Model Preview showing garbage - trying singing faces images

[jamills706]

I am running Ver 2016.20.
I have created all the phoneme images, and have them identified in the faces tab.
I have brokendown words in a lyrics track
and have applied a faces action on the matrix layer in my song.

When I try to play it to preview my work, all I see is garbage......perhaps, after thinking about my images for a long time, it is repeating the top row of my image all the way down as it shows an all light blue matrix with the center three pixels on each row as pink.....so a vertical pink stripe. (See attachment)

Trying everything I can think of I can't get it to show up correctly. I figure it must be some stupid beginner mistake - but I could sure use some suggestions!

Thanks!

[Gilrock]

Need to see the model definition.

[jamills706]

This is my first attempt with xLights/Nutcracker so...
Not sure what you meant - is this what you want to see?

[Gilrock]

What is the string type under String Properties?  I think you want "RGB Nodes".  Did you mean to start your model on channel 2?  That doesn't seem like a typical start channel.  Usually it would be divisible by 3 if you have all RGB stuff (after subtracting 1).  Your end channel is really small like there are only 72 channels.  If you have 24x50 that should be 3600 channels.  Maybe it's a refresh issue because we do have that on the channel numbers.  I forget how you can force it to recalc.

[jamills706]

It was set to RGB so I changed it and now I get just a small segment of lines near the lower left.

I used Channel 2 because my LOR controller (16-channel) is on Unit ID 1; and my matrix starts with Unit ID 2. I guess this is the area in which I become confused. I see where you get the 3600 though --- just guess I need to know what to put as a start and can change the number of them to 3600.

[jamills706]

Meant to say 3-channel RGB not just RGB,

[Gilrock]

Your LOR controller is going to need channels 1 through 16 so the matrix should start on channel 17.  We don't use LOR unit ID's anywhere in xLights so you need to forget about them.  It's all pure channel counts now.  What hardware is actually driving the matrix?

[jamills706]

I guess you mean.....
I am using LOR CCR ribbons with their built in controllers.

[jamills706]

I changed it to start at 17 and now it still shows the same blue with pink stripe but only for 25 rows instead of all 50.

Sorry to be so dense about this!

[jamills706]

OK!
So I also went back and changed the total number of channels to 3623 and IT WORKS!
MY FACE IS SINGING!!!!!!

Thanks you oh so much for your kind assistance! I am thrilled!!!!!

[Gilrock]

Ok I'm still not sure things are defined right in the model.  You shouldn't be able to specify a total number of channels.  You specify number of strings, number of nodes, and node type and we calculate the total number of channels for you.  "3 Channel RGB" is the wrong type for CCR nodes.  You want "RGB nodes".  "3 Channel RGB" means that every string has only 3 channels but you have 150 channels per string.  You will also need to make sure you have the CCR's setup so that they don't expect the extra 7 macro channels but that in your LOR hardware setup.

[jamills706]

Right...
I changed to the RGB Nodes.
The total channel count was wrong in the setup screen and I changed it there, not in the Matrix itself.

I will have to look into that part of the LOR setup - not sure I've even noticed that part about the extra 7 macro channels.

Thanks again for all of your help!
My face looks good...but...one more question...

As my face sings I feel like there should be additional phonemes in the words...after doing the breakdown word into phonemes action is there a way I can add in extras as I see fit?

[Gilrock]

You can move them around to create a space then copy paste a new one in the slot.

[jamills706]

OK - so I have to copy it from within the song to paste it - or is there someplace else they show up where I can select one to paste?

Again, sorry to be so dense....once I get this down, I am sure it will all make much more sense to me!

[Gilrock]

Yes you are doing something non-standard so I'm just thinking of a way to hack an additional phoneme into there.  Copy it from somewhere else or you could edit your user dictionary and change the phoneme's that we auto-generate for that word.