First sequence for 2015 thanks to Xlights

[drlucas]

Well for $1.29 I'll roll the dice and see what happens.


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[doga78]

Following )

[mlevings]

I was able to find the 3:19 song at the amazon.co.uk store.  So far I've had no luck making a purchase.  It doesn't like my US credit cards.

[logandc99]

Dropbox link to animations added to my first post.
Cheers
Logan

[drlucas]

Thanks !


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[drlucas]

Thanks!! I'll play around a bit with this during the week. Maybe add to the playlist rotation on the weekend.


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[scuba]

I'm all in on this sequence!!!  WOW, excellent.  Would love to give it a try.

[logandc99]

Hopefully some can get some use out of this sequence because at the moment we are in darkness 
Been having problems with the RCD on the house tripping when turning on the outside powerpoints. Has happened a few times before but usually switching things off and then back on seems to work fine and everything works for the evening. But last night, coudn't get to turn on any more than three or 4 of the 7 outside powerpoints before the RCD would trip. And it wasn't the same powerpoint each time, it was any of the powerpoints if it was the 4th or 5th being turned on. At one stage I had the 4 outside powerpoints on and then it tripped without me doing anything and then I discovered my wife turned on the video recorder switch in the house and it tripped. I'm thinking a faulty RCD as it seems to be quite random with regards to which powerpoint gets turned on - trying to get hold of an electrician at this time of the year isn't easy so seeing the property in darkenss is a bit depressing and frustrating at present.

[mlevings]

I'm trying to make use of this awesome sequence but I've run into a problem that I can't solve.  How to you import the light saber effect?  When I import the megatree model to mine, I get everything but the light saber effect.  That effect makes the whole sequence for me.  Anybody have any suggestions?

[logandc99]

The effects were applied to the tree at the strand level. I didn't realise that effects done at the strand level wouldn't go across with the xml data file sorry.
To get the two light sabers to come down I used a curtain effect set on close and curtain edge left. For them to go back up it is curtain effect open (at tleast that's how it works on my tree model).
To get the lights to move left and right, I applied short bits of the ON effect to the other strands to make it look like they move left and right and when they contact eachother, I used a red and white or green and white On effect with shimmer ticked.
I will take a screen shot when I can and post it up.

[drlucas]

I was able to get those effects. My mega tree is 12x38 pixels and it comes in OK on my tree. HOWEVER, I have the effects also copied on a P10 panel (one other time my sup file I imported wasn't showing up right so I tried it on a matrix and it looked great on that so tried that with this sequence too) and it doesn't really work there. So if you have a mega tree model, it should come in.

[drlucas]

https://vimeo.com/147547308


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[mlevings]

drlucas, did you map all 12 strings on the megatree or did you just map the top level of the tree?  I mapped the top level and I do not get the light saber effects coming through.  I'll go back and try mapping all 12 strings individually and see what happens.

[drlucas]

I did file, open sequence and then mapped the items that way when it said delete or rename because it couldn't find a model that mapped to the original. here are my sequences. no changes at all to the original really. I'm still trying to figure out the best mapping of models.

[mlevings]

I went back and mapped the individual strings on my tree and it works now.  I'm excited to see this one.  I'm sure it will be a huge hit.