Across-view all lights effect

[olorin92]

Hi all, for my show this year I’m incorporating our garage, and as a result have setup a new view which contains the models for the garage and an image of the garage. My default remains the front view of our house (yell out if there’s a better way of doing two separate areas in the layout tab!).

I’m wondering if there’s a way to do an “all lights” effect across two different views - for instance, having the butterfly effect move through all models on the garage over to the front of the house, without appearing disjointed. Another example could be a simple colour “wave” starting at the garage then ending at the house.

Is this sort of thing possible across views? Or are they limited to just the models in a single view?

[Gilrock]

Not really an easy way to do it.  You would need the new 3D version of xLights we are testing because with that its all one big area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBt4ErTvvDo

[olorin92]

Hey Gil,

That looks interesting (and promising!). How did you capture the 3D model of your house and it's surrounds?

I'd be happy to pull down the latest code from Git and test it out myself if generating a similar image doesn't require special equipment!

[Gilrock]

There is already a beta version of that being posted on Facebook.  I don't know any links cause I don't do the posting.  That xLights version has the ability to import a .OBJ file so any modelling program that can export to that format can be used.  Blender will do that and it's free.  SketchUp will do it if you use the paid version.  I used SketchUp to model my house and paid $129 for a one year subscription.  I didn't model any "surrounds" you are probably just seeing the google maps overhead image I placed on the ground.