xx 2016.21 release. new MUSIC effect, many enhancements

[bravado67]

As long as xlights can reach them it does not care. When xlights generates the fseq file all pictures are stored inside it. As is any video you are showing on matrixes or trees but not stuff you are projecting.

Thanks Keith. At the training in Vegas I used my MacBook Pro and had to copy xml files back to my pc at home. Since the directories are different I had to link the images. Not a big deal as I am learning. Can't wait to check our the new effect tomorrow.

Ron

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[Phrog30]

hello James,

Perhaps you can examine the xml prior , to see what the path to the image is and post that path , the show directory path and what it is changed to after you update and save - so that Keith can check..

The path isn't changing. I'm a little surprised nobody else is seeing this. I can select an effect. Nothing happens on the model or house preview. All I have to do is change something, movement, speed, scale, position, etc., then it will immediately start working. The path is the same in the beginning as it is afterwards. I have several picture effects that use the same picture. If it was something in the path then updating one would fix all, however, that's not the case, I have to do each one.

James

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[keithsw1111]

What happens if you render all instead of moving things?

[Phrog30]

Rendering has no effect. One thing, my files are in my documents and it's redirected to another drive. So, instead of being c:\my documents, it's d drive. Would this mess things up? Hasn't been a problem until now.

James

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[keithsw1111]

There is no reason why that should be a problem.

[Phrog30]

I'm at a loss. Nothing has changed. I can revert back to 2016.20 and everything is fine. But picture effects don't work in 2016.21. I've rendered, deleted fseq and rendered. Uninstalled and reinstalled several times. Nothing. Everything else seems to work fine.

James

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[keithsw1111]

Can we do a team viewer to try and work it out. Pm me.

[Gilrock]

I've got a sequence doing the same thing.  The Picture effect isn't showing up until I hit the Update button on the effect and even hitting Render All isn't fixing it.

[Phrog30]

I've got a sequence doing the same thing.  The Picture effect isn't showing up until I hit the Update button on the effect and even hitting Render All isn't fixing it.

I hate to say it, but good. I don't like be the odd man.  I was starting to wonder.

I'm at the lake house and don't have reliable Internet, so when I get home Keith wanted to remote in, unless someone beats me to it.

James

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[Gilrock]

Yeah I'm trying to dig into it right now.  Definitely a difference between version 20 and 21 and I'm looking at a Beyond Compare Diff of the source code and so far nothing is sticking out to me.  In version 20 I open the sequence click the effect and I see the picture.  In 21 I open the sequence click the effect and nothing then hit Update and I see the picture.  That would mean 20 is sending a render event when I click and 21 is not.  Usually we don't fire render events just because you click the effect.  Something is supposed to be changed in the settings to cause us to fire the render event.

[Gilrock]

Ok I found it.  You can slap Keith for breaking it.

Funny thing is I looked right at that code change 3 times and didn't see the problem till I got in there with the debugger and noticed it was getting a blank string when trying to grab the filename from the settings lookup map.  It was as simple as Keith forgot the "E_" in front of the filename symbol "E_FILEPICKER_Pictures_Filename" so it was returning a blank into the settings object.

[Phrog30]

Thanks Gil. It happens to everyone. I appreciate your help.

James

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[Gilrock]

Yep it happens to all us software guys.

[Phrog30]

I'm curious now, why wasn't everyone seeing this issue?

James

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[Gilrock]

If the effect was already rendered to the fseq file you would see it in playback.  But if you tried to click on the effect or render after opening it should have blanked out that data.  People that said it worked probably never clicked on the effect.