New Whole House Effect!

[rdebolt]

I want to say that this is an awesome addition! Thanks to the entire Xlights\Nutcracker team! 

[bassmants]

Didn't see that, where/what is it?

[rdebolt]

Latest release. 3.2.11 Watch the copy and paste tutorial!

[bassmants]

OK, thanks.

[smeighan]

Latest release. 3.2.11 Watch the copy and paste tutorial!

in the latest tutorial i talked about

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1) Cut, Copy, Paste  and how it works
2) Setting up a model for your entire house. This allows applying effects to everything. one caveat, this year this whole house model does NOT have the x,y location so you cant do things like a butterfly moving left to right across the display. you can apply twinkle, maybe spirals. it will look pretty good, just not perfect. next year will get a whole house model with x,y location.

when you have two models for the same channels, you will notice that we render left to right in the grid. have your whole house model be last.

so example:

megatree, arches, whole house model

set whole house model to "none,none" and it wont effect the earlier columns.

when you want the whole house model to kick in, just add an effect. since we render models left to right, if whole house is last it will override the earlier models.



thanks

[JonB256]

If you have Xenon Strobes in your display, be careful. The rapid on/off will not be good for them or the TRIACs on the controller.

If you have LED strobes, you should be OK.

[Steve Gase]

nice tutorial, Sean!

wrt the whole-house effect:

What about the situation where your RGB pixels do not align with Red every 3rd pixel?
with universe boundaries, with 4-channel floods, and gaps, it is likely a large display will not work as desired.  maybe a buttrerfly effect may not be noticeable, but a color wash would be a problem.

ie: I'm suggesting that not every channel will fit the formula: 

RED if ((channel mod 3)==1)
GREEN if ((channel mod 3)==2)
BLUE if ((channel mod 3)==0)

at first thought, it might make sense to have multiple strings in the matrix with each string starting at the Red channel, but with different lengths, the matrix does not "fit" the problem.

thoughts?

click "individual start channels" and adjust starting channels for each of your strings.

[drlucas]

having the ability to sweep across a house from corner to corner is going to be awesome - looking forward to seeing it in the future.... I'm with Steve on the enhancement around floods and I am hoping a future version of xlights has a 4 channel model in it for those aethers. When I do my testing, I always uncheck the white channel because I think there is something wrong with the aether, then remember the white channel getting in the way

[Steve Gase]

having the ability to sweep across a house from corner to corner is going to be awesome - looking forward to seeing it in the future.... I'm with Steve on the enhancement around floods and I am hoping a future version of xlights has a 4 channel model in it for those aethers. When I do my testing, I always uncheck the white channel because I think there is something wrong with the aether, then remember the white channel getting in the way

Oh... I just remembered another gotcha.  I programmed my SSCs with hybrid mode to allow me the option of simplifying my sequencing later.  In the end, hybrid gets in the way because when the hybrid channels get used, the channels later in the string get ignored. 


I plan to remove hybrid before next year's show.

[smeighan]

having the ability to sweep across a house from corner to corner is going to be awesome - looking forward to seeing it in the future.... I'm with Steve on the enhancement around floods and I am hoping a future version of xlights has a 4 channel model in it for those aethers. When I do my testing, I always uncheck the white channel because I think there is something wrong with the aether, then remember the white channel getting in the way

Oh... I just remembered another gotcha.  I programmed my SSCs with hybrid mode to allow me the option of simplifying my sequencing later.  In the end, hybrid gets in the way because when the hybrid channels get used, the channels later in the string get ignored. 


I plan to remove hybrid before next year's show.

we could make it so we skip the first 3 channels ona  string, it will need some thought how to make the ui intuitive.

i dont use the hybrid mode but some do

[Steve Gase]

having the ability to sweep across a house from corner to corner is going to be awesome - looking forward to seeing it in the future.... I'm with Steve on the enhancement around floods and I am hoping a future version of xlights has a 4 channel model in it for those aethers. When I do my testing, I always uncheck the white channel because I think there is something wrong with the aether, then remember the white channel getting in the way

Oh... I just remembered another gotcha.  I programmed my SSCs with hybrid mode to allow me the option of simplifying my sequencing later.  In the end, hybrid gets in the way because when the hybrid channels get used, the channels later in the string get ignored. 


I plan to remove hybrid before next year's show.

we could make it so we skip the first 3 channels ona  string, it will need some thought how to make the ui intuitive.

i dont use the hybrid mode but some do

Is there a way to restrict the list of channels to those which are defined in other models?
Maybe a model-aggregator that takes a list of models to build a new one?


If you could limit the channels to what is defined elsewhere, you can avoid the hybrid channels and W-hite channels.  Those other models would be created without the problem channels.

[jnealand]

I decided to remove my hybrid channels this year and then I found out I did not have enough time to fix all the areas where I used in hybrid and had to go back and put the hybrid channels back in.  fortunately I did not compress my channels and the space for the first 3 channels was still there.  The next challenge was to be able to turn them off in xlights.  I created a separate model for the hybrid channels calling it a 3 channel RGB entry and then I could put a black color wash there to turn them off in an old sequence as I started to use nutcracker to put new effects in.  Don't know if that is the best way to do it, but it seems to work.

[taybrynn]

That's a good idea, I need to make a model with my string mode hybrid channels in it !

[taybrynn]

I have to say I'm addicted to the models in xlights/nutcracker .... Esp. The ability to put in various channel starts so the channels don't have to be contiguous,

One question, on a custom model ... It appears those channels have to be contiguous .... Is there a way to specify the channel #'s for a custom model ?