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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Output to Lights Feature Not Working in 2020.23

« on: June 30, 2020, 03:56:37 PM »

Ah ha! I figured it out!

I had set a Global FPP Proxy IP in the 'Controllers' section of xLights. The Raspberry Pi with that IP was offline. I removed the Global Proxy and it's working again.

Is it possible that pre-2020.23 was ignoring that proxy setting or is it unexpected behavior to fail to output to lights with a proxy set where the device is offline?

I'm currently running 2020.26.1 from the Mac App Store.

Thanks!

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Output to Lights Feature Not Working in 2020.23

« on: June 06, 2020, 09:46:27 PM »

Thanks for taking a look, Dan. Strange.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Output to Lights Feature Not Working in 2020.23

« on: June 06, 2020, 03:43:22 PM »

Hello all! I was attempting to do live output to some ESPixelSticks via multicast on a sequence I've been working on. I'm running xLights on my MacBook Pro. Everything was working fine on version 2020.22. I upgraded to 2020.23 and now the ESPixelSticks do not react to the live output.

I reinstalled 2020.22 and everything is working as expected again. So, I tried reinstalling 2020.23 to see if that would help and it stopped working again. Could this be a 2020.23 bug or has something changed in 2020.23 that I'm missing?

Thanks!

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Help with creating a "swirling pixie dust" effect.

« on: May 05, 2020, 01:42:13 PM »

Yep!

I found a nice fairy dust effect that uses ripple on the Google drive. I'm having some difficulty understanding the tendril effect. I'll have to mess around with it little more.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Help with creating a "swirling pixie dust" effect.

« on: May 04, 2020, 07:24:45 PM »

Thank you! I was unaware of the share drive. I'll check it out!

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Help with creating a "swirling pixie dust" effect.

« on: May 03, 2020, 02:00:26 PM »

I haven?t played around with tendril much. I will do some research on it and see what I can make. Thanks for some direction.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Help with creating a "swirling pixie dust" effect.

« on: May 02, 2020, 09:44:59 PM »

Hello all! I've been sequencing my first whole house show and I'm running into an issue with an effect I'm working on. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

I want to create a "swirling pixie dust" effect. So far I have used a morph effect where I make it a True Unmask in Layer Blending. Below that layer I'm using a twinkle effect, so that the morph reveals the twinkle layer below as it moves by. I used the Effect Assist to create a more distinct pathway for the morph movement.

This effect currently overrides anything else on the whole house model. I was hoping to have this display on top of anything running on the whole house model (the purple-ish circles are flood lights).

Also, is there a way to make this effect in a better manner than this? Looking for any tips everyone may have. I have included a picture of the effect setup and a video for reference.

I hope everyone is staying healthy!

Video of the effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC0pHsg4J98