Author Archives: Will Frostick

Tip Of The Day #012

Xbkp files are files created by xlights in one of two circumstances. 1. If you have auto save turned on and you have unsaved changes xlights will save the layout and current sequence to an xbkp file when the auto save time has elapsed. 2. If you press f10 to do a backup and you…

Tip Of The Day #011

When creating a custom model and entering the model data for a pixel model always start the node numbering at 1 and then increment from there. While uncommon it is not illegal to skip numbers which makes it possible to create Frankenstein models which are actually selected nodes from multiple models. If you do this…

Tip Of The Day #010

If you want to share a sequence with someone always use the tools menu package sequence method as this guarantees the package will include all the source files necessary to reproduce your sequence regardless of where on the computer they happen to be. When using such a sequence there are some key things you need…

Tip Of The Day #009

When trying to sequence your lights to the beat and the actual beat starts in the middle of the minimum time slice always mark the beat and place the effect before the beat. Due to delays in getting the data to the lights, it will look much more synchronized. Same goes for lyrics. If the…

Tip Of The Day #008

If you select one or more models in the layout tab and right-click on them a menu will appear. One of the cool things you can now do is lock the models. This locks the position, size and skew parameters make it impossible to accidentally move them while selecting other models. #tod

Tip Of The Day #007

The easiest way to select multiple items (effect or timing marks) in the sequencer is to unselect all of your timing tracks. Now when you click and drag a yellow selection box appears which you can drag to encompass all the effects you want selected. As a bonus once you have a bunch of effects…

Tip Of The Day #006

If you have a problem in xLights … before raising it as a bug please try to reproduce it in the latest beta version. Bugs in old versions are most likely known and already fixed. The only difference between a beta and a production release is we focus a little bit more on bug fixes…

Tip Of The Day #005

Tools menu / check sequence is the first thing all xLights users should master. It embodies expert knowledge of a whole bunch of things you can do which generate odd or just plain broken results. If check sequence says you have an error it just plain won’t work … fix it. If check sequence says…

Tip Of The Day #004

When in the sequencer the space bar acts as a shortcut for the play button. The home key returns the audio to the beginning of the song. #tod

Tip of the day #003

When sequencing obviously you can zoom right in to check is two effects start at the same time or are the same length but you don’t need to do all that zooming. When you move the mouse over an effect it’s start time, end time, duration and type are displayed in the status bar at…

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