DiyLightAnimation
Fun => The Porch => Topic started by: peteandvanessa on October 02, 2012,
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Here's my test run from last night of my Gangnam Style sequence
Running the sequence in the Light Show Pro 2.5 scheduler.
5000 Channels of LED Flexstrip via Laptop->Router->Etherdongle->Two 16 Port Active Hubs and also breaking out a single DMX universe for the Halloween singer and two light sticks via D-Light AC16 controllers converted to DMX:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbhfEt7Ki54&feature=g-upl
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Awesome
Job
Rick R.
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That was quick...and that's frickin awesome.
I want that sequence........($$$)
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And one more thing....your DIY icon dances to that music.....
<la.. <pop.. <la.. <pop.. <la..
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Pretty neat and you have most of your lights up for Christmas now too. What sequencer did you use?
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That was quick...and that's frickin awesome.
I want that sequence........($$$)
Just ask and you shall receive:
I've created a drop box for the Light Show Pro 2.5 sequences:
The dropbox is located here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jxo87lerfi200zv/8DUhg_7hCB?m
I will upload my sequences later today into the Public folder
I have also posted a short text document to the dropbox that gives a little detail on the sequences and the music that I used to sequence to e.g.:
There will be seven sequences that I will upload to the drop box.
The sequences are all in Light Show Pro 2.5 format and consist of
about 5000 channels of RGB Flexstrips and 2 x 16 channels of the
D-Light AC16 controllers converted to DMX format.
The most time consuming part of the sequences is sequencing the singers.
The main singer is on one of the AC controllers and uses five channels that control the face.
The channels for the singer are:
Channel Channel controlled
1. Upper Eyes
2. Lower Eyes
3. Big Mouth
4. Lower Mouth
5. OOh Mouth
The eight backing singers are simpler and are controlled by eight channels of LED Flexstrip
called Pumpkin 1 to Pumpkin 8.
The songs can be downloaded from iTunes / Amazon etc, the songs I used for the sequences are:
1. Ghostbusters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvkKX035484
2. Wubbzy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_A2YUwJmpU
3. Monster Mash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkKKzTYIe3Q
4. You are a Pirate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os5TXyJlEMc
5. Somebody's Watching Me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY
6. Russian Privjet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lo5QK9NGO4
7. PSY - Gang Nam Style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
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Pretty neat and you have most of your lights up for Christmas now too. What sequencer did you use?
I'm not planning on XMAS this year, it was 9 months of solid work to get it all working, so I need a break
There's an Etherdongle, two 16 Port Active Hubs and 25 Smart String controllers (mix of version 1 and 2), I fog machine and a three color DMX controlled Laser, and two D-Light AC16 Controllers (converted to DMX)
<fp.
I used Light Show Pro 2.5, I did have some issues with the scheduler, but I managed to get around the bugs and issues with the S/W
I'm running the sequences every night until Halloween :)
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I love it.
OPPA Gangnam Style 8)
The face makes it...Great.
Your parody is as funny as the actual video!
Very creative. <la..
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Did you use papagayo for the mouth sequencing or did you do it all by hand?
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Did you use papagayo for the mouth sequencing or did you do it all by hand?
All done by hand, I probably have about 60 hours of work invested in programming this sequence and most of it was getting the singing sorted out <fp.
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this forum is searchable through google. I'm not sure if you want a drop box account info posted publically.
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Very well done! Watching it I could tell you put a lot of hours into it. <res.
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this forum is searchable through google. I'm not sure if you want a drop box account info posted publically.
The username he used is in a red print. I don't think anyone can see that unless they actually log in to DIYLA. I could be wrong.
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I hate how my work blocks youtube and the video is not available on my cellphone. Stupid not available on mobile error.
I guess I could actually work.... instead of surf the internet..
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I hate how my work blocks youtube and the video is not available on my cellphone. Stupid not available on mobile error.
I bribed our system administrator.
John
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I hate how my work blocks youtube and the video is not available on my cellphone. Stupid not available on mobile error.
I bribed our system administrator.
John
HAHA! If they only knew......
<la..
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I hate how my work blocks youtube and the video is not available on my cellphone. Stupid not available on mobile error.
I bribed our system administrator.
John
I work from home, so my system admin is the coolest and easiest going person I know. I like him a lot. 8)
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John probably is the SA..
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Great Job ..I love it. I think we're going to see a lot of interpretations of this tune in the coming months.
Mike E.
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Just curious if you built the Animated face or built it yourself and if so, how did you build it and if not - where did you purchase it?
Thanks for any info..
Jason
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Great Job ..I love it. I think we're going to see a lot of interpretations of this tune in the coming months.
Mike E.
I really hope not. Using it for Halloween is a bit of a stretch but Christmas????
