Author Topic: A proposed sequence builder for rgb megatrees. meighan.net/rgbsb  (Read 7828 times)

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I'm glad you live close so that when you do get the equipment, I can see it in person!

Great job!

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Nice job on this.

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I have finished the scrolling text. I have added it into the library of effects



Now on to the xml work

thanks
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Sean,

Nice work can't wait to try these out with LSP2,  Thanks for your continued hard work. :)

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I just ran across this thread. I can't wait. Did you say that you could use any lighting layout with your software? I can't wait to see it and give it a try. What kind of icons are you wanting to use - that you don't have. Maybe I can help develop something.
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One thing i am thinking of doing is only making half of a megatree. This will cut the cost in half and yet will still display all of the effects i am making.

if you see any effects you would like me to support please send the video link and the timestamp of where the effect is in the video.

When I decide to get into the RGB stuff, I'm also thinking of doing a half megatree sort of like this:
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While I appreciate the amount of work and endless talent required to what you've accomplished so far, repeating patterns can get to be... well... repetitive. What would be super cool would be to have a palette of patterns to choose from (sort of like the variety of slide transitions and object animations in PowerPoint) and alllow us to smoothly and gracefuly blend/transition them all with the beat or directly to the notes of music.

Hmmmm... it sounds like I'm asking for a freebie version of Superstar lights that doesn't require LOR's software.   <yk..
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Well gary, that would be cool!

I have a lot of work in front of me before i start thinking about where i take the tool next. I am approaching 150 hours of programming so far. By the time i get all flavors of sequencers xml files working and everything integrated, i expect i will pass 1000 hours by this summer.

Although they look repetitive, they do take work to get them to be generic and to , well work.

Sometimes my imagination starts thinking "If i brought in the mp3 file and then find the beat, i could then transition between effects and .." Whoa, i say. I have crossed over into becoming a sequencer instead of a sequence builder.

I am thinking this summer i might go half way there. Get a list of time stamps and identify them with something that says transitions should occur here. Feed that list fo time events to rgbsb and  then lay in multiple effects synced to those points. I still would be web based and would still produce an xml file. It is just the sequences i make would be getting bigger.

thanks for the ideas

who knows, wait until summer. Or wait until i get my first hardware device. I did order a solder iron.

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I have added an option to have two lines of text. This is what i am thinking my future tree might use between songs

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Well, just as i was getting ready to go to bed, i got an idea about how to project pictures onto the tree.

I took the image i use for my avatar (99x139 pixels in a png file) and wrote a new model, picture projection onto the tree.
This means i will be able to also project movies. The problem is getting the resolution small enough. In this case i divided each axis by 5 and just took the rgb value. Better would be to average them, to enhance them, .etc.

But for a first pass, not bad

« Last Edit: February 23, 2012, by smeighan »
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But for a first past, not bad
Are you kidding? It's great! I just wanted to say thank you for all the work you're doing. You're an inspiration.
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That is AWESOME! >.d9

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That is incredible. Great work Sean
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Just amazing work!

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Sean this is amazing! I can not get over the knowledge and creativity you have come up with in a very short time.