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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: wave effect not waving for me

« on: March 14, 2022, 09:16:47 PM »

Update...  I moved over to my old PC and the wave effect was working but I hadn't updated to 2022.06.  I updated to the latest version and the wave effect sopped working for me. 

So I switched back to my other PC which was on 2022.06 and moved it to 05 and the wave effect worked.

So looks like I found my problem.

Thanks!

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / wave effect not waving for me

« on: March 14, 2022, 08:58:41 PM »

I managed to really mess something up with the wave effect.  I apply the wave effect to a matrix for example and it shows the wave line but the wave doesn't move in the model preview or when I ply it.  I can max the speed and nothing happens.  I also tried resetting my xlights settings just to see if it would clear it up but no luck.  Other effect are working fine. 

I did have it working a few days ago when I was testing the wave effect on a cobe.  Then it just up and stopped.  I've tried it in a fresh directory too.

Any thoughts what I managed to mess up?

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: When I add a new model shouldn't it go after the model I have selected?

« on: March 02, 2022, 08:29:54 PM »

If I'm following it then it looks like you just build your display in the layout and not worry about the channel counts.  Then assign the models to the controller ports in the visualizer which makes the real world set up easier in the end.

I'll have to watch some videos on this and make sure I've got this right.  I haven't kept up on the latest changes obviously...

As always thank you for help!

Jason

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / When I add a new model shouldn't it go after the model I have selected?

« on: March 02, 2022, 07:30:46 PM »

Previously when I added a model to my layout it would add at the end of the model I selected.  Now when I add a model I have to select "controller > use start channel" and then select the start channel at the end of the model I want it to be at.

I thought models just added one after the other.  Any ideas what I managed to mess up?

Thank you,

Jason

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Nutcracker Effects / Re: Scrolling text up and start position.

« on: September 21, 2019, 03:13:45 AM »

That is awesome!  Thank you for answering and always being so nice!

Jason

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Nutcracker Effects / Scrolling text up and start position.

« on: September 20, 2019, 05:04:20 AM »

I have a sequence where I'm taking a word and scrolling it up on a mega tree from bottom to top.  The period of time though is too short to send the word from bottom to the top at the 50 speed. 

I tried changing the offset start position on the Y axis but the text still starts from the very bottom.  The Y axis adjustment works fine for words that have no movement set so I thought it would do the same for moving ones.

Is there a way to get the start position of the word higher on the tree for a moving effect?  While I can't speed it up more, unless there is a way to do that, I figured starting it higher would cover more of the tree.

Thanks!

Jason

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Apply effect to all models in a group seperately

« on: August 10, 2019, 04:42:54 PM »

Awesome thank you so much, I always missed that.

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Enhancement Requests / Apply effect to all models in a group seperately

« on: August 10, 2019, 08:46:31 AM »

Maybe this can already be done but I've never figured it out.  I would like to be able to pick an effect and apply it to a group of models but have that effect play on each model.  Not as an effect across the entire group.  Like a check box option "apply effect to all models separately".

So like if I have a group of wreaths the shockwave effect in this case when applied it would show across all the wreaths the same if selected.

Right now I just expand the group and apply the effect to each model in the group. 

Thank you,

Jason Portwood

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: A question about single color lights in groups

« on: June 15, 2018, 02:15:33 PM »

After going through what you said to do with the color numbers I see what you mean.  The colors behave exactly like you said. 

Also like you said to get a color not to come on in a group it does have to be a bit off the color codes.

I think in these cases I shouldn't use effects applied to the whole group for single color lights when I need more control.  I'll just expand the group and sequence it as needed.

Great explanation on how this works.

Jason

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / A question about single color lights in groups

« on: June 15, 2018, 05:20:31 AM »

I have some A/C lights that I've defined in xlights around some windows.  One strand of Red / White and Green on each window.  I have those in a group as well.   When I apply On with the color white selected to the group of all 3 windows (with the three colors) it turns on all the lights in each group.  If I select only red as the color it only turns the red lights on in the group.  Same for green - green turns only green lights on.  I've check each of the individual windows and they are all set to single color and the appropriate color selected. 

I thought the On with white selected would only turn white on in a group of single channel lights that are set to white?  If I don't have a color selected then all the colors are on too.

What am I missing? Shouldn't white just turn the white ones on?

Thank you,

Jason

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: need some advice on my layout

« on: May 25, 2018, 08:27:21 PM »

Thank you all for the information, it really helped me a lot.

Jason

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / need some advice on my layout

« on: May 24, 2018, 09:41:42 PM »

For a few years now I've done my layout like the image attached.  It's just an example, partly done.  Does this layout work well with xlights or am I better off with just a real world "I'm looking at it from the street" view?  I've made this style of layout work but this year I started wondering if I should change it.  That is if I'm doing this in a way that hurts more than helps.

Thanks for any advice on this.

Jason

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / custom ws2811 pixels

« on: May 20, 2018, 03:06:51 PM »

I wanted to build some custom WS2811 pixels using White/White/White instead of RGB for some props (candy candes).  Can WS2811s configured like that be sequenced in xlights? 

Jason

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: AC light cascade - how do you use it?

« on: October 02, 2017, 08:59:14 AM »

Thank you both.  I was totally missing how that worked.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / AC light cascade - how do you use it?

« on: October 02, 2017, 06:47:57 AM »

I started trying out the AC light features and I had some difficulties with it.  I managed though to get on/off and ramp up/down working - though I seem to have troubles getting it to effect.  The one feature I wanted to try was the cascade effect on some arches.  I would select the 8 arches and get the white box.  Then I'd click on the cascade button but it wouldn't light it up.

Anyone know what I'm missing by chance?

Thank you,

Jason