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Enhancement Requests / Re: Candle affect for AC dimmers

« on: January 02, 2018, 08:13:19 PM »

LOL, thanks Gilrock, now I don't feel quite as stupid.  That option does not exist for me.  I am using a circle as the model and setting it to a single node.  The list for string type ends at single color so I never saw Single Color Intensity.  I guess I need to download and install the most current version.  I am using the 64 bit version.  What version do you recommend I download to begin actually learning how to use it?

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Candle affect for AC dimmers

« on: January 02, 2018, 01:59:09 PM »

This is the part that I believe throws newbies like me.  You say I could use "Single Color Intensity" but I have NO IDEA what that even means.  I set the color of the candle to Red which was probably incorrect but how and what do you set to Single Color Intensity?  I realize that I have a lot of learning to do to become proficient with this software and it will take a while but AFAIK, there are no instructions for this Effect.  Now that the season is over, I will make time to work with the software to get a better understanding of what it is doing.  As for uncommon, what exactly is uncommon about making a single bulb flicker like a candle?

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Candle affect for AC dimmers

« on: January 02, 2018, 09:02:51 AM »

Try an "ON" effect.  For the color, right click on the color to select the color curve.  Put two of the little sliders on the color curve, and drag them to the two different sides (left and right).  Make one of them Black, and the other white.  Set the blend mode to Random.  The colors then look like a bar code, with lots and on and off.  They change so quickly that they will look like a flickering flame.  I used that in pumpkins for halloween and people though it was a real candle in there.

While I appreciate the help, of you only had what amounts to a few hours of experience with this software, would you have any idea of how to do what you are telling me to do, because I don't.  Sure, I know what the "ON" effect is and I believe that I have seen the color curve but I have no idea how it works.  How would a beginner with the software ever figure that out without being told.  The point is that there is supposed to be an effect that should make doing this easy but it doesn't seem to work, at least not for a single channel prop. 

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Enhancement Requests / Re: DMX RGBW Flood Fixtures

« on: January 02, 2018, 05:56:37 AM »

You could run a WRGB device fairly easy using the DMXModel because it lets you define where the red, green, and blue channels fall and then you could just use channel 1 for white and type in 2, 3, and 4 for the RGB channels.  It would allow you to drop On and Colorwash effects to activate the RGB channel or you can use the DMX effect to dial in any channel.  Name the channels in the model definition and the DMX effect will show the names on the sliders.

While I could jump thru a bunch of hoops as you suggest, is it really that hard to add the new color order for a 4 channel pixel? 

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Candle affect for AC dimmers

« on: January 01, 2018, 09:23:32 AM »

That is the issue, they are not LED.  They are standard C7 120V candles.  Actually, the ones being used outside are just a length of PVC tubing with a C7 socket glued to the end and a power cord attached.  They were being controlled by a DLA LE.  IIRC, they were set up as white lights as they were just clear C7 candle bulbs.  Is this effect color specific? 

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Enhancement Requests / Candle affect for AC dimmers

« on: December 31, 2017, 08:30:28 PM »

Would it be possible to create a candle effect for a single channel AC dimmer type candles.  I did see the current candle effect but it didn't seem to do much with my 120V AC candles being controlled by an LE.  It could be that I just don't have a clue as to what I'm doing as there were no instructions for this effect in my version of xLights and none of the changes I made to the effect properties seemed to have any affect or change in behavior. 

I was thinking of something like Maximum and Minimum intensity and rate of flicker to be able to put the candle in different situations like indoors or outside and have the flame react correctly.  If this can already be done with the existing effect, please point me in the direction of whatever instructions are available to properly set the properties to get it to do these things. 

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Enhancement Requests / Re: DMX RGBW Flood Fixtures

« on: December 31, 2017, 08:16:01 PM »

You'll probably find you don't like using a 4 channel string type.  Problem is when you drop an effect on the grid we have to make assumptions on whether you want RGB or W.  Currently you cannot activate the W channel at the same time as the RGB channels.  The way it works is you either get RGB or if the color you pick is greyscale meaning R=G=B then we will only light the W channel.

That is not much of an issue with me as that is how the Aether works anyway.  If you give the white channel any value other than zero, only the white channel is used and the other three are ignored.  There are times that I want to get the Aethers to be the same color as other nodes and it is difficult when there is no way to set the color order correctly.  It doesn't look like a huge deal to add the new color order and if you are going to have 4 color flood settings, it would be great if they included one that would work with the Aether as there are a lot of them out there.

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Enhancement Requests / Re: DMX RGBW Flood Fixtures

« on: December 30, 2017, 05:13:23 PM »

Would it be possible to add an WRGB option to the 4 channel type.  The DLA RGB floods start with white and it would be nice to more easily integrate them into the display with the correct color order.

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Enhancement Request Model numbers

« on: October 27, 2017, 06:44:55 PM »

This would make converting from fixed channels to floating much easier.