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Software => Nutcracker: RGB Effects Builder => Topic started by: smeighan on November 06, 2013,

Title: Nutcracker tutorial Nov 7th. New major feature, filtering for random effects
Post by: smeighan on November 06, 2013,: What: Nutcracker Tutorial:
When: Thursday, Nov 7th. 7pm MST (Denver Time) . 9pm EST, 6pm PST

Agenda:
We have a new developer added to Matt Brown, Frankr, Dave Pitts: Don Julien (djulien). Don has gone and did an extensive modification that will allow you to filter every slider and check box on the Nutcracker screen. This is going to change how you use the random effect generator. Now you can mark a block of your song, say 10 rows and have only those rows created with all spirals when random effects is clicked.

You can use this new feature to set every effect to teh same brightness level, say 66%.

You can use it to only select from a certain palette of colors and many more features.

Tune in this week if you want to see how this can help you create blocks of effects that are tied together.

I wanted to get Don's code out to all of you as i think it will help, i know i will be using it for my Christmas sequences.
I am now going back and continuing to work on the single strand effects.

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We will be using teamviewer. Ill start session at 6:45pm MST

Please join the meeting, by clicking on this link:
http://go.teamviewer.com/v8/m93271823

Meeting ID: m93-271-823

If you have a headphone click on the "Voice over IP" on the Teamviewer menu and unmute your headphone to be able to ask questions.

After my teamviewer fills up (We can have 25 viewers) we are setting up a second teamviewer for the overflow.
Dave Pitts will be hosting this second teamview.

If you cannot get into the first teamviewer then join this second session
http://go.teamviewer.com/v8/m30917736

Meeting ID: m30-917-736

Tutorials and latest releases are found on the releases page
http://nutcracker123.com/nutcracker/releases/

thanks
sean

here is a screen shot of the new 3.2.4 screen that show you can have random or locked next to each slider/click box. random looks like two blue arrows crossed, locked is the red padlock.

(http://nutcracker123.com/nutcracker/images/3.2.4_preview.png)
Title: Re: Nutcracker tutorial Nov 7th. New major feature, filtering for random effects
Post by: onesmoothhead on November 06, 2013,: Guys, I can hardly wait to see it! Great work again!!!!!!

Kevin
Title: Re: Nutcracker tutorial Nov 7th. New major feature, filtering for random effects
Post by: rdebolt on November 06, 2013,: >.d9
Title: Re: Nutcracker tutorial Nov 7th. New major feature, filtering for random effects
Post by: arw01 on November 06, 2013,: Plan to make it.. That single strand has been kick'n my bootty, so if there might be a couple of minutes at the end to do that from scratch and show it working for multiple arches, that would sure help me. From what I can tell on another thread, my setup is no different from others and some seem to make it work and others, like myself are stumped.

Which video should I look at about bringing some effects into LSP?
Title: Re: Nutcracker tutorial Nov 7th. New major feature, filtering for random effects
Post by: jnealand on November 06, 2013,: When will you make the new release available? I am ready to play with this new stuff.
Title: Re: Nutcracker tutorial Nov 7th. New major feature, filtering for random effects
Post by: maffeirw on November 06, 2013,: Sean
It's not fair that you tell us about this new functionality and don't let us play with it before your presentation. :(
I agree with rdebolt >.d9
Title: Re: Nutcracker tutorial Nov 7th. New major feature, filtering for random effects
Post by: smeighan on November 06, 2013,: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
Sean
It's not fair that you tell us about this new functionality and don't let us play with it before your presentation. :(
I agree with rdebolt >.d9

i would release it now, but single strand is not there. parallel development, merge branches and such. i am working to get single strand put back into 3.2.4. I could release 3.2.4 with the understanding for today that you can play with the new filtering but wont have single strand to kick around.
Title: Re: Nutcracker tutorial Nov 7th. New major feature, filtering for random effects
Post by: drlucas on November 06, 2013,: Quick question on the new release - did you guys fix up the window model bug (where the top/bottom nodes don't count in the channel count?) in this release?

Or perhaps the better question - is there a bugtracker for this project?
Title: Re: Nutcracker tutorial Nov 7th. New major feature, filtering for random effects
Post by: miw01 on November 08, 2013,: Wot no video Sean?
Title: Re: Nutcracker tutorial Nov 7th. New major feature, filtering for random effects
Post by: smeighan on November 08, 2013,: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
Wot no video Sean?

i will get it posted asap
Title: Re: Nutcracker tutorial Nov 7th. New major feature, filtering for random effects
Post by: JonB256 on November 10, 2013,: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
Quick question on the new release - did you guys fix up the window model bug (where the top/bottom nodes don't count in the channel count?) in this release?

Or perhaps the better question - is there a bugtracker for this project?

The bugtracker is using github, specifically https://github.com/smeighan/nutcracker/issues

(my issue, #63, may be very similar)
Title: Re: Nutcracker tutorial Nov 7th. New major feature, filtering for random effects
Post by: drlucas on November 10, 2013,: Thanks...I'll login and post it formally there.

Easy to recreate my issue....Preview Tab, Models, New Model, Display as Window Frame, change # of nodes Top (or bottom) from 1 to 2 and the channel count does not increment.