Hello everyone! This will be my 1st year in the hobby and I?m working on laying out my display in xLights. I?ve outlined the features of the house, and added the props in I intend to use.
I?m trying to determine what prop I want to use as a center piece on the gable. I had originally planned a large snowflake, but then I saw the mesmerizer spinner on Boscoyo and thought it would be much more versatile and could be used for Halloween, as well. That got me thinking ahead on how I could use it as a snowflake (or whatever other shape I want) which led me to submodeling.
I know it may sound like I?m getting ahead of myself before physically setting up the display, but I?m trying to get a good grasp of what it will take or if I should just buy a snowflake this year.
The mesmerizer is capable of 1117 nodes which is the default when imported into my display. My thought was to reduce the count by skipping every other hole. To do this in the model, I halved each layer on the model. Well, the mesmerizer loads with a ton of submodels (which sadly doesn?t include any snowflakes but I?d still love to have them). However, the submodels were all destroyed when I halved the node count on each layer.
Is there a good way of reducing the pixel count and maintaining the default submodels?
Secondly, is there a simple way to import different snowflake shapes? Is there somewhere to download these?
I thought I would try drawing them from scratch, but when I click draw model in the submodeling screen, the view is a table rather than the actual circle I?m trying to work with. I see how this would be simple in a square or rectangle matrix, but not sure how to draw it here.
I?m very sorry for the long post. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Danny
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