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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Progressively Dim Overall Brightness

« on: January 29, 2022, 06:00:28 PM »

Here's how I did it a few years ago.  Someone else helped me out so I'll pass it forward. 

Clone your whole house model group and in the Master View, put it after all of your other groups and models so it renders last. This will cause it to overlay all other effects. At the appropriate time, apply the "On" effect to the desired time range, set the color to black, start and end intensity to 0, and then apply a value curve ramp of 100-0 to the transparency. I faded all the way down before the end of the song so I added the "off" effect to keep everything off.

There are other ways of doing this and hopefully others will add their 2c.

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Xlights Setup / Re: Dimensions

« on: January 10, 2022, 04:40:42 PM »

Thanks for the replies. I saw Keith's enhancement in the 2022.01 release notes and have been anxious to put the enhancement to work.

I'm still in 2D and will give Ron Howard's method a try as in the video. I am resisting going to 3D as I really don't have the resources.

My fallback idea was to put measurements on PVC pipes, put them at different points in my yard to take depth into account, then take new pictures of my yard. Not exact but close enough.

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Xlights Setup / Dimensions

« on: January 08, 2022, 07:12:01 PM »

How are you sizing your props in the Layout tab to real world dimensions?

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Nutcracker Effects / Re: Fade across all models

« on: December 21, 2018, 07:57:02 PM »

Congrats you pretty much just ruined the typical use of the whole house model but as long as your happy.

Perhaps I should have been more clear. The song has a long (20 seconds) fade out. Your solution did exactly what I expected it to and didn't want...apply a fade to every effect on every model during the song's fade out. There's a couple of reasons that  solution doesn't work. First, the active models have multiple effects during the song's fade at the end. Applying a bulk edit fades each effect on each model and then the next effect starts and fades and so on. Second, the fade value will be longer than the effects' duration. I already learned (the hard way) that doesn't work but is easily found by running a check sequence.

I moved my whole house model to the bottom but didn't try configuring a whole house model at the top and bottom of the model view.

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Nutcracker Effects / Re: Fade across all models

« on: December 20, 2018, 11:41:41 AM »

Thanks Boof63! I moved my whole house model to the bottom, applied the "on" effect at the desired time range, set the color to black, start and end intensity to 0, and then applied a value curve ramp of 100-0 to the transparency. I faded all the way down before the end of the song so I added the "off" effect to keep everything off.

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Nutcracker Effects / Fade across all models

« on: December 19, 2018, 06:25:58 PM »

Is there a way to apply a fade across all models and effects at the end of a sequence? I'm cleaning up one of my sequences and it has a long fade at the end. The active models have multiple effects during the fade so it's more complicated than simply applying a bulk edit fade on the out transition of each effect.

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Xlights Setup / View question

« on: September 26, 2018, 07:11:57 PM »

I'm not understanding how views are specific to sequences. When sequencing a song, I want to create views based on voices and instruments but they seem to be common across all sequences. How do set up my show directories to use a common network but separate views?

Mike