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Tip Of The Day #026

When testing from xlights without your USB controllers connected xlights will get an error when you turn on output to lights when xlights tries to open the USB device. To suppress these right click on the USB output in the setup tab and deactivate it. The output will then be greyed out so it is…

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Tip Of The Day #025

Do you really need to use every channel in every universe or can you leave blocks of unused channels. Check sequence has an opinion on this. If each gap is less than 512 channels then it will ignore it. If it is 512-49999 it will give you a warning. Anything 50000+ and you will get…

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Tip Of The Day #024

Matching the way you wire your models to the way xlights sees the models is critical to getting everything to look right. That is where the wiring view comes in. Just right click on the model in your layout and select wiring view to get an idea of how the pixels should be laid out….

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Tip Of The Day #023

Ever seen a warning like this in check sequence and wondered what it means and how to fix it? “WARN: Model Group ‘Verticals’ in preview ‘Unassigned’ contains model ‘Verical Door’ which is in preview ‘Default’. This will cause the ‘Verical Door’ model to also appear in the ‘Unassigned’ preview.” So I have two previews ……

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Tip Of The Day #022

Www.motionloops.com has a number of free videos which look great on matrixes and trees and they change the free selections from time to time. I am sure there are other similar sites. Using the hue adjustment slider on the colour panel it is possible to drop the video in a video effect and then colour shift…

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Release 2017.14 PRODUCTION

XLIGHTS/NUTCRACKER RELEASE NOTES: ——————————— 2017.14 May 17, 2017 — enh (gil) Add additional colors to color manager. — bug (gil) Fix Align Both Times case that was failing. — bug (gil) Fix effect panel not updating icon when using drop-down combo. — bug (dkulp) Fix crash if model using #x:y notation has end channel beyond…

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