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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Text Wrap like the picture effect.

« on: January 12, 2021, 11:06:12 AM »

Thanks,  I've used that approach for rectangular matrix's before.  The timing is not quite as critical 99% right is fine as the edges don't meet up.  On a spinner I can't seem to get the timing 100% right. 

I'm sure as I do your method more I'll find it easier.  And then or course I decide I want a different color and have to edit each text effect. But that's a personal problem.

Maybe you could put the request in the backlog and get to it someday.  It must be a bit of an edge case right now or more people would be requesting it.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Text Wrap like the picture effect.

« on: January 12, 2021, 08:02:08 AM »

Hi folks. No rush, as I have a work around but looking for an easier solution.

Been trying to figure this out for a while. Is it possible to wrap the text effect? My use case is on a spinner Where "Ho Ho Ho" spins. Using the text effect it appears and then disappears and then reappears.
I can fake it by creating a picture with the required text and then using the Wrap X checkbox in the Start Position tab but that's inelegant, and a process compared to just typing the text into Xlights.

Am I missing a trick? 

Is this a possible enhancement?  Sitting in the peanut gallery, and fully acknowledging that I have no idea how the code works is this simple given that the "art" already exists for pictures and other effect?  I hate to use the word just (as i know it's a swear word to programmers and engineers - or at best another word for "magically").


Thanks,

Michael

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Stuck on a few things. Thanks for the help.

« on: January 07, 2021, 07:24:31 PM »

Thanks Gil.  I'll pay some more on the matrix.  Agree that no need to rewire if i leave it as a long flat matrix.I was thinking if i broke it into new physical matrix's, but thinking again, i can create some sub models.  I'll join a zoom call if i need more on this one.

Any thoughts on text scrolling and having the text "chase it's tail" on a spinner? 

I've had partial success on the X-Schedule.  I can now get two songs to play at the same  time, but cant get a delay on the second one.  I 'll play some more and join a zoom call once I hit the wall. These forums are great for simple things but not great for discussion/complex problem solving.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Stuck on a few things. Thanks for the help.

« on: January 06, 2021, 09:26:17 AM »

Thanks. 

Matrix: Will give it a go.  I'm trying to play with the 3D rendering options.  Because one wall is at exactly 90 degrees from the 2D viewing angle, when using a (spiral) all the lights on the side come on at once which looks odd unless you stand in just the right spot. I'll try separating and regrouping.  Question.  can i still have it wired as a long 250 node 12 down horizontal matrix? Or would i have to rewire the prop. (Would prefer not to as that's a lot of pixels to pull out and put back in.)

Text:  thanks,  i'm sure i'm just missing something.  My test case was a 20 ring 50 node spinner with "Ho Ho Ho" that I'd like to just spin continuously rather that appearing, disparaging and then reappearing.  I'm sure i'm just missing something.

X-Schedule.  Thanks.  I'll play some more and try and refine the situation.

Music.  Thanks, that's what i do.  Just making sure i had not missed a trick.

And thanks for the rapid response.  With the lockdown here in LA what used to by a 90 minute commute is a great time to play x-lights instead :-)

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Stuck on a few things. Thanks for the help.

« on: January 06, 2021, 07:50:12 AM »

Hey folks, I can?t believe any of the below are anything other than user error/ lack of knowledge, but I?m stuck. Not a total noob, but not world champ either. Spent some time playing and researching all the below. Trying to ?proof on concept? some things. Any, and all, help/thoughts much appreciated.

Matrix modeling questions:
1)   Trying to build a horizontal matrix that goes round a corner in X-lights (think bay window), and have it show correctly in 3D. Tried using Polyline with a drop but only allows for a vertical matrix. Could rework the node/string but how to load into X-Lights? And no access to wiring diagram for a polyline with drop in x-lights.
2)   Alternatively, how do you create a ?supermodel??  The opposite of a sub model. So two or more matrix get treated as a single long matrix.  E.g. draw 10 polylines and then merge into 1 model to solve for the above. Do you create a group for this? And then how do you create sub models for the group (for the left front and right of the bay window in this example?).

Text on a large Spinner
I?d like to have text on a spinner. That works but it always starts from 180 degrees disappear after one rotation to then start again.  Any way to have the text continuously spin or ?chase its tail?.  Looks like it does the same (disappears) on a 360 mega tree model.

X-Schedule
Trying to start a second fseq while the first is still running. So I can essentially blend two tracks together for ease of show creation/sequencing.  For an MC between songs.  I want the MC doing something on a matrix for the last 5 or 10 seconds of a song, then the MC bit, then the next song.  Without having to do 1 massive FSEQ.
Trying to ?step? but when I up the priority (from 1 to 7) on the shorted fseq the entire step gets shortened. It also reorders the tracks in the step. In the video I tried to follow (XLights 4 Webinar series: xSchedule (Part 2) ? March 2017) @10:30 it did not seem to be an issue for Keith, so I?m just missing something.
Note: I also tried a negative"delay" but hat seemed to stop the second fseq playing at all.  I assume only 1 can run at a time.

Music
No mechanism to trim music to length in X-lights. Correct?  Has to be done in audacity (say) and then loaded into x-lights at the preferred length.

May all your bulbs be bright.
Michael (UK ex Pat living the all-American dream in Los Angeles)