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Nutcracker Effects / Re: P10 panel matrix appears low resolution for effects...

« on: November 29, 2017, 07:37:35 PM »

Thanks.

Increasing the gird size on the model helps a bit, but doesn't get all the way there...I think the upper limit of 2000 present the problem perhaps.

I'm going to have to probably rework some stuff so that I apply the effect directly to the matrix...that should work in most cases...but I have a few where I've got (like my example) a pinwheel centered on the matrix that extends out into other elements (making a really cool sweep of color)...

At least the reason makes sense now.

Thanks again

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Nutcracker Effects / Re: P10 panel matrix appears low resolution for effects...

« on: November 29, 2017, 06:50:50 PM »

OK, perhaps I've figured out what's happening (although i'm not sure how to fix it)

My yard is pretty big, so the matrix is small in comparison..when I apply an effect directly to the matrix, it renders fine at the proper resolution, but when I apply an effect to "whole house" which includes everything, it renders very blocky..I'm thinking due to how small it is on the "whole house" group model.

Does this make sense?

Attached are the model previews of my matrix...one with the pinwheel effect applied to the "whole house", and the other with the exact same pinwheel effect applied directly to the matrix....notice the difference in resolution of the diagonal lines.  The direct matrix effect is pretty much pixel level accurate, but the whole house one is using a much lower resolution.

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Nutcracker Effects / P10 panel matrix appears low resolution for effects...

« on: November 29, 2017, 04:30:09 PM »

Not sure exactly what’s happening, but when I add effects to my new p10 panel Matrix (4x5) im noticing that rendered effects appear very blockey....like 6x6 pixel blocky...

I still have some testing to do, but it’s definitely happening on old sequences that I’ve added the matrix to....

Is there a setting somewhere for “resolution” of effects?    Or perhaps I need to delete my fseq’s and re-render?

If this isn’t obvious I’ll try the fseq process and post some pictures.




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Nutcracker Effects / Re: Nodes

« on: November 29, 2017, 04:24:24 PM »

I'd like to know what you are building and why nodes need to be blanked out.  Why can't you just cut nodes off?  Or just wrap electrical tape around them.

+1 on what Gil is suggesting.

One side effect of blanking on the controller is that any effects in xlights will still utilize the nodes, they just won't "blink". So depending on the prop this might be noticeable if you are doing chases, for example. Take the time to do it right.

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A custom model can just skip those numbers as well.    Again it all depends on the use case/prop and how you want the effects to play out


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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Text effect only one line?

« on: November 21, 2017, 04:41:29 PM »

Most certainly....

Looks like an admin has to grant access to the wiki...any chance of getting an account to update these types of things? (very happy to do so)

It would also be great to get with the guys working on the manual (seems like that's a bit disjointed right now?)...the manual is pretty great...it would be sad to have it fall too far behind.

David

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Text effect only one line?

« on: November 21, 2017, 07:59:48 AM »

Ah, ok.

I was having some trouble figuring out how to do layer blending with multiple lines of text (overlaid with an effect showing through) that way and was having trouble wrapping my head around it--then I remembered it used to be 4 lines and I thought that would be easier...

We should update the documentation since both on the wiki and in the "manual" it references the 4 tabs still.

Thanks very much for the clarification

I'll go back to trying to figure out the layer blending

David

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Text effect only one line?

« on: November 21, 2017, 07:00:07 AM »

Im tweaking my sequences and looking to add multi-line text to my new matrix...

but for some reason my text effect can only have one line.  Did this change from the manual (which says 4 lines).

Looking at old versions, looks like this changed for me sometime in 2016 (the 2016.1 release has 4 tabs for text, but the 2016.50 release does not)

I'm on a MAC running HighSierra 10.13.1 if that matters.

I don't see any other notes on this--so I'm wondering if this is MacOS related?...or I'm looking in the wrong place for multi-line text?

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Show Assets / Re: Sharing My Sequences

« on: September 23, 2017, 06:39:13 PM »

Slight explanation for these...

I program both my Father-in-laws house as well as my own.... All of the above videos and sequences are from his because he has more models so I always do his first and then convert them over for mine, he however doesn't do Halloween....


Here are 3 sequences from my house this year for halloween... Ghostbusters, This is Halloween, Thriller

Videos of songs can be seen on facebook group page:
https://www.facebook.com/Rumley-Crew-Light-Show-435116513342097/

Sorry to resurrect this older thread!   Looks like the forum attachments aren't working for some reason (404 error)...

any chance anyone has these halloween sequences and can share them again?

* xlights_rgbeffects.xml (39.66 kB - downloaded 131 times.)
* Ghostbusters (192).xml (270.42 kB - downloaded 140 times.)
* NBC Intro - This is Halloween (192).xml (221.47 kB - downloaded 121 times.)
* Thriller (192).xml (268.1 kB - downloaded 126 times.)

Thanks!
David

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Forum attachments problem (older files)?

« on: September 23, 2017, 06:37:30 PM »

Hello!

I'm looking at several posts from October 2016 and older that have forum attachments.   All the attachments seem to be coming back with a page that just says 404.

Are those attachments lost to the ether?

An example would be pretty much all the forum attachments (especially post #11, but all of them) on this thread:  http://nutcracker123.com/forum/index.php?topic=1944.0

but I've found several other examples around the board of older attachments missing.

David

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Free Sequences / Re: Pen Pineapple Apple Pen

« on: December 17, 2016, 07:27:58 PM »

Totally Awesome!

Many thanks for sharing!

David

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Some models missing on Layout Tab, but available in sequence

« on: November 05, 2016, 09:32:17 AM »

Yep, that's it!

I did have "not part of my display" to get them out of the way on some..

Changing the preview setting (I didn't realize that would have an impact on the list) brings them back.

Thanks!
David

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Some models missing on Layout Tab, but available in sequence

« on: November 04, 2016, 08:58:57 AM »

I have some strange behavior with my models.

Background:
I'm using my models from last year, and I've upgraded xLights along the way all summer.

Most of my models from last year show up, but some do not.  In particular, it seems the ones that do not have the same start channel as ones that do (I have duplicate models for some of my elements so that I can have different pixel presentations--ie cora-flakes in actual positional layout vs a matrix layout)   

These models show up in "edit display elements" on the sequencer tab.

Couple of other strange points:
* Some of my model groups do not show up on the Layout tab.   
* When I edit model groups (or create a new one), I see the "missing" models listed and can add them to the group.   If I add them to a group, then they show up on the complete list on the layout tab.  If I remove them from that group, they drop off the complete list again.

So I can fix this by adding them to my "whole house" group, or some other group, but I'm wondering why they're not showing up on the complete list?  Mostly I'm concerned that there's something buggy in my rgb_effects file that might bite me later.

Attached is my rgb_effects file.