Hi Gil, yes I did type it in. My bad for not saying so. When you are working on something in the late hours, you can miss info.
If the mega is not affecting anything, then why are parts of my singing faces lighting up, when the mega tree has an effect as well. Seems to be any ON type effect or color wash. If it's a picture or complex type effect, morph,spiral,fan etc, I don't have the anomaly. The singing faces work just fine.
The faces are custom 8 channel models. I thought I needed to change the models to reflect the channels instead of just using the 1-8 channels on each custom model. IE the numbering for the mouths on the models, to reflect my channels.
However, my first singing face does use 1-8 for it's channels, it still has the lighting up face when the mega tree lights an ON effect as described above. Also, the faces operate normally on other sequences.
The other anomaly that pops up using Randy's sequences, for some reason it will add a little section to my singing faces as a data layer!
I have to go in select all of them create random effects, then I can delete them. were are they coming from?
I don't have a data layer for Randys seq. I'm following the same step by step for Star Wars you gave me. Matching my models to his models to use what is needed.
Now when I go and edit the Foster Carol of the Bells I was working on earlier, now it is doing the same damn thing! It is adding the data layer to the faces. I can delete them, but they return as soon as I render/save again!
When the mega is kicking ON, I get the spurious lighting of the faces, didn't have that before. Also, sure enough, when I check my singing faces, they have that 1 little area of uneditable data layer, I have to delete again.
But, If I resave the xml again, they are back! I don't know what happened here. I also noticed when checking the Carol of the bells xml; I did a search for data layer, it shows 2 of the same lines on the data layer.
Is that supposed to happen that way. IE it shows the base nutcracker layer on say line 938, well right below that is also a line 938 with the same data. I delete the extra line, but notepad ++ won't let me save the updated xml, so I guess it's supposed to be that way?
If I can't figure this out quickly, I'm pretty much done. WTH is happening to my setup! Yes, I have gone back and used a backup of my rgbeffects.xml file, several times.
It's the Holidays, I don't expect any responses from anyone at this point. Maybe next year you can possibly zero in on why this happened.
I'll try one more sequence, if it happens as before, then I know something got corrupted somewhere.
I'll reset my Megatree as it was. I tried using the start channel of 5101, but it doesn't layout strand numbering properly, plus I have to skip some channels due to my tree and controller setup.
If anyone might have some time to talk, cell:817-456-8485
I'm totally stumped at this time.
Best,
David
