Question about grouping

[lonewolf41]

I think I know the answer, but with the new smart string programming software that has grouping capability, can you group in different sizes?  I have 3 nested stars, a small inside a medium inside a large (see picture), that I would like to group the nodes on each star together.  So I would like the 40 nodes on the outer star grouped as one, the 30 nodes on the medium star grouped as one and the 20 nodes on the inner star grouped as one.  Right now I have all 90 nodes running off one controller and would like to continue to use one controller, but also would like to have each star as one "unit" to make sequencing easier.

Thanks,
-Keith

[njKeever]

I don't think you can. I made a similar star; all out of one SS strand. I flashed it as individual pixels to allow more flexibility in programming, but then created groups in LSP to control each nested star as one.

[Steve Gase]

I don't think you can make different-sized groups.

Can you consider making groups of 10 nodes?

Then, you'd have the outer with 4, the middle with 3 and the inner with 2.  It will still have performance and sequencing benefits.

[KeithTarpley]

Greetings,,,

You could look at strand effects in Nutcracker.

Keith

[lonewolf41]

Greetings,,,

You could look at strand effects in Nutcracker.

Keith

Thought about that, but I'm sure there will be instances where nutcracker will be way overkill for these and if I had them reduced to 3 channels each, they would be easy to sequence.  It is an option, just still more complicated than I wanted.

Thanks,
-Keith

[lonewolf41]

I don't think you can make different-sized groups.

Can you consider making groups of 10 nodes?

Then, you'd have the outer with 4, the middle with 3 and the inner with 2.  It will still have performance and sequencing benefits.

I like this the best.  I was thinking about groupings of 20 (or 40, just leaving the last 20 off for the inner star as I don't think the controller would know they weren't there), but that wouldn't work for the middle star but 10 would work.  Instead of 3 segments, I would have 9.  Still very manageable.  I haven't played around with groups yet (just got the first SSC V3 running yesterday) so still feeling my around this new capability.

Thanks for the input,
-Keith

[lonewolf41]

One more question.  Lets say I have a string divided into 2 groups.  So it takes 6 channels for the string.  How do the channels work with grouping?  Is it:

1 - Section 1 Red
2 - Section 1 Green
3 - Section 1 Blue
4 - Section 2 Red
5 - Section 2 Green
6 - Section 2 Blue

Or is it:

1 - Section 1 Red
2 - Section 2 Red
3 - Section 1 Green
4 - Section 2 Green
5 - Section 1 Blue
6 - Section 2 Blue

I'm sure I am missing something simple or way over thinking this, but need to know for sure before I go too far.  Sorry for all the basic questions.   

TIA,
-Keith

[chrisatpsu]

1 - Section 1 Red
2 - Section 1 Green
3 - Section 1 Blue
4 - Section 2 Red
5 - Section 2 Green
6 - Section 2 Blue