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Offline Gilrock

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Re: can we increase the default size limitation on the xml back up??
« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2015, 06:16:11 PM »
What work can you do in SuperStar that xLights can't do?

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Re: can we increase the default size limitation on the xml back up??
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2015, 06:32:15 PM »
Its not what I can do its what others have done.
I will send you a screen shot video over the next day or two as I go thru these.

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Re: can we increase the default size limitation on the xml back up??
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2015, 07:09:59 PM »
I'm really excited about seeing what people end up doing with the new version of xlights. With the strands and many layers of effects and p10 panels I'm hoping that people can create some awesome shows this year.

This sequence I ended up taking a lms file I found and working it through in xlights. Needs some fine tuning still but coming along.

https://vimeo.com/146590492


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Re: can we increase the default size limitation on the xml back up??
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2015, 09:25:11 PM »
Its not what I can do its what others have done.
I will send you a screen shot video over the next day or two as I go thru these.

me

You said "some of his work you just can't do in xLights right now" so I wanted to hear what that is because there are a lot of improvements to his effects that I did in xLights that you can't do in SuperStar...yet.

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Re: can we increase the default size limitation on the xml back up??
« Reply #19 on: November 23, 2015, 05:48:00 AM »
The big one is when he has a bird or dove or parrot flying thru.

And Yes you are doing some effects that for now he is not.

Thats why I am here and not there

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Re: can we increase the default size limitation on the xml back up??
« Reply #20 on: November 23, 2015, 06:08:21 AM »
You do scenes in xLights.   It's called the Pictures effect and you can even draw the pictures in xLights using the Effect Assist panel.  Its not where I want it to go feature wise yet but we've had some users create some pretty impressive sequences directly in xLights.  The only things I know of that I like better in SuperStar is he has the auto-sequencing options, you can do individually colored letters in his text effect, and I like the round head on his Spiral effect.  My equivalent is the Galaxy effect since we already had a spiral and I'm calculating everything mathematically and I never got the head looking like I wanted so I tabled it for now.  I believe I can utilize OpenGL to draw the effect for me in back buffers but that's an experiment for next year.

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Re: can we increase the default size limitation on the xml back up??
« Reply #21 on: November 23, 2015, 10:21:00 AM »
Yea his spirals have always been neat.   I will have to give the picture effect a try.  Using someone neat sequence is a time saver I think. My main issue right now is importing properly so I can reduce the file size as much as possible.   You did a tutorial on layer import didn't you.



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