Crash upon hitting PLAY

[jamills6377]

Commented out lines 135 & 138 as you suggested.....ran several tests....
ALL sequences played to completion with no crash.
NO sequences displayed a face when a Faces effect was there.
The jerkiness was much improved - still some there - but that may well improve when a compiled release is run instead of the debug version.
Seems to be moving in the right direction - that's for sure!!!

[Gilrock]

Instead of playing full sequences can you just create a short animation and try to just get a Faces effect working from the grid.  It doesn't make sense for those effects to play nothing at all its not like the data is any different.

[jamills6377]

Made a short animation - added in a face effect - rendered it and played it - NO ace appeared. Tried several different faces (different sets of images) - none worked. They do show up if I put them on as an image.

So to be sure it wan't a data transmission error - I moved the face over to start at 5-seconds in and place a 5-second butterfly effect ahead of the face. It played the butterfly (of course in debug it was not smooth - but it played it all).

Just as an aside - you might recall in the other thread about the exporting of clipboards and avis - it was the faces sect that was missing from my avi exports, too. Makes me wonder if there is some correlation between the two events.

[jamills6377]

Email reply with logs on it's way to you.

[Gilrock]

But you see the faces in the whole house preview after doing a Render all and playing it on the grid?

[Gilrock]

Create a 5 second animation with just a Faces effect that works in preview then render and save it.  I'd like to see the FSEQ file.  If nothing is showing up then it will be all zeros in the FSEQ file after the header.

[jamills6377]

No - it does not play it - or show it on the House Preview.
Attached that FSEQ and it's associated XML

[Gilrock]

No - it does not play it - or show it on the House Preview.
Attached that FSEQ and it's associated XML

Something is wrong in the sequence if it doesn't show on the House Preview.  xLights just sends the same data to the network that is used to show the House Preview so you got to get that working first.

[jamills6377]

Not a single one of my singing aces shows in any sequence.

[Gilrock]

I looked at the MonsterMash file you gave me and the very first Face effect appears to be using a Color palette that only has box #6 checked and the color in that box is black.  Might want check what colors you have selected for your Faces effects.  They must match the string type if you have single color models also.

[Gilrock]

Yep it appears that every Faces effect in that sequence is using the same color palette entry.  So it's all rendering just fine if you like black.

[jamills6377]

Now you have me confused! The aces are images - so why do they care what color is selected? The colors come from the actual image files.

[Gilrock]

Well I'm just staring at a text file so maybe I got it wrong....lol.   Bottom line is if they don't show up in preview they will not show up on the real thing.  Is the path still good they look like they come from here.
/Applications/xLights/shows/MyFaces/Scientist/Scientist_rest_eo.png

[jamills6377]

Yes - good path - because I can put on a Picture effect and point to one of them and have it show up.


[Just sent an email with USBlyzer info]

[Gilrock]

Yeah I hope USBlyzer will let me open the file since my trial expired.  I guess I could install on a different PC since I don't really need to capture anything.

I thought our effects only stored non-default values in the xml file to save space.  The faces effects have some type of transparent setting that I'm not familiar with.  I'd just make sure the effect is using defaults.  Click a different effect then drag a new Faces effect down and look at its defaults.