be overwritten with new effect?
So, what I am trying to do, can't be done?
If that is the case, is there another way?
I have a number of sequences that I have created/edited from 2013 to 2015 in HLS. During that time we moved house and I just removed some models and added other models.
2017 is another start, again in a different house. I was hoping to use old sequences and adapt to new house and convert to XL at the same time. Ultimately I would like to go forward with XL and hopefully use most of my previous sequences. Is there a way I can do this?

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Nutcracker Effects / Block style font

« on: February 26, 2014, 03:50:50 PM »

I'm not sure if I'm asking this in the correct place. If not, I apologise.
I have a small matrix that I am hoping to scroll some text across. It is only 5 pixels high so I was looking for a block style font to use. I have tried a bunch of the fonts available in Nutcracker with some success but was hoping there was a block style font available, as the fonts I've used so far have some anomalies. I have attached a pic of a style I am looking for. Is this style of font available?


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