P10 Color mismatch and other issues

[djmc2002]

Help, I have a 7x7 P10 panel which is part of both my christmas and halloween shows and while I do not have either show set up in the yard yet I'm having issues with my p10 in my christmas layout that I did not have with my halloween layout (strictly speaking in my on screen computer preview at this point)  In my halloween seq the colors, pictures etc seem to be correct in my preview on screen, however when I copied over the p10 to my Christmas seq I have a odd color differences in the Whole layout PREVIEW screen only (the small model only screen seems correct)  For example Santa which shows on the small model preview as typical red suit, etc on the  whole layout preview is BLUE.  When I have pictures showing on my P10 the colors are wrong and there is a odd wrap around where the picture is shifted to the left and the left edge of the pictures appears on the right side of the p10 model again only in the whole layout preview.  I'm at a loss of where my issues is as I copied the model from halloween directly into my christmas and have the exact same issues but when I go back to a halloween seq it appears fine.  I do have alot more channels in christmas but I have used the auto number where one model follows the next instead of hand setting start channel numbers.  Ideas?  BTW in the screen shots I have added a duplicate of the p10 at the top of the screen  just so it is easier to see and it is an exact dup of the actual one located directly below it. 

[jnealand]

Have you run the check sequence operation under the tools menu?

[djmc2002]

Yes and I found I did not have enough channels and I corrected that but the issues remains.  All runnit again and double check. Thanks for the idea

[CraigB]

Have you checked that the settings for the panels are the correct RGB, RBG, etc?

[Gilrock]

I'm not sure the code was ever updated to dynamically increase the channels when you add more to setup.  To be sure things are good get the Setup correct, exit the sequence, delete its FSEQ file, then reopen the sequence, render and Save.

[djmc2002]

I'm not sure the code was ever updated to dynamically increase the channels when you add more to setup.  To be sure things are good get the Setup correct, exit the sequence, delete its FSEQ file, then reopen the sequence, render and Save.

That makes a lot of sense because it is only effecting the Christmas sequences that I pull into this new set up and not the Halloween ones I created from scratch this year.  I check that.  Thanks Gil!


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[djmc2002]

Ok now I have a huge problem, I deleted my FSEQ and some how I lost all my models, network set up etc.  -- I had a xLights crash when I tried to render and play the seq and now its gone.  I look at the backups and they all seem to show a time close to when  I restarted xlights.  When they were gone I exited and said NO to save models and perspective changes.  Don't know where to go from here but am scared to mess with it cause don't want to corrupt it more than what I did.  HELP

[Gilrock]

Deleting the FSEQ file had nothing to do with it.  You need to find a sufficient backup file if you had backups turned on or had been hitting F10 to backup.  If there are no recent backups before the crash then you weren't saving any.  Its pretty easy to open up the xlights_rgbeffects.xml file in Notepad++ for any backup file and see if the models are listed.

[djmc2002]

Ok I'm on that and I just remembered I uploaded the xligghts rgb effect file to the forum also so that should be corrupted. Where do I want to load the RGB affects file to my main folder that X lights looks to i.e. my display 2017 folder?


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[Gilrock]

Yes wherever you have your show folder pointing to.

[djmc2002]

Yes wherever you have your show folder pointing to.

Great.- recovered the rgb effect file however I still have the same problem with the colors being wrong and shifted. Santa is still blue on the preview screen and correct on the model preview (it's not just a problem with Santa it's every picture the colors are wrong it just Santa is an easy example because everybody knows his suit is red)

I did run the sequence check routine and there are some warnings but they are I unrelated  in nature as a reference some layering Effects and other things but none of them relate to or are on channels touching the P 10


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[Gilrock]

Ok so what are you calling the "preview screen"?  You're saying the model preview and house preview doesn't match?  I'm not sure that's even possible because both screens pull the data from a common data array.

[djmc2002]

Ok so what are you calling the "preview screen"?  You're saying the model preview and house preview doesn't match?  I'm not sure that's even possible because both screens pull the data from a common data array.

Correct -  the  preview you can select from the preview drop down displays the colors and centering, wrap around different than the model preview (the one that shows/plays when you have selected the row with that model.  There are screen shots attached that show the issue. Not sure at this point if it affects the actual output to the physical lights. If it does not effect the output to the actual lights I'll just deal with it.


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[jnealand]

Looks like you need to just change the model color order selection.

[djmc2002]

Looks like you need to just change the model color order selection.

I don't disagree that the panels might be set to the wrong order but the problem only shows up on the  (VIEW) Previews window that shows the whole display.  The model show correctly in the smaller model only preview window.