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Just curious if you built the Animated face or built it yourself and if so, how did you build it and if not - where did you purchase it?
Thanks for any info..
Jason
It's hand made. It's made out of a piece of peg board from Lowes. It's a 4ft x 4ft sheet. I marked the sheet where I wanted the lights to be and just drilled the pegboard holes slightly larger so I could push LED lights through the holes. Then I added hot glue to the LED lights on the back of the pegboard to keep them in place.
Sure easy to make and relatively low cost compared to buying an animated face.
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Great Job ..I love it. I think we're going to see a lot of interpretations of this tune in the coming months.
Mike E.
I really hope not. Using it for Halloween is a bit of a stretch but Christmas????
Horses for courses I guess. All I know is that folks that are viewing my Halloween display, tell me that Gangnam Style is their favorite out of all the songs I'm running :)
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Just curious if you built the Animated face or built it yourself and if so, how did you build it and if not - where did you purchase it?
Thanks for any info..
Jason
It's hand made. It's made out of a piece of peg board from Lowes. It's a 4ft x 4ft sheet. I marked the sheet where I wanted the lights to be and just drilled the pegboard holes slightly larger so I could push LED lights through the holes. Then I added hot glue to the LED lights on the back of the pegboard to keep them in place.
Sure easy to make and relatively low cost compared to buying an animated face.
Thanks - that is allot less mess than welding wireframes - Do you by chance have a daytime pic of the face - I would love to try and put one together and and more visual idea I have it might be easier.
Thanks again!!!
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Just curious if you built the Animated face or built it yourself and if so, how did you build it and if not - where did you purchase it?
Thanks for any info..
Jason
It's hand made. It's made out of a piece of peg board from Lowes. It's a 4ft x 4ft sheet. I marked the sheet where I wanted the lights to be and just drilled the pegboard holes slightly larger so I could push LED lights through the holes. Then I added hot glue to the LED lights on the back of the pegboard to keep them in place.
Sure easy to make and relatively low cost compared to buying an animated face.
Thanks - that is allot less mess than welding wireframes - Do you by chance have a daytime pic of the face - I would love to try and put one together and and more visual idea I have it might be easier.
Thanks again!!!
Sure thing, I'll take a picture later today and post it here later
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Great Job ..I love it. I think we're going to see a lot of interpretations of this tune in the coming months.
Mike E.
I really hope not. Using it for Halloween is a bit of a stretch but Christmas????
After Christmas till New Years Eve, I could see this song working. Last season I did "Johnny Jump Up" by Whiskey Galore, it was a hit!
This season, I'm hoping to have "Whiskey in a Jar" by 1916 ready to go and maybe "Red Solo Cup"
I find it kind of fun to get out of the normal, just for that short period till New Years.
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ok, an idea i have if you're going to use this song...
you NEED to make the outline of the sunglasses, if you're gonna do this.
it would totally make the song.
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ok, an idea i have if you're going to use this song...
you NEED to make the outline of the sunglasses, if you're gonna do this.
it would totally make the song.
That gives me an idea <la..
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Here's a couple of Pics of my singer:
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looks like it's only secured at the top (via 4 wires) do you have any issues with wind picking up under it?
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Great Job ..I love it. I think we're going to see a lot of interpretations of this tune in the coming months.
Mike E.
I really hope not. Using it for Halloween is a bit of a stretch but Christmas????
After Christmas till New Years Eve, I could see this song working. Last season I did "Johnny Jump Up" by Whiskey Galore, it was a hit!
This season, I'm hoping to have "Whiskey in a Jar" by 1916 ready to go and maybe "Red Solo Cup"
I find it kind of fun to get out of the normal, just for that short period till New Years.
I agree that between Christmas and NewYears is more of an end of year party time and the Christmas season is about over anyway, especially with the stores putting the stuff out before October. When I see houses running non Christmas songs before the holiday, it appears to me that for them it is no longer about the season, te season simply becmes an excuse to set up a light show.
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looks like it's only secured at the top (via 4 wires) do you have any issues with wind picking up under it?
Not so far, but it's a little windy today, so we shall see.
The Power cords sort of help a bit to keep it in place.
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WOW - Thanks for showing the daytime pictures - That was a great way to do that. Thanks for sharing!!
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It's a close match:
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Please do a video with the glasses on. I would love to see how this turns out.
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if this catches on, I want you guys to call it the Chris glasses! haha
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video done of chris glasses wil post tomorrow
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Nice job!
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For those that asked, here's my Halloween singer not complete with sunglasses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMtQqxFWo88&feature=youtu.be
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I have to sayb that the glasses make the face. They make the top of the eyes look like eyebrows from the angle that you shot the vid. Pretty cool.
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Some of you have asked if I could convert the main singer into Light O Rama format.
