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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: changing patch on models

« on: November 27, 2023, 05:25:22 AM »

I went through the show and changed all universes to start at 1 and continue up through controllers. Part of my show dates back to PCB boards that are 15 years old, before the Falcon 48's and break out boards etc.

everything syncing nicely now.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / changing patch on models

« on: November 24, 2023, 02:18:27 AM »

Hi,

I have a Falcon 48 that has smart boards to control the pixels.

I have a working Map on ports 1-4

I try to edit, change or delete any models using ports 5-6 and 1-4 stop responding.

Its like there is auto mapping going on behind the scenes... I have spend hours trying to re- map very simple models to new ports that the pixels are attached to. No such luck....

I am lost now.

Its like i have a nasty patching bug stuck in myshow file.

I cant figure out how to send the config to the controller in X lites either. upload input and output are not available to click on

Not a newbie, its my 12th year doing this.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Software Slow Rendering Sluggish.

« on: September 14, 2016, 11:18:15 PM »

Just installed the latest version of the software...

Thinking I need a system hardware upgrade now?

I am running Windows 7
Intel Quad CPU @ 3Ghz
NVidia GeForce 9400 GT ( times 2 Displace adapter cards ) 4 x DVI out ports.
8 Gigs of Ram.

Older versions of the software run fine.

Any Ideas?

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / DMX Values

« on: October 31, 2015, 08:05:28 PM »

Hi -

In x4
Would like to be able to assign a DMX value from 0-255...

Using a DMX dongle to control Media playback, and media server is just quite fussy about the values.

o-100% does not add up to talking with the media. It wants to be 0-255 control on each channel.

For example

0- off
1- media play back 1
2- media play back 2
3 - media play back 3

221 -Media play back 221
through value 255

Any suggestions?

I am struggling to program around it.
Each value is so specific.

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Latest xLights/Nutcracker software / Re: Entec DMX USB Pro

« on: October 08, 2015, 03:22:56 PM »

Yes,

ENABLED column... Click on yes and no, turns it on and off now.

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Latest xLights/Nutcracker software / Entec DMX USB Pro

« on: October 03, 2015, 06:28:42 PM »

With the new Software V 4 BETA 4.2.13 

for the life of me I can not get the USB DMX dongle to enable DMX output.

the older software enables output just fine.
However with the settings COM4 DMX -- I receive no Errors for the COM communications.

However, will not SPIT DMX out.

Blinking Green Light no go. LOR and older Xlites enables it...

I have tried all available COM Ports. all trigger an error, accept for the port it is supposed to work on.
Ideas? Is my DMX Dongle not supported in this SW Version?

Thanks.

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General Software / Re: Coro Faces

« on: November 25, 2014, 08:32:31 PM »

I keep going through the Oct 9th Tutorial. Rel 3.4.17, New Papagayo tutorial, and still cant get the faces to work...
Some how in the Corofaces effect tab I can't get my model to turn on... But works in Bars or color wash.

Fixed the error problem but only by going back to a backup show folder.
Sequence plays with the mark up's but no lights....

2 days till thanksgiving to finish the show!

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General Software / Coro Faces

« on: November 25, 2014, 07:50:12 PM »

I have successfully Mapped out the phenoms in AUDACITY, created my .pgo file
I created a model with 8 channels, a starting channel number of 200 -207
mapped out those channels on the grid with #'s 1-8

In the papagayo tab, I choose my input file.
I choose corfaces
select my model name
then assign the channels #'s to the phenoms.

I can see in the nutcracker tab the effects running on my model under the bars effect.
However when running the sequence I did not see any animation,

I re-tried the steps again and get this error....

Getting an error now on the papagayo tab " Unable to load Papagayo settings file
I clik okay then get
XML parsing error: 'not well-formed (invalid token)' at line 4

This only effects the show Directory file location now...

Using my back up it works fine.

What Am I missing in the steps to make a coro face work?

Thanks,

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General Software / Re: house image for preview

« on: November 22, 2014, 11:01:05 AM »

Sean you are a wizzard!

The one small thing  "Part of my Display" That was hanging me up on the whole house model, and was over riding the Constant "ON" that I wanted.

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Nutcracker Effects / Whole House and Text Matrix

« on: November 22, 2014, 12:24:57 AM »

If my Text matrix is in the whole house model with a running effect, and I want to run an effect with words ontop of the whole house effect, how do I do so? Is it possible?

Also slightly confused on how the model columns interact with the effects being played back. Can anyone point me to a good tutorial or post on how to manage them ? I can successfully blend between two effects. But looking to do four or 5 effects at same time, Maybe I am not accomplishing this because I have a Whole house model involved?

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General Software / Re: house image for preview

« on: November 21, 2014, 07:54:06 PM »

thanks for the resize,

for some odd reason that one worked great on my laptop!
not so well on the Desktop, both same Win 7 setup, the desktop is just my show only machine, runs the Christmas light show only.

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side note I am still having the same issue using "BARS" to keep a DMX channel at full through a whole sequence on X lites. the effects running under whole house model are overriding the " Always on " effect I create in a second column. any ideas?

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General Software / Re: house image for preview

« on: November 21, 2014, 01:49:02 PM »

I am having the same issue getting my house image to show in the Preview window.
what did you do to fix this?

I tired jpeg, png, gif

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General hardware / Re: Whole House Model RGB conflicts

« on: November 18, 2014, 06:23:25 AM »

I think I have to order a Pixel Driver for the strings i was trying to control with a LOR CCR, they are not LOR strings but Chinese knock offs with 6803  chips,

I can't seem to change RGB config on the hardware side in the CCR controller.
With the Joshua Systems pixel drivers I am able to modify RGB Config.

Was wondering if there was a way on software side in WH model to make match because when selecting the model i could change RGB settings in set up of the pixel layout... but when building the WH model and choosing that for playback the string would default to Green and Blue switched.

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General hardware / Whole House Model RGB conflicts

« on: November 17, 2014, 09:08:48 PM »

Hi -

Under Nutcracker I can effectively control and change the RGB outcome of my CCR Ribbons when selecting just that string.

I am Sending E.131 to a DMX node, and connecting to a LOR CCR controller.
This is driving a CCR strip Via DMX.

When in Nutcracker I can properly assign the channels to control RGB in the Bars effect.
However when building a Whole house model the Blue and Green are swooped.

I have several other RGB ribbons but all being driven with the capability to switch the RGB configuration on the hardware side if the software side was not matching.

For some reason, regardless of the RGB setting under the model set up, The Whole house still is defaulting the Green and Blue to be switched.

Even after attempting a Channel offset, and changing RGB functionality in the Model set up, Still not displaying proper output colors, even though the preview output is matching all colors.

Also having verified in TEST that the mapping of RGB is actually Turing on RGB.

Kind of driving me nuts... any ideas?

Newest software version 3.6.4

Thanks

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General Software / Models in Nutcracker into Whole House

« on: November 09, 2014, 08:20:52 PM »

Feeling frustrated as I have a few LOR controllers running in DMX mode that are not translating the RGB commands  well into the whole house set up.

I have them set in the nutcracker sequence editor to match the RGB output colors properly, setting them as an RBG node.

When creating a whole house model, it seems to want to default to RGB... am I not saving something properly in the whole house model? also have tried offsetting DMX address, and arranging the RGB that way, still no work around... Whole house mode defaulting those RGB strips to represent the wrong color output.