Color wash effect on megatree leaves 2 strings dark

[msiebri]

I noticed last night that a color wash effect on my megratree doesn't display on all the strings.  Strings 1 & 48 are dark.  Is there something I can change in the setup to fix this?

Attached are my effect settings and my megatree model.

[jnealand]

I think you need to look at your hardware config and double check your channel configs.  Every time I have had something similar that is where the problem was.  The last week after disconnecting all wires from an F16v2 and then reconnecting them I put one in the wrong port.  Easy problem to create.

[Gilrock]

So what does an On effect do?

[keithsw1111]

Or check your buffer settings to ensure the yellow dotted line box fully outlines the black box or just double click on it.

[msiebri]

jnealand - Every other effect in all my sequences looks perfect, so I don't think it is a controller or channel config problem.  I did have 2 ports swapped earlier in the season, it was very easy to see the problems that caused.

Gil - I will check an On effect when I get home this afternoon and let you know.

Keith - Can you explain how to check the yellow dotted line box? I've never messed with that before.  I will check it out as soon as I get home.

[keithsw1111]

Inspect it. It is on the screen. Or just double click it which will reset it to 100%

[msiebri]

Gil - An On effect works fine, lights all 48 strings.

Keith - The buffer settings appear to be set to 100%, attached is a screenshot.

[Phrog30]

This is not a fix, but make the buffer bigger by dragging the yellow dotted line outside of the black box. This should work. Screenshots are great, but including your actual files are better. Then we can look for ourselves.

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[Gilrock]

Ok if On works then we know its not hardware.  I'd post the xlights_rgbeffects.xml and a sample sequence with a colorwash that doesn't work.

[msiebri]

Ok, here are the files.  Thanks for taking a look at it.  I use color wash 2 times on the megatree during this sequence, it behaves the same both times.  I can take a video of the sequence tonight if that will help any.

[Phrog30]

Maybe it's the horizontal fade.

[Gilrock]

Yes the horizontal fade tells it to fade to black at the edges.  If you posted the effect settings instead of the color settings in the first post this would have been solved much faster.

[msiebri]

That was it.  I didn't notice that the other strings close to 1 & 48 were also dimmer until I turned that off.  I must have copied that effect from somebodies shared sequence, I'm sure I've never played with those fade settings before.  Thanks for the help!