AC Mega Tree

[K-State Fan]

Going to redo my set up for 2021. What is the correct way to draw a 3 color ac mega tree? Right now I use three separate tree models one for each color.


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[jnealand]

that is the way I used to do it.  one model per color and place them on top of each other, but 1 pixel apart.

[Gilrock]

Depends on whether you need to do the auto-configure stuff for you controllers or not.  The old school way to do this was just create a normal Tree model, set strings to 1 and change string type to 3 Channel RGB and you can get a dense tree that only operates on 3 channels.  It will work just like a 3 channel AC tree.

[K-State Fan]

I was planning on use the features in xLights to set my controllers.


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[Gilrock]

Ok well good luck.  Try what I said it might work.  I just don't have much experience with the controller configuration stuff.  In my opinion xLights is 5 times harder to figure out now.

[K-State Fan]

I will try it and see if it works for me.  I have never used those features in the past since I had a model that was connected to two controllers.  Thought I would try the new way and see how it works.

[Gilrock]

Well the main restriction is number of outputs used on the controller has to match number of strings in the model.  It used to be nice that we didn't worry about hardware in xLights we just created a chunk of data and then you dissected that data at each controller.  Setting up controllers is not easy and we just moved all the difficulty inside xLights to the point where someone like me that developed the code for 5 years isn't sure how to tell you to set this up.  I'm just not sure if you had say 3 outputs on a LOR AC box and were running it from a DMX output of a Falcon board it probably treats it as 3 outputs so my suggestion wouldn't work for auto-configuring.