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What new effects you would like to see / Waving Flag effect

« on: July 14, 2014, 06:07:17 AM »

Can't help but think it would be cool to have a 'waving flag' effect.  Got the idea from seeing it on a message sign in front of a big furniture store.  Waving USA flag in background with text in the front.

I know I could render my own flag by converting a video... but combining it with other xLights/Nutcraker effects is a bit awkward.

p.s.  xLights/Nutcracker... BEST APP EVER!!!

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General Software / Nutcracker: Save As...

« on: April 24, 2014, 06:36:05 AM »

A suggestion for the xLights/Nutcracker dev team:

Save As...

Sure would be nice to save a project under a different name.  As I work on a sequence I like to periodically save my progress to disk so I can revert back to a previous version should I do something really stupid.  ProjectRevA, ProjectRevB, etc.

Please keep up the excellent work on this product!

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Xlights Setup / Preview Tab... mind of its own

« on: April 14, 2014, 09:48:11 AM »

My head hurts.

Created a sequence from scratch using xLights/Nutcracker 3.3.3.  Started under the 'Nutcracker' tab.  Have three models.  Added effects to each model at the appropriate times.  When I play each model in the 'Nutcracker' tab everything looks great. Turn on my live pixels and tears come to my eyes it looks so amazing. I make sure to press the 'Save Sequence' icon regularly. 

While still under the 'Nutcracker' tab I can make a tweak to a model effect, save the sequence, close down xLights/Nutcracker, reboot the computer, start the xLights/Nutcracker program, open my sequence, goto the 'Nutcracker' tab and all effects (including the recently tweaked ones) are there and everything looks fine. 

Now the weirdness.

I press the 'Preview' tab.  Open my sequence (I only have one so it's pretty easy to locate), press the 'play' button and the sequence starts... but it appears to be an earlier version.  I pause the playback, press the 'Nutcracker' tab, highlight the model I know is different than what is shown in 'Preview", confirm the effects are what I think, save, go back into 'Preview', open the sequence and I'm still on an earlier version.

Tried opening/saving/closing in every order I could think of trying to figure out what's happening.  My head hurts.

Even tried playing the sequence in a playlist of just this one sequence under my 'Playlist' tab.  It plays the same as the "Preview' tab... meaning not the same one as saved under the 'Nutcracker' tab.

I'm stumped.  Any suggestions?