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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: direction troubles on layout

« on: October 08, 2016, 10:12:25 PM »

 I was at a loss for what to try next so thanks so much for the help to get me going.  I built 4 sub-models for my window.  I then decided to change the Start Location back to Left and use my falcon F16v2 to control string direction.  When I checked out my model at the strand level it was now working great ... but my sub-models were now messed up.  It appears that whatever Start Location you build your model in you should stick with.
Thanks, I am now able to move on and keep sequencing! 
Happy Thanksgiving from Canada
Jean

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: direction troubles on layout

« on: October 07, 2016, 09:37:46 AM »

I re-downloaded the files i shared and tried restarting my computer.  Things still don't look right for me.
I have attached a couple of screen shots.  The bay window has 4 segments.  I drew the right segment first from bottom to top.  It is segment 1 (I have it highlighted in the screenshot).  So segment 2 should be the top (and I labelled it so).  Then if you move to the preview, I put an effect on segment2 (top) and 4(bottom).  It previews on the side [as seen in the other screen shot]. Not only that but it curls around the corner as my side piece has less pixels than my top/bottom.

And can I also clarify the starting location toggle a bit farther.  Should models always be set with Left (unless you wired your string the opposite way from the way you entered it in xlights).  This setting is just like the direction setting on the Falcon F16V2 and has no correlation to how it is drawn on the screen?

Thanks for the help.  It is really appreciated.
Jean

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / direction troubles on layout

« on: October 06, 2016, 10:20:17 PM »

I have 2 polyline models that are causing me trouble.  They were not playing right in real life compared to the preview.  I had built the bay window model differently in real life than the model so I tried to change the model to reflect where the real start corner was.  Now each segment appears right on the layout screen but in the model preview of the sequence the lights are confused (I think it draws it where it use to be but with the new updated number of nodes ... which pushes things out round the corners).  My garage door model is also having similar problems.  I was experimenting with this at the 2:35 mark.
Is there a way to update the sequence after you update the model? (I tried render and check sequence)
When it says starting location (left or right). What does this do? I thought it meant that if I drew the model from the left side of the screen towards the right but later determined that the lights went right to left I would just change this box.  It did not appear to work for me this way but by this point I was pretty confused.
Thanks for the help
Jean

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Crash trying to view nodes of a custom model

« on: September 14, 2016, 08:49:15 AM »

Great, thanks for the help as now I understand this process a lot better (you can totally tell I am newbie).  I crashed it again this morning to look more closely at the crash dialog box that comes up.  I see where I can write my description of what happened in the box.  I will send the reports only for crashing in different ways and not for things that seem simillar (I managed to crash yesterday in a few totally different ways).
As for double click on the row heading, instead of right click, it works like a charm.
This software and the support for it is amazing!  Thanks for all the hard work that you all put into it.
Jean

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Crash trying to view nodes of a custom model

« on: September 13, 2016, 10:14:53 PM »

I built a custom model for my spider eyes.  I then wanted to control each node of this model individually.  I can right click and toggle from the spider eyes model down to the eyez string level but when I tried to go from the eyez level to the node level it crashed.

I have been playing with xlights all day and it has crashed/locked up a few times.  I started out just thinking it was just newbie mistakes and headed on.  Then tonight I started thinking that maybe I am the perfect tester (capable of finding no end of bugs due to using the program in unconventional/unintelligent ways).  Do you want people to send all their crash reports?  Anyway here it is.