I'm committed to using LSP for this years show. I don't have time to learn another sequencer. I did a 16x16 matrix in LSP for Halloween, but I'm now coming to understand that LSP is fairly limited when it comes to a larger RGB matrix or mega tree. As far as I can see, LSP is limited to the following:
- massive RGB blends and transitions
- matrix animations
The matrix animation interface in LSP is fairly primitive. You have to assign a color to each pixel one click at a time. There isn't even a copy and paste function. For a 16x16 (256 node) matrix, this was laborious but doable. For a 512 or 1024 node mega tree or matrix, it quickly becomes next to impossible to do one pixel at a time.
One answer is to use xlights/nutcracker, but this involves exporting the sequence from LSP, importing to xlights, generating nutcracker effects and then playing in xlights. I haven't tried this yet, but it is a one-way process, meaning even a small change in the LSP sequence means going through the whole process again, right?
Here is a link describing this process: You are not allowed to view links.
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Login. The thread implies that the UserPatterns.xml approach doesn't work too well. Maybe I'm misinterpreting that.
Seems like there must be a better way, but I have not found anything like nutcracker native in LSP.
Help? :-)
Gary