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Offline Bokines

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Flame effect on candles
« on: December 12, 2014, 04:22:02 AM »
Hi,

I've just added 4 six foot candles to my display.  Each candle has 16 nodes in the body and 4 nodes in the wick.  A string length of 20 nodes is used for each candle.

In nutcracker I have set up my models as 4 candle bodies and 4 wicks.  This should allow me to run a continue flame effect on the wicks and vary the effects on the bodies.

Below is my definition.

CandleBody1    16 nodes   Channels    1   to   48
Wick1              4 nodes     Channels   49   to   60
CandleBody2    16 nodes   Channels   61   to   108
Wick2              4 nodes     Channels   109   to   120
CandleBody3    16 nodes   Channels   121   to   168
Wick3              4 nodes     Channels   169   to   180
CandleBody4    16 nodes   Channels   181   to   228
Wick4              4 nodes     Channels   229   to   240

The effect I am running on the wicks is flame effect with yellow white and red.  The first candle wick works perfectly and only flickers using red, yellow and white.  However all the other wicks are showing a pink and purple effect.  I can not understand why when I have applied the same effect across all the wicks.

Any suggestions?

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Re: Flame effect on candles
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2014, 08:12:42 AM »
Make sure morph is not turned on and effect 2 is off.
Jim Nealand
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Re: Flame effect on candles
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2014, 05:46:31 PM »
Thank you for the suggestions.  I have tried both but nothing changes.  I have also noticed that the first candle body is doing the correct effect of green and red bars and the correct flame effect on the wick, but the other 3 candles are doing something different, however under Nutcracker I applied this effect to all candles.
I am stumped as to why this is happening.  My cable lengths to each candle are the same (under 3 metres) so power drop shouldn't be an issue.  I am using SanDevice E682 pixel controller with a 30amp power supply and only using a total of 8 outputs of the controller.

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Re: Flame effect on candles
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2014, 09:06:49 PM »
Have you checked that the RGB color order in the models are correct for all of your wicks?  If those are good, have you tried using test mode to turn on individual channels in your wicks to confirm that the start channels are matching up properly?