No Clour on sequencer screen

[Gordon Weaerne]

Hi Guys

First post to forum I have been doing lights for years now this year will be the biggest I have 8 E 682 controllers and 5 DMX 24 channel RGB (Nightmare) I have moved from LOR to xlights the problem I am
having is that when I program a color in solid on it shows up white on the sequence screen although the color does work on the model preview any throughts I am running xlights 4.2.1

[Gilrock]

The color you see on the effect on the grid is whatever color you chose in the color palette.  Our effects don't have any idea what type of string you are placing them on so the color of the effect doesn't try to change to match your string definition.  What happens is when rendering it will grab the color component that matches the string definition.  So if you lay down a white effect it will trigger any color.  If you define a red string and lay down a green effect it won't trigger it.  Its designed so that you can drop full RGB effects on the entire display and the elements will react when their particular color is activated in an effect.  So if you drop a Pink effect on the entire display only strings defined with Red, Blue, or RGB will react...Green strings wouldn't light up.

[Gordon Weaerne]

Thanks Gilrock

the issue is when I select a color ie red or green from the palette and drop it in the grid it shows white in the grid but displays the selected color on the model, my grid is only showing white irrespective of the palette selection so visually you battle to see what colors you have programmed

[Gilrock]

I try to listen to the exact words people use to figure out what they are doing.  You're saying something about selecting a color and dropping it on the grid but colors can't be dropped on the grid so that leaves me guessing as to what you're really doing.  You only drop effects on the grid.  If you want a solid color effect you are probably using the On effect.  You drop the effect and then AFTER you place the effect you click the color palette boxes to change the color.  The color you get when you drop the effect will always be whatever color you had selected the last time you dropped that effect.

[Gordon Weaerne]

Hi Gilrock

you are correct if I put the on effect in the grid and select a color from palette the grid remains white I have attached a screen shot

[Gilrock]

All you're showing me in that screenshot is the lines of the effect.  The actually color is in the small box in the middle of the effect on the grid.  Under settings did you turn off the Effect Backgrounds?

[flyinverted]

Zoom in and you'll see what you're looking for.

[Gordon Weaerne]

Hi Gilrock

Thanks for the help it was background effects switch off
thanks for assisting