HELP! Please.

[oakridgelights]

I don't know what happened, but I can not make ANY changes to ANY effect on ANY prop.  As soon as I do, no matter if I change the effect or just change the color of the effect, it no longer shows in the Model Preview or House Preview.

I tried using sequences that were in progress, complete...and even tried creating brand new sequences.  Nothing.

I have NO idea what happened.  I've tried everything I can think of.  Nothing works.

Any suggestions? 

[Gilrock]

Tools -> Package Sequence and post the zip file so one of us can try it.

[oakridgelights]

Here's the file.  Thanks!

[Gilrock]

Everything is static effects but it appears to render fine.  Hit the Render All button first when you open the sequence and wait for the progress bar to finish.  Every time you click on an effect it re-renders it so since your effects span all the way across they may take time to re-render.  Faster PC helps in that area.

[oakridgelights]

After MUCH playing around, I think I figured out the issue, the only problem is, I don't know what caused it:

The "Value" slider in the Colors window was dim.  The box where the green arrow normally is was solid gray.  As soon as I clicked on the box, the arrow appeared and everything was fine for that prop.

Any idea how that happened and how I can fix it without having to go into each sequence and do that to every single effect on groups, models, strings and nodes?

[Gilrock]

Open your XML sequence file in Notepad++ and search for the following and replace with nothing:

,C_VALUECURVE_Color_ValueAdjust=Active=TRUE|Id=ID_VALUECURVE_Color_ValueAdjust|Min=0.00|Max=100.00|

[oakridgelights]

Mr. Gilrock, sir, you are my new hero.  That worked perfectly!  I can't thank you enough!

[Gilrock]

The question is did this happen automatically when a sequence went through a conversion to a new xLights release?  If so the original file would be useful for us to fix the conversion.

[oakridgelights]

This was actually saved on a USB, so I do have the original.  I backed everything up on 9/11 because the computer had to go for repair (power issue). When I got it back, I loaded all of my files back onto the computer and that's when everything started going wrong.

I've attached the file that I've been working with, but this issue happened to ALL of my sequences, not just this one.

[keithsw1111]

I have looked through these files and I dont see an issue. The value curve was there with a straight line value curve set to 0 ... this converted to a straight line value curve with value set to -100 ... exactly as it should have.