DiyLightAnimation
Software => Nutcracker: RGB Effects Builder => Topic started by: smeighan on March 05, 2014,
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Well you may have heard, LOR has purchased a copy of xlights/nutcracker.
http://forums.lightorama.com/index.php?/topic/31139-software-enhancements-for-2014/
Matt and I were approached by LOR to see if LOR could get a copy of our source tree. Since our code is, and will remain , open source we needed to figure out to do this. Matt and I did NOT do this for any commercial reason. We asked our self if LOR had access to our code would it help users? The agreement we came to was to allow a one time snapshot of our code that LOR would pay for. Matt and I are not working for LOR, we are not stopping development of xlights, we will be making the same number of releases as we have in the past. Matt and I do NOT know what Dan will do with the code. The terms were they get a one time copy. I think he will use it to seed his code base so that it can scale to the larger channel counts. We finished this deal a few weeks ago and have been waiting for LOR to make an announcement. I think this is good news for LOR in that they get the great architecture of xlights to help scale. It does NOT effect us in our development. Dan is an honest and upfront guy. Our code is available opensource. they could have taken parts of it and we would never have known. I think this is good for xlights users in that our file formats (xseq, fseq) and the integration with LOR will become tighter. We are NOT feeding our future versions into LOR. Matt and I wish Dan and LOR the best of luck. we, the xlights team, now will go back to what we are working on. We have over 100 items to prioritize.
Matt and Sean
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Congratulations to yourself and Matt for the recognition this brings you and the other developers all the hard work they have done. Although I do not make my shows in nutcracker, the tools, and ability to quickly work out interesting effects with my pixel strings has been a great help in my enjoyment of this hobby.
I look forward to what you come up with next, and that all of the sequencing software learns and improves from each other!
Alan
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Great work and I am sure it will be used to bring smile to many more people int he world. Congrats!!!
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I am glad LOR is taking this step. Sean, I know this is validation for a lot of hard work. I like that you have an active display and really get what people are trying to do and act very quickly in answering questions and providing updates. Thank you both for your hard work.