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Offline oceanwanderlust

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how to re-render all sequences? aka command line options
« on: December 22, 2017, 10:38:21 AM »
I keep making tweaks to my setup and layout... how do I automatically open and save all of my xml files to regenerate the fseq?

I'm guessing there should be a command line or convert tool...?

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Re: how to re-render all sequences? aka command line options
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2017, 10:52:18 AM »
Install latest latest beta version and use Tools -> Batch Render

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Re: how to re-render all sequences? aka command line options
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2017, 10:52:53 AM »
I keep making tweaks to my setup and layout... how do I automatically open and save all of my xml files to regenerate the fseq?

I'm guessing there should be a command line or convert tool...?


There are two options...

passing "-r myfile1.xml myfile2.xml myfile3.xml ...." to xlights on the command line will render those files.  On a real os, you could do something like "xlights -r [A-Z]*.xml" in the show directory and it would render all the xml files that start with capital letters (and thus not the xlights_*.xml files).


When running xLights, there is a "Batch Render" option in the Tools menu.   It pops up a dialog where you can select the sequences to render (and there is a "Select all" on the popup menu).
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Re: how to re-render all sequences? aka command line options
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2017, 02:09:25 PM »
I updated to the latest and am running Batch Render! Y'all are saving me 30 minutes this afternoon, THANKYOU!