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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Problems Starting Xlights
« on: August 05, 2024, 10:56:55 AM »
The xLights installer should prompt you to install the VC++ Distributable....don't say no to that question.
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General hardware / Re: video drivers
« on: May 08, 2024, 01:00:53 PM »
OpenGL 2.0
Release date: September 7, 2004
Get a new laptop and thank me later. That version of OpenGL is 20 years old now. I was at a mini using someone else's laptop and was like OMG you guys have no idea how bad this is performing. No wonder people complain about the experience with the software.
Release date: September 7, 2004
Get a new laptop and thank me later. That version of OpenGL is 20 years old now. I was at a mini using someone else's laptop and was like OMG you guys have no idea how bad this is performing. No wonder people complain about the experience with the software.
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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Mac M3 Max 2024.10 never ending beach ball on model download or import
« on: May 07, 2024, 06:02:22 AM »
Well there are bugs that could be in that version depending on what is in your layout/sequence. Like apparently some people like to create a group that only has one model which my red center cross update caused a divide by zero error because the group height calculated as zero.
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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Getting malware alert
« on: March 26, 2024, 08:42:06 AM »
I found I never needed anti-virus or anti-malware software as long as I could keep the wife and kids off my computer...lol.
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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Getting malware alert
« on: March 25, 2024, 12:34:44 PM »
I believe xLights does try to do a version check to see if you need an update maybe that's triggering this. On Windows that should be checking https://xlights.org/downloads/
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Xlights Setup / Re: Gamma settings
« on: March 19, 2024, 07:30:14 AM »
Primary colors don't need gamma adjustments so its only the off colors where you would see a benefit because that's where color blending is occurring. But normally you would set gamma and leave it there.
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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: xLights 2024-04 Polylines Set to Single Color Issues
« on: March 12, 2024, 09:56:21 AM »
Better to log this on GitHub. I'm a good person to check into this but I won't remember to come back to the forum for it.
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Xlights Setup / Re: Gamma settings
« on: March 12, 2024, 09:52:54 AM »
Controller section in xLights is only for pushing settings to the controller. If you don't push the settings that section is basically useless except for maybe defining the channel ranges. Dimming curves change the data stored in the FSEQ file. Controller settings change the data right before it's output. The controller won't have any idea that gamma was applied if its done by a dimming curve so if you set it manually in the controller it can double apply it. You need to quit manually setting things up in the controller.
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Xlights Setup / Re: Gamma settings
« on: March 11, 2024, 12:56:45 PM »
Then don't do dimming curves in xLights.
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Xlights Setup / Re: Gamma settings
« on: March 11, 2024, 08:44:35 AM »
It depends. How are you changing gamma in xlights? Are you using a dimming curve or are you setting gamma in the controller connection property for the modeL?
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Xlights Setup / Re: Gamma settings
« on: March 05, 2024, 12:00:36 PM »
The progress is always documented here:
https://github.com/xLightsSequencer/xLights/discussions/4260
I've had a few weekends in a row where I'm busy and not able to make progress plus I've spent time working on other xLights issues. Most of the things left are nice to have's and not a showstopper from it being able to be used immediately. There has been very little feedback.
https://github.com/xLightsSequencer/xLights/discussions/4260
I've had a few weekends in a row where I'm busy and not able to make progress plus I've spent time working on other xLights issues. Most of the things left are nice to have's and not a showstopper from it being able to be used immediately. There has been very little feedback.
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Xlights Setup / Re: Gamma settings
« on: March 04, 2024, 12:44:17 PM »
Its just like brightness. You can change it in xLights or change the settings in the controller. The controller connection is going to just push it to the controller whereas the old days you had to do it manually. Just like brightness if you do it in both places it gets a double correction. Not sure it matters where you do it but I prefer controller settings because they are more obvious when you look at the controller's webpage.
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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: xlights crashes when importing a sequence.
« on: March 04, 2024, 12:41:37 PM »
Yes this was reported an fixed the same day it was released. Not sure why they didn't just push out another release cause seems like its hitting everyone.
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General Software / Re: New Moving Head Effect/Model
« on: January 12, 2024, 12:44:13 PM »
I fixed a few bugs and features that weren?t working right yesterday. Didn?t want it to be a bad experience right out of the gate.
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General Software / Re: New Moving Head Effect/Model
« on: January 12, 2024, 12:43:01 PM »
I?m pushing to have something done this weekend