Matrix not displaying effects, just shows white pixels

[blakec]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to nutcracker and have been able to figure out most issues, but I have ran into one that I have not been able to figure out. Any help would be appreciated.

I have created a 75x24 matrix, but when I go to the sequencer and on my line element "Matrix" I drag a spiral effect and stretch it out to start 1 second to 10 seconds in the song. I click on the model preview to see what it will do between 1 second and 10 seconds. When it hits 1 second to 10 seconds it just shows my matrix with all white pixels, after 10 seconds the matrix turns off to black.

So why is the matrix showing white pixels instead of the spiral effect?

Thanks

[Gilrock]

It sounds like you are hitting Play since you say "when it hits 1 second..."?  That could mean you have an effect elsewhere like a model group that is overwriting that model.  So what happens in the Model Preview when you just click on the effect in the grid?  That will preview that effect on that model.

[neil]

what type of string did you use in your model settings, hopefully RGB Nodes


On the color pallet which colors do you have checked?

[SventeHof]

Hi there,

i have the same problem.

I create a custom model (snowflake) with 190 Pixels (rgb), then i create a new sequence (animation) and timings ("T").
if i hit a effect, nothing happend, if i move the effect to the timeline, the the pixels are shown "white" in the preview!

I use Nutcracker 4.3.00 (MAC Version)

Sven
from Germany

[Gilrock]

Show a screenshot with the Effect Settings displayed.

[SventeHof]

Screenshot is attached

[Gilrock]

Is the Snowflake model defined as RGB nodes?  Can you try switching the color dropdown from Rainbow to Palette and then try using different colors in your palette?  Do some experimenting.

[Gilrock]

I'm not at home to test it myself.  I also notice your first color selected in your palette happens to be White so if I had a model showing up White I think I would try changing that first color and see if it makes a difference.

[SventeHof]

Hi, i do what you say and ... nothing happens. the preview model shows always withe pixels!
Last week i try with an other model and i see the same problem.. don´t know why!
Its a fresh installed xlights.

[Gilrock]

Well we can continue guessing or you can attach your xlight_rgbeffects.xml, xlights_networks.xml, and the sequence xml file and hopefully someone can check it out.

[SventeHof]

could it be, that a false network setup can be the problem? i delete the seand the preview shows a little bit better!

[SventeHof]

Here are my files.. i hope someone can find my mistake.

Many Thanks!

[Gilrock]

Well this one has me stumped so far.  I can add another model of a normal 360 tree and it works just fine.  But any effects on that custom snowflake aren't working and I can't find anything set wrong.  I've never seen a custom model with that many nodes before.  I think my biggest was 100.

[Gilrock]

Try this file I attached.  Not sure how it got into a bad state but something was messed up with the dimming curve section for that model in the xlights_rgbeffects.xml file.  I just deleted the dimming curve section and it started working.

[Gilrock]

Do you know what you did with the dimming curves to get it into the state it was in?

You're file looked like this:
      <dimmingCurve>
        <red brightness="" gamma=""/>
        <green brightness="" gamma=""/>
        <blue brightness="0" gamma=""/>
      </dimmingCurve>

Whereas this is what it should look like by default:
      <dimmingCurve>
        <red brightness="0" gamma="1.0"/>
        <green brightness="0" gamma="1.0"/>
        <blue brightness="0" gamma="1.0"/>
      </dimmingCurve>