Awesome show Frank....
Any chance of describing some of your prop and light details?
Tom
Certainly
So my show consists of the following:
10 SS Flex Strips on the vertical stripes. I built frames out of 1/2" PVC and then hot glued the Flexstrips to the frame. The frames are then mounted to the eaves with some zipties running through eyelets installed there.
10 120 node SS strings for the Mega tree. Run up and down so the tree it a grid of 20 60 node strings
The Coro north star on the peak is running 80 SS Square nodes.
The roof is run by one LE using DMX out of the Mega Tree hub (universe 8, pixelnet channels 4081-4096)
Icicle lights and side wall are run by a renard64 with dmx firmware. clear icicle lights are incans while the blue are LED.
The yard has two different networks. One dedicated to LOR controllers and the other dedicated to D-Light controllers. There are 28 mini trees arranged in a tree (or pyramid) pattern and another 16 2 color mini trees (8 red/green, 8 blue/clear).
7 8 channel arches.
25 snow tubes and 25 strobes are also scattered around the yard.
I build three bTrees (not sure where I got the name. I got the idea from the z tree designs. In essence they are 6 foot pvc trees connected to an octagon base) to hide all the gear in the yard. These are wrapped with 2000 incancs splt between rgb+w.
I have a 2 wide Led Triks panel as well. I have code that allows me to display twitter messages from my visitors on the board but I have not deployed it for fear of naughty teens.... I think for next year I will change the script so it only accepts re-tweets from my account so that I can verify everythign myself before it gets posted.
phew... I think that is everything
Oh all the sequencing for the songs I have posted so far was done in LOR. These are sequences that I have evolved year after year to keep up with the display. I have another sequence that I plan to film tonight that was done in LSP with the help of sielbear. Two do this sequence I had to do 4 different LSP sequences, each of 30 seconds. export them to LOR. Fixup all the newtorks info with python scritps. convert each to xLights and finally stitch all 4 segments together into a single xLights sequence. It was a long process but the end result is to me the most impressive sequence I have. The 4 LOR sequences combined were over 1GB in size and the final xlights sequence is only 20MB!!!! The LOR XML file is easy to read and process but it is totally inefficient...
Ok now that is everything
