Nutcracker Tutorial Friday, Oct 25th. 7pm MST, 9pm EST

[smeighan]

What: Nutcracker Tutorial:
When: Friday, Oct 25th. 7pm MST (Denver Time) . 9pm EST, 6pm PST

NOTE!!! This week only the tutorial will be Friday night NOT Thursday. I have a prior engagement tonight.

Agenda:
Since we did not get the Oct 10th tutorial to record with sound, friday night we will cover 3 things
1) Introduction to xlights/nutcracker. This will be a repeat of the Oct 10th tutorial. If you have never used xlights/nutcracker, this first part is for you
2) Palettes and how to set up Christmas and Halloween colors
3) Release of version 3.2.3 with new Single Strand effects for arches.


we will also go over how to share xlight sequences with other people.
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We will be using teamviewer. Ill start session at 6:45pm MST

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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.
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thanks
sean

[txag2008]

3) Release of version 3.2.3 with new Single Strand effects for arches.

Sweet!

[drlucas]

This is really awesome!

I posted in a different thread, i'll add the comment here too...

You should call this tutorial "Friday Night Lights!!".

I will be positive to leave work on time tomorrow and skip the trip at the bar for this.

[smeighan]

This is really awesome!

I posted in a different thread, i'll add the comment here too...

You should call this tutorial "Friday Night Lights!!".

I will be positive to leave work on time tomorrow and skip the trip at the bar for this.

do you work far from home?

i work for oracle and work from my basement. dont get to see daylight too often

sean

[drlucas]

Used to work for one of the big 4 accounting firms....then 3 years made a change and moved to public sector. Gvt hasn't made the turn yet for a very mobile workforce...they brought me in to help modernize voice/network services. About 2 days a month I work remote, the rest of the time its hoping the train and 14hr days....

[Danbe]

On yeah I don,t want to missing that tonightBig thank
Hi Bathurst  in New Brunswick you go to see good shows this year again

[JonB256]

First session if full. Go here:

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
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Meeting ID: m30-917-736

[arw01]

Sean you are a sql expert then?

[arw01]

Looks like we hit the 2 hours mark and the team viewer shut down for the night, learned a massive amount.  Thank you Sean!

[onesmoothhead]

 great learning tonight. thank you so much. great link!!!!! Kevin

[smeighan]

video has been posted of Oct 25 tutorial
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thanks
sean

[Steve Gase]

SingleStrand effects.   (no problem... just a reaction after viewing the video...)
 
Great stuff, but I did have a concern when I saw that the timing marks are tied closely to the effect behavior.  Auto-generated marks will not always be so nicely spaced for the arches, or may be very close together.  Also, if you use timing marks for other synchronization... then the arches can be impacted, ...
still getting my head around it. 
I'm sure you thought of all of the benefits and weighed the downside. 
hmmm.

[smeighan]

SingleStrand effects.   (no problem... just a reaction after viewing the video...)
 
Great stuff, but I did have a concern when I saw that the timing marks are tied closely to the effect behavior.  Auto-generated marks will not always be so nicely spaced for the arches, or may be very close together.  Also, if you use timing marks for other synchronization... then the arches can be impacted, ...
still getting my head around it. 
I'm sure you thought of all of the benefits and weighed the downside. 
hmmm.

First release has timing generated arches because that is what I need. Later release will have chases generated with the speed slider independent of the row timing


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[rdebolt]

First release has timing generated arches because that is what I need. Later release will have chases generated with the speed slider independent of the row timing

Request to maybe have bounce as well so that the chase goes one way then changes direction.

[drlucas]

Request to maybe have bounce as well so that the chase goes one way then changes direction.

You currently can do that...just create two time slices of the same length, and on the first time slot don't check the R to L button, then on the second time slot check the box. Seems to work in preview mode for me.

- one request I'd like to see as well would be to just have a preview show what the chase would look like regardless of the time slice allocated because without setting up the sequence it's really hard to see the preview of what the chase will look like.