I have stripped down the sequence so it is just the main singer and saved it to the drop box in LOR 2 Format.
I've uploaded it to my drop box located here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jxo87lerfi200zv/8DUhg_7hCB?m
The file is called Gangnam Style Singer Only.lms
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Awesome!
Love it!
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Some of you have asked if I could convert the main singer into Light O Rama format.
I have stripped down the sequence so it is just the main singer and saved it to the drop box in LOR 2 Format.
I've uploaded it to my drop box located here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jxo87lerfi200zv/8DUhg_7hCB?m
The file is called Gangnam Style Singer Only.lms
I see two .lms files but cant get either of them to Work. Invalid limit for finding timing, and the rest of the files are a .msq extension?
I hope you could help me, I am dying to get gangnam style going.
Matt
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Try PM'ing JackFrost in this forum located here.
http://doityourselfchristmas.com/
I know he has successfully imported the .lms file into Light O Rama and has it working.
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Ok here is what I had to do to clear up the timing error when opening Gangnam Style.
1. Open .lms file with notepad
2. Go to the bottom and look for the line that talks about track length <track totalCentiseconds="0">
3. Change "0" to "21900" (21900) is the length of the mp3 I had 3:39 seconds converted to centeseconds 219 seconds X 100 = 21900 centiseconds.
4. Now click save as and make sure you save it as all files instead of txt which is the default, and leave encoding at utf8
5. Name the file anything you want and add the .lms at the end.
6. Click save and open in LOR.
PM if you have any questions
Matt :o
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Ok here is what I had to do to clear up the timing error when opening Gangnam Style.
1. Open .lms file with notepad
2. Go to the bottom and look for the line that talks about track length <track totalCentiseconds="0">
3. Change "0" to "21900" (21900) is the length of the mp3 I had 3:39 seconds converted to centeseconds 219 seconds X 100 = 21900 centiseconds.
4. Now click save as and make sure you save it as all files instead of txt which is the default, and leave encoding at utf8
5. Name the file anything you want and add the .lms at the end.
6. Click save and open in LOR.
PM if you have any questions
Matt :o
Cheers Matt
All - I've uploaded the main singer sequences to the drop box in LOR format (take Matt's note above into account when trying to open the files in LOR)
I've saved the following sequences in LOR Format into the drop box as sthe main singer only:
1. Gangnam Style
2. Ghostbusters
3. You are a Pirate
4. Somebody's watching me
5. Wubbzy
The drop box is located here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jxo87lerfi200zv/8DUhg_7hCB?m
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Saw you used the .msq files and converted them to .lms - is there a way that anyone knows how to import or convert either of these formats to Vixen (.vix)?
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You can use xlights converter to go from Los to vix.
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Thanks, I tried that and it seems to convert but in Vixen it opens and it looks like at blank sequence. And LOR2VIX gives errors even after fixing the timing setting to 21900...
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I meant to ask you if you had any issues with your SSC's and flex strips? Flickering, etc.
Your vid seems to indicate everything was OK. Thanks.
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I meant to ask you if you had any issues with your SSC's and flex strips? Flickering, etc.
Your vid seems to indicate everything was OK. Thanks.
No problems with flickering at all. All has been running well since October 1st in the LSP 2.5 scheduler.
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Thanks Pete. Did you mod any of the SSC?
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Thanks Pete. Did you mod any of the SSC?
There's about 24 SSC's out in the yard right now, NONE have been modified. About 16 of them are Version 1 (no issues with them at all), and another 8 are Version 2 (no issues with them either). The distance of the wires from the SSC and the LED Flexstrips is about 12-18 inches max.
The longest CAT5 run from the Hub to the SSC is 100 feet, again, no issues whatsoever
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Im having an issue making these usable as a Vixen file, I tried LOR2VIX and xLights and neither work. I adjusted the timing as said, but it seem to have other timing issues. On each channel in LOR2VIX the Channel Effect Waring comes up saying: (on the Gangham Style Singer Only seq - lms)
WARNING on Channel 'Top Eyes #1'.
It appears that either startCenti 21468 and/or endCenti=113379 are outside of the specified timing of 21900.
Ignoring the rest of the channel effects.
Press OK to continue processing.
And it get the same error for each channel. the fails the conversion with this:
null
Stack Trace:
lor2vix.Convert.convert(Convert.java:316)
lor2vix.LOR2VIXView.convertToVixen(LOR2VIXView.java:275)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.jdesktop.application.ApplicationAction.noProxyActionPerformed(ApplicationAction.java:662)
org.jdesktop.application.ApplicationAction.actionPerformed(ApplicationAction.java:698)
javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
And in xLights it completes but the Vixen file when opened is blank with no effects...
Any help would be great - Thank you.