Crash upon hitting PLAY

[jamills6377]

I added in another Face effect on a different layer in a different sequence - my Grinch song. He doesn't show up either when I play it. The new face settings are the same as the existing one. and it, as you might expect, does not show either.

This is sort of a new problem with the faces for me, too. They were showing back when it made the sequence crash as long as I had lights not controlled the sequence played and the face showed on the matrix in the preview. And, yes, I turned of Control Lights and tried it again - no ace.

I also went to that older on my PC to verify that those images really do still exist there in case somehow they got deleted during all of my installing and installing of things. They are all there.

[keithsw1111]

Ok try this.

Ensure the reset settings on colour buffer and layer panels are all checked.

Drop a butterfly

Now immediately drop a face effect.

Set the settings for the face effect. Does that work.

I am concerned you have a setting on one of the other panels screwing it up.


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[jamills6377]

Well there you go!!!
I made a new sequence - animation - dropped in a butterly then dropped a face on to replace the butterfly and the ace appeared and played after a render.

in my non-working sequence those there check boxes were, in fact, already checked. And they were checked in my new sequence.

So - I guess I need to ask, what might have changed that would affect this in the past couple of releases? I have not made any changes to these sequences in a while since I've been working with Gil to see i I can even drive my show with xLights - so I didn't put any more sort into the sequences I've already worked on -- so definitely didn't suddenly turn on or o something that would affect this...and certainly not is ALL of my sequences. If it was one sequence I could think I might have changed something without recognizing it....but since it's all of my sequences it must be some combination of my configuration and the newer versions of the software that have conspired to make my faces go wonky.

[keithsw1111]

To work that out bring up an effect that doesn’t work and one that does and panel by panel compare the settings. Alternatively.

Copy a fave effect that doesn’t work and paste it into notepad. Clearly mark that as not working

Do the same on one that does work and clearly mark that one.

Then post it all here and we will tell you why one works and one doesn’t.


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[jamills6377]

Will do - but note the only one that isn't working is the aces effect - everything else works as expected.

[jamills6377]

OK - I must be losing my mind! I did nothing - changed nothing --- all I have done is that bit you suggested to drop in a butterfly then switch it to a face......all my faces have begun working now! This makes no sense whatsoever!!!!!!!
I didn't re-render the sequence.
Ah...but....after Gil suggested I try the USBlyzer I had to restart the computer to finish that install --- and did not run anything with a face after that restart. So perhaps something was locked up in memory somewhere from one of the earlier crashes we were working on and that restart cleared it.
I don't know - but I'm completely surprised now!!!!!!!

And, Gil, my Monster Mash sequence played through to completion and didn't crash and the face sang along just fine! Now, granted it is still ever so slightly jerky - but tolerable. This is running from the exe you sent me this morning not from the one you had me modify on my own machine....so maybe commenting out those two lines like you had me do, might get rid of the rest of that slight flicker.

I notice the flicker especially in the marquee effect because it doesn't smoothly move around the edge - but hops skips and jumps around the edge. On the face, because most of it doesn't change, I don't see it as much - though he has a slight flicker.

[Gilrock]

Ok maybe I'll see about having an option for whether to try to only send channel data that changes.  I can also see if there is anything I can do with the Enhanced Protocol.  The exe I gave you this morning is basically just a Codeblocks release build of everything up to my last checkin yesterday.  Now that you have GitHub working you could actually pull code and rebuild if you wanted to do any experiments.

[jamills6377]

But in pulling and modifying I'd still be running in Debug mode, right? And that would still be dead slow and laggy?

[Gilrock]

Yeah unless we can figure out why VS release won't build.  I tried last night and got an "out of space" error for some .ipmd file it was trying to create even though I had like 35 gig available.

[jamills6377]

I've not tried to build an actual release from it - just let it build the pieces and parts I've changed as needed to run in debug.

[jamills6377]

My Image Faces are not working again. I restarted the computer, still no.
I found a couple that worked, but discovered that after a rrender they no longer appear in the preview (or on the matrix). You or Keith suggested copying the effect to Notepad showing a working one and a not working one...attached is that notepad file showing two faces before the render and after/working/not working. I don't see anything different between the two - but perhaps you will.

[Gilrock]

Have you checked your master view render order to make sure you don't have effects on model groups that contain the matrix that render after the matrix?  That issue is most likely something in your sequence or model order and not a bug.

[jamills6377]

I will look but the weird thing is they both appeared in the preview window (and actually played) but were off/out of alignment because I had modified my Layout - so I rendered them and that's when they disappeared.And, along with the ace - the whole sequence disappears from the preview - no effects show at all. I'm really confused by this as it only started very recently.

[Gilrock]

You've used the word "ace" many times in this thread.  I assume you are trying to type "face".  I was starting to thing your key was broken but it seems to work in all the other words. 

[jamills6377]

I notice that it doesn't type the "F" about half the time, too - not sure why - maybe it's just my finger!!!! LOL
I sometimes try to remember to go back and proofread the messages - but, as you see, don't always!