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Offline perigalacticon

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liquid effect not playing
« on: October 18, 2020, 05:11:27 PM »
I have 3 vertical led strips I am using with the liquid effect so it looks like flowing blood for Halloween.  On 2 of the strips it works perfectly.  The 3rd strip nothing plays on it at all for this one effect.  I am using fpp to play the sequence.  I have worked on this for hours.  I tried copying the effect from the other 2 models where it works perfectly and it still doesn't show.  In Xlights it shows fine in the previews.  I render and save the sequence and upload via Fpp Connect.  I restart the FPPD like I normally do and play the sequence.  All the other effects play on the strip except this one effect.  Can you help me with this please?

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Re: liquid effect not playing
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2020, 06:02:08 PM »
I found out that this model will not play any effects that are put on it.  This model is included in the Whole House group, and any effects placed on the group DO show on this model.  But no effects placed directly on the model will play.  Effects placed on other models that are in the Whole House group do play correctly, just this one model will not play effects placed directly on it.  I tried removing it from the display elements in the sequencer and saving and then putting it back on.  What setting would result in a model behaving in this manner?

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Re: liquid effect not playing
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2020, 07:01:32 PM »
Effects render from top to bottom.  So if the whole house effect is above the model effect the whole house effect wins. Pu the model in display elements beneath the whole house effect.  When you look at commercial sequences you will always see the groups at the top of the list and individual models at the bottom for this very reason.
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Re: liquid effect not playing
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2020, 09:51:20 PM »
1.  The effects I am trying to play are not while the whole house group is being used, they are after it is done.
2.  There are several models in rows below the whole house group that play "on top" of the whole house group effects, only the effects on those rows are seen. 
3.  There is one row, the first one after the whole house group, that won't play any effects placed on it.  All the rows below it play their effects.  See the attached screenshot of the sequence that has the blue cursor on the row where this occurs.  No effect I place on this row will play on the physical display from FPP, however, it plays on the preview in XLights.    The other rows below this row play their effects but nothing on this row.

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Re: liquid effect not playing
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2020, 01:41:34 AM »
I would need to see the sequence files. Package sequence and post it to us.