Author Topic: Issue with House Preview and Importing/Converting a Vixen Sequence  (Read 3598 times)

Offline jwilliams31

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I'm trying to convert/import a Vixen sequence.  I've tried:
1. Converting the .vix to .fseq
2. Creating a new audio sequence and importing the data from the .vix file during sequence creation.
3. Creating a new sequence and leaving it blank.  Then importing elements from the .vix file

I created the map from the vixen channels to the new xLights models.

When I run the sequence, I'm getting some odd/different results.  Either 1) the house preview doesn't work at all, or 2) the preview works, but some of the models don't "light" up.  The sequence shows data for those model.

One thing I did notice. When creating a new sequence and then importing during the new sequence "wizard", there are 2 elements/models that are missing data.  If I then go to Import Elements from the Vixen file, and use my mapping, then the data shows up.  But those models don't "light" in the preview.

I'm running 2024.17 64-bit.

I do not have any of my lights or controllers up yet so I can't test to see if the sequence is sending the correct data and it's just something odd with the preview, or if there is a legitimate problem with the sequence data.


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Re: Issue with House Preview and Importing/Converting a Vixen Sequence
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2024, 07:00:27 PM »
Hoping to bump this because it is frustrating me.  I now have lights and controllers up.  The preview is correct, nothing is on the preview and nothing is being output to the lights.  I ran a simple test and my lights and controllers are working with xLights, it's just something with these sequences no functioning properly.

Here is the really odd thing though.  If I select a portion of the program on a single channel, the preview will light up, then that element starts working.  However, this trick does not seem to be working for every channel/element.

I looked at the sequence file and I cannot find anything different between an element that seems to be working properly in the preview and one that doesn't.  Everything in the sequence file looks "normal".  At least no oddities stand out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, otherwise, it looks like I'm running Vixen again this year.