Single Strand Effect All Going in the Same Direction

[Gary]

Yes, it looks like that workaround works. There are so many combinations to create effects! A lot of nice-looking effects I happen to stumble upon by mistake.

[Ebuechner]

I don't know if I would classify that as a workaround. Those would be the default settings for those items.
Nice job on your layout, it's very detailed.

[Gary]

I was thinking about hit more, and thought, "Wait a sec... it always looked fine on my screen, but why does it look different on my house?"

Either way, everything has been taken down for the season, so I can try to dabble with it in the off-season with a few strings, or wait until next year and all the lights are on the house again.

[Ebuechner]

I took a second look at your file and I found two things to fix.
Garland Den needs to be redrawn or moved around so the green dot is on the left. Same thing with Garland garage right.
I would start there and then double-check your starting location on all of your elements making sure they match your physical layout. I didn't catch those 2 items at first because of what I found in the effects settings.

[Gary]

I'm not really concerned about the direction of my den and right garage garland though... if anything, the backwards layout of those creates some mirror symmetry between my foyer door and den garland, and again with my left and right garage garland.

I won't worry about it anymore at this point since my lights are down off the house now. I was hoping for a quick, slap-myself-on-the-forehead solution to this before I even started taking my lights down, but it seems to be trickier than that.

Rather than running a single strand effect on on a model group, perhaps I can run the single strand effect on my individual models. Hopefully I'll find out in November 2017.

[JonB256]

Is there a way to identify and change the strings that are "going the wrong way" in the xlights_rgbeffects.XML file?

[Gary]

That's a pretty messy-looking file. Interestingly, when I copy it from Notepad, and paste it into the message board here, it because a bit more readable. Here is a snippet from y Den's Roof:

<model DisplayAs="Single Line" StringType="RGB Nodes" parm1="1" parm3="1" StartSide="B" PixelSize="2" Transparency="0" Antialias="1" LayoutGroup="Default" name="Roof Den" parm2="38" Dir="R" X1="0.507812" Y1="0.625000" X2="0.376750" Y2="0.625000" versionNumber="1" StartChannel="&gt;Roof Garage:1">
      <dimmingCurve>
        <all brightness="-50" gamma="1.0"/>
      </dimmingCurve>
    </model>

Nothing too revealing here, in my opinion.

[Gilrock]

You need to use Notepad++ if you really want to view the XML files.   There is something revealing your X1 is greater than X2 so the points are backwards and you need to change the dots around or you're just going to be back here telling us something's not working.  You could just change the 1 to a 2 and vice versa if you wanted to edit the file.

[JonB256]

You need to use Notepad++ if you really want to view the XML files.   There is something revealing your X1 is greater than X2 so the points are backwards and you need to change the dots around or you're just going to be back here telling us something's not working.  You could just change the 1 to a 2 and vice versa if you wanted to edit the file.

X1 > X2
I will look for that. Thanks