Single Strand Wrapping

[MrRocketman]

Hello all,

I just stumbled across something that I'm not sure how to accomplish.

If you take a basic circle model, and do a single strand effect on it, with the render style set to single line, how do I make the effect continue around the circle smoothly when I have it set for multiple cycles? I almost think this just needs to be another checkbox so the effect wraps back to the beginning of the strand. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Video attached for clear description.

https://vimeo.com/176240666

Thanks!


James (MrRocketman)

[Phrog30]

Never used a circle, but remember you don't have to. You can create a line model set to the same channels as the circle and you shouldn't have any problem doing what you mentioned.

James

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[MrRocketman]

Never used a circle, but remember you don't have to. You can create a line model set to the same channels as the circle and you shouldn't have any problem doing what you mentioned.

James

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Well that's the thing though, even with a single line model representing the circle, it does the same thing.

And even if you just use a single line model by itself, the effect goes to the end of the line, waits till the whole effect has gone to the end, then resets.



James (MrRocketman)

[Phrog30]

Understand, I guess I've never noticed that. Someone with more experience will hopefully chime in.

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[Phrog30]

You could always overlap effects, but that may not work well when using multiple colors.

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[MrRocketman]

Yeah, that's potentially an option. Good thought. That would be a little tricky to line up the colors though.


James (MrRocketman)

[Gilrock]

I haven't messed with it but is it doing that transition in the middle of the effect or are you just showing us what happens when the effect loops back to start.

[MrRocketman]

I've got it set for 2 cycles at the moment, so it's doing that in the middle of the effect as well as when the preview loops.


James (MrRocketman)

[pjones]

Has this been fixed or modified in recent releases? I'm using an old version of xlights right now and I'm noticing the same thing. I've accepted it for now but once I'm ready to go for the season that is one of the first visuals I figured I would be battling to find a work around so it makes a smooth looking chase.

It's too late for me to update for this season but if there's a trick that I'm missing that would shave some hours off sequencing time possibly.


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[Gilrock]

Layer the effects.  Use a picture effect because it can wrap.  Really hard to answer because you just say "an old version of xlights".  If its xLights3 I'll have a completely different answer.  But I'm really not going to try to figure out what version features were added.  I support the latest version because there is no reason to not use it.