Questions on xLights and Mini Trees

[JMHaro]

I have 6 mini trees that I was planning on wrapping them each with 100 pixel nodes (smart).  (I'm flexible on this if anyone thinks this is too many or not enough).  The trees are the standard upside down tomato cages with a total height of 32" and a 12" diameter base.

I apologize if this was already posted but I've been searching and haven't found my answers yet.  I was wondering if there might be any preferred way to wrap the trees with the pixel nodes that might produce the best lighting effects with xLights other than controlling the entire tree as a single light source.

Also, for xLights itself, what is the best way to create a xLights prop for mini trees.  I currently have the following for each tree but not sure if I really like it or how it would relate to the actual lights on the trees:

Type:	Round
Degrees:	360
Rotation:	3
Spiral Wraps:	0
Bottom/Top Ratio:	6
Perspective:	2
# Strings:	2
Lights/String:	50
Strands/String:	10
Starting Location:	Bottom Left

I know LOR's SuperStar had a capability to actually create a tree wrapping guide so that it could actually sequence different parts of the tree (like side to side, top to bottom, or even rotating bars) so I wasn't sure if there was a way to properly create a prop and wrap the trees that could actually give some kind of control over the lights something like that.

I appreciate any help or advice on this before I start in wrapping the trees and maybe an improvement on my xLights prop for them.

[sean]

Wrap them anyway you want and then use Keith Westleys feature to automatically make a model for you.

"Tools, Custom Model""

wath Keith's video to see how it works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9JbDvwzoiQ&index=13&list=PLRCKIqv5mRm5IM6vLzzCkoPrBVg9aqfTz

[bwinter]

I have some trees I'm working on that are very similar.

I've chosen to only do 180, thinking "who's going to see the back-side" (yet, I'm not sure that's the correct/best approach).

As far as generating the effects you mention, I've been able to do all those quite easily on these models.

[dkulp]

xLights pretty much requires the mini-trees to be wired "up/down".  You can zig zag it up and down (up one strand, down the next, then up again, etc...).  However, I don't believe the tree model will work if you wire them is a horizontal manner.   (row1, row2, etc...)

[JMHaro]

Thanks all for the quick responses.  Thanks Sean for the video information.  I had used the regular custom model creation but didn't know about the video capability.  I will give that method a shot to see how it works for me, sounds pretty good.

[Phrog30]

If you use the video mapper remember to mark each tree specifically as well as what is the front.

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