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Enhancement Requests / Re: Automated backup of sequences

« on: January 04, 2016, 06:26:03 AM »

One of the benefits of Dropbox.  Every time I hit save it creates a version that lasts for 30 days.  Very helpful for the 'Oh S' moments when you save and need to step back.

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Xlights Setup / Re: Arch help....no doubt a simply solution

« on: December 09, 2015, 05:24:14 AM »

I have a few that are like that.  Where the default for the model is bottom left, I make the others bottom right.  Re-render the sequence and done.

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Show Assets / Re: Nutz4lights Shared Sequences

« on: December 08, 2015, 09:34:03 PM »

Thank you!

Here is another set of files for Let It Go by the Idina Menzel.

Video is located this thread:  http://nutcracker123.com/forum/index.php?topic=2251.0

Enjoy,

-Louie

Louie,
Which version of Let It Go did you use?  I've purchased 2 so far, and none have the 4 second breeze intro

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Latest xLights/Nutcracker software / Re: release 4.2.24

« on: November 23, 2015, 06:19:22 PM »

Or how about the "add to custom colors" actually storing the custom colors.

I've written an Excel macro that parses the RGB effects file & displays all of the colors stored.  I can then use that to reduce my number of pallets and verify all of my blues, reds, greens, etc are  consistent.

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Screen Lock

« on: October 06, 2015, 08:41:47 AM »

I've done 90% of my sequencing on my laptop.  I try to not even open xLights on my 27" dual setup at the office because I don't want to know what I'm missing.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Where did all my work go!!!!

« on: October 03, 2015, 02:57:54 PM »

Google drive also works.  With DB, you can go online & restore back to a previous version.  The history keeps for 30 days

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Where did all my work go!!!!

« on: October 03, 2015, 01:08:19 PM »

One of the [many] reasons I use Dropbox [for everything].  Every time I hit save things are backed up.  If I ever want to go back to a previous version, I just restore to that one.

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Bugs (Please dont post here, soon to be deprecated) / Re: Effects will not drop

« on: October 01, 2015, 05:28:27 PM »

Sometimes if I'm not zoomed in far enough into the timing, I can't paste a copied effect into a time slot.  Never tried adding a model from scratch & had that happen though.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Shockwave Effect

« on: September 25, 2015, 03:44:43 PM »

I see Galaxy has the same step angle :-)

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Shockwave Effect

« on: September 25, 2015, 10:19:23 AM »

Sometimes it does, but for me it needs to be refreshed pretty often.  Some effects will only partially show until I re-render.   I do have render on save turned on,  and could turn that off.

For now though, I'll finish the show with the latest production build, then use the one I modified last night to do the final file.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Shockwave Effect

« on: September 25, 2015, 05:46:32 AM »

Another thought, since the stepping is applied to the effect in a global manner, what if there was an overall application option to "Fast Render", or "Detailed Render", the difference for this effect would be the 0.5 vs 0.1.  I could see while building a show & rendering every time I save or want to see everything, it could be a beating to wait 5x longer (especially as I make it further into a song).  However if the option was there to create the detail when I was completely finished with the sequence, waiting wouldn't be near as painful.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Shockwave Effect

« on: September 24, 2015, 10:38:46 PM »

Ok I can reproduce it.  It only happens on really big models like the entire house.  It's because I'm stepping around the circle in 0.5 degree increments.  The further out you get the chance for holes appears.  I experimented with 0.1 degrees and the holes went away for the size model group I tested with.  It makes rendering that effect take 5 times longer.  The holes your are seeing form what is called a "moire" pattern.  No matter what angle step you use it will always occur it just moves the effect further out when you use smaller angles.

I downloaded the source tonight and gave the  0.1 a shot.  That filled all of my gaps, but like you said it took the rendering time up from 8 seconds to 50.  I think I'll be ok with that though :-)   A slider or some pre calculation way to adjust it could be a good add.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Shockwave Effect

« on: September 13, 2015, 08:48:26 AM »

Thanks Gil.  I'm assuming you can you only adjust the angle in the code.  I would sacrifice the rendering time if it would fill in a portion of the holes.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Shockwave Effect

« on: September 12, 2015, 10:52:03 PM »

Well the effect works perfect on a single model so I think it must have something to do with that being a model group.  Do all the pixels light up with other effects?

Thanks Gil.  Yes, I use Morph, Wave, Curtain, Color Wash, On etc and those all work as l would expect.  I'll share my show if that would help.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Shockwave Effect

« on: September 12, 2015, 05:33:38 PM »

Sorry,
I have a vertical string going up the side of my house made up of 26 nodes, so yes it is part of the whole house model/grouping.   Typically the holes show up on the far extents of the wave, but it looks odd when most of the pixels light, but then there are gaps.  I can change the radius/width/x/y to different values, but there are always some pixels that get skipped.  It just feels like it should be a smooth transition.

Here is another shot of the preview at the very end of the effect