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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Support for Animated Lighting AC Controllers?

« on: January 05, 2022, 04:18:12 AM »

I once used Animated lighting controllers and the animation Director software to do AC lights shows.  I tried many different ways to bring that into the pixel realm, but in the end ended up just selling off all the Animated lighting gear and buying falcon controllers and using FPP.  Was the best thing I ever did.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Noticed this before, and that I'm doing more testing, I'm seeing this:

« on: May 26, 2021, 01:51:35 PM »

Yeah, it is something to do with the program.  If a simple effect does not do it I would check that your mappings are correct and that allow blending between models is not checked in the sequence settings.  Also if you are using layers, check that you dont have something overriding them.  Have you done the "Tools->Check Sequence"

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Noticed this before, and that I'm doing more testing, I'm seeing this:

« on: May 26, 2021, 12:35:08 PM »

To isolate the issue I would do the following in this order to help

• Use the Falcon color wash test to see if they are all the correct color.
• If they are all the correct color I would create a simple sequence of chase using single strand and slow it down so you can see it.  Run that over a cycle to see if that misgehaves.
• if it is a complex effect check that you do not have layers bleeding into each other.  there are a few setting that do this to allow for different effects.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Noticed this before, and that I'm doing more testing, I'm seeing this:

« on: May 26, 2021, 04:49:39 AM »

Typically for me I see this when a pixel is going bad, or if there is an issues with the data wire.  If it is a long run that can cause issues as well depending on what controller you are using.  Are you doing a simple color sweep or some effect?  Are they staying on at the end of a sequence?  Are you playing from xlights or a pi player?

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Enhancement Requests / have ability to have sequence name different than filename

« on: November 29, 2020, 06:20:14 PM »

It would be nice if the FPP and xlights could have a file name of say mysequence.fseq but have meta data that the shown name will be My Sequence.  Some programs use the fseq to show the name of the current sequence and having a mapping or meta data to have a user-friendly name would be nice

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Scrolling Vertical Text

« on: December 31, 2019, 03:24:48 AM »

Thanks, Gil that worked perfectly. 

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Scrolling Vertical Text

« on: December 30, 2019, 09:20:09 AM »

I plan on adding 3 -  6x100 vertical matrix on my house and thought it would be nice to display a message on there.  I was trying to add the Tune to information and have it set for the 5x6 thin font scrolling up with the effect vertical text down.  It does not scroll from the bottom to the top and roll-off?  It appears that it just scrolls up and stops once the message is on the matrix.  How do I get this to scroll all the way off the vertical matrix and to cycle through the message starting at the bottom and having it scroll all the way off and repeat?

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Nutcracker Effects / Re: How can I get an expanding circular wipe?

« on: December 12, 2019, 11:41:32 AM »

I would look at doing the shockwave with black as your initial color and then the final color as a second one.  You could use layers to improve the look as well

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / modify x axis for shader effects

« on: December 07, 2019, 12:06:11 PM »

I am trying to figure out how to move a whole house shader effect on the x axis so it is more centered on my display.  my display is not even and it would be nice to move it offset a little

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Music is cutting out since upgrading to .62

« on: November 02, 2019, 04:53:54 PM »

Hi All,

Have noticed that when working on a sequence the music will cut out for a period and then come back.  This did not occur under .61.  Is anyone else noticing this?

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Falcon Pi Player / Re: Playing Video for a projection mapping

« on: October 29, 2019, 04:26:29 AM »

Yes, if you set you pi's up in a master/remote mode. I am doing that with a video for Halloween. 

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Geting lots of ERR: Effect contains very old value curve. Click on this effect

« on: September 02, 2019, 09:21:18 AM »

I ran check sequence on a file from last year and am now getting lots of 

ERR: Effect contains very old value curve. Click on this effect and then save the sequence to convert it.

in the check sequence check.  Is there anyway to fix this other than clicking each one?  There are hundreds of them in the output.

Thanks

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Select inner object in 3D layout

« on: January 20, 2019, 06:01:22 AM »

Hi All,

Trying to set-up my layout in the new 3D and am having trouble figuring out how to select a model that is inside another model. I have dual arches that have a larger outer and smaller inner arch.  I cannot figure out how to select the inner one to move it without having to move the larger one out of the way first and then put it back.  Am I missing something?

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Videos showing the features of the "New" 3D stuff

« on: January 15, 2019, 04:32:50 PM »

I just want to post that all of you developers do an amazing job and I am sorry that some people cannot just be happy that they have access to you and to get to use this great software.  Gil, Dan, Keith, Shawn and any others have done an amazing job.  I wish people could just accept that if it is not the way they want, write your own or move on.  I for one will always appreciate the massive amount of work all of you put it.  Don't let the trolls get you down.  Plenty of us support you.

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Ability to print out models and what ports they are connected to on falcon

« on: November 26, 2018, 04:49:43 AM »

That is perfect.  did not know that was available.  Thanks