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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Synchronize the individual nodes

« on: February 02, 2018, 01:50:41 PM »

Thanks Gilrock, that did exactly what I was looking for. I will continue to play with the effects, watch tutorial videos and post questions on things I can't figure out. Hopefully by Christmas I'll have everything in order.

Thanks to All.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Synchronize the individual nodes

« on: February 02, 2018, 12:35:45 AM »

Keep in mind I really don't know what I'm doing but I tried both single strand and marquee. Played around with the effect settings and couldn't get the results I was looking for. Any other thoughts?

Thanks

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Synchronize the individual nodes

« on: February 01, 2018, 01:04:34 AM »

Newbie here, I need to figure out how to synchronize the individual nodes. What I’m trying to do is on a single strand of fifty nodes I want to be able to have three colors on at once. In other words, the first node white the second node green the third node red and so on for the string of fifty. In some of my sequences that I imported from LOR both the white and red are on at the same time. I've watched several video's but can't seem to find one that address this issue. Any ideas?

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Setup, Show Directory and Layout

« on: January 26, 2018, 11:14:14 PM »

Got it. Thanks Jim

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Setup, Show Directory and Layout

« on: January 26, 2018, 03:27:19 PM »

When I set up Xlights for the first time I saved the setup and Show Directory in a default location C:\Users\Kurtis\Documents on my desk top computer. I now want to move everything to my show computer. I copied and saved all the sequences to a thumb drive and loaded them on my laptop show computer. I didn't see where I could "save as" the setup to the thumb drive. I can open the sequences on the show computer and output the data to my controllers but I can't modify any of the setup criteria or layout. How do I move everything over to my show computer?

Thanks

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Nutcracker Models / Re: AC display and setting up models

« on: January 22, 2018, 07:01:23 PM »

FYI - I have all my LOR sequences converted over to Xlights and they are all working great.

Thanks to all for all your help!!

Now I need to tackle the adventure of hooking up my AC controllers and see if I can get them to dance with Xligths. Wish me luck.

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Nutcracker Models / Re: AC display and setting up models

« on: January 22, 2018, 02:02:22 PM »

Never mind on the arches, I think I got it. 

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Nutcracker Models / Re: AC display and setting up models

« on: January 22, 2018, 01:55:05 PM »

Yes, you are correct. I had no idea the models expanded in the channel mapping like they do in the sequence. I went ahead and expanded them and dragged the effects over and it worked great. Thank You

Now, what is the best way to get the arches in the sequence? I have 4 arches with 8 channels/strands on each. I used the arch model in the layout but didn't see where you could include the 8 strands/channels like the tree model.

Thanks again.

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Nutcracker Models / Re: AC display and setting up models

« on: January 22, 2018, 10:35:20 AM »

I just installed the latest Release 2018.3. Do I have to re-install the QM Vamp Plugins again?

I then created a new sequence and unfortunately the mega tree effects did not convert over. I believe I read in the release notes that this bug was addressed. I could be wrong. I attached some screenshots so you can see what I'm seeing. Can you give it another try on your end and see if it works for you?

Thanks again for all the help!!

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Nutcracker Models / Re: AC display and setting up models

« on: January 17, 2018, 09:40:03 PM »

That's fantastic!! Any Idea when the next release will be coming out? I plan on converting my roof line to RBG this year and with in 3 years have my complete display RGB.

Thanks to both you Keith for all your hard work to keep us lighting freaks happy!! I will be clicking on the donation button!

Thanks again

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Nutcracker Models / Re: AC display and setting up models

« on: January 17, 2018, 09:57:11 AM »

Will do, Thanks

Also MrChristmas, I'll try to join tonight but I haven't set up my mic on the computer yet. I hope to have that completed sometime tonight. Thanks

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Nutcracker Models / Re: AC display and setting up models

« on: January 17, 2018, 12:42:24 AM »

Please don't get me wrong, I really appreciate your help on this but after looking at the video when you scrolled down the models I paused it on the MegaTreeR and MegaTreeG model. From what I can see on the screen there are no effects for those models. Also when you played the actual video the MegaTree and SpiralTree are not showing any effects working. In the layout the MegaTree is located on the far right and the SpiralTree on the far left of the display.

The TreeLine and all other effects convert over just fine. It's just the effects for the MegaTree, SpiralTree and Arches. Keep in mind the 9 mini-trees are a custom model overlaid three times with white, green and red effects.

If you would be willing I'd like to contact you on Zoom so you could step me through it and I could show you what I'm talking about. The only problem is my dated computer is not set up with a microphone. I'm going to borrow one tomorrow and get it set up on my computer.

Let me know if we can work that out and please understand I really appreciate all the time and effort you have already spent.

Thanks
Kurt 

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Nutcracker Models / Re: AC display and setting up models

« on: January 16, 2018, 07:28:52 PM »

Here is what I think is the mapping file.

The steps you laid out to import effects is the way I've been doing it with the exception that I pull some of the available effects over to the mapping side before I hit OK. The problem is that with the mega tree effect I don't see the 8 individual strands on the mapping side. It only list one effect for each color.

I did overlay the mega tree with 8 individual models in white just to see if they would import and it worked fine.

FYI - It's only the effects that have multiple strings i.e. the mega tree, spiral tree and arches that's giving me problems.

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Nutcracker Models / Re: AC display and setting up models

« on: January 16, 2018, 12:56:07 PM »

The sequencing on the MegaTreeW effect I manually sequenced in xLights. It did not come over from the LOR conversion. 

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Nutcracker Models / Re: AC display and setting up models

« on: January 16, 2018, 12:50:02 PM »

Great!! Let me know what I'm doing wrong. Thanks again for all your help!! Feel free to PM or email me.