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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…

Tip of the day #002

Did you know that on the help menu there are menu items which will take you to: This Facebook group The xlights forum The xlights video tutorial archive The xlights website The xlights GitHub issues site … the official place for reporting bugs #tod

Tip of the day #001

Did you know that if you right click on the model name in the sequencer tab you can export the model data to an avi file. These are the same resolution as the model so they are not all that useful except for playing back on other models in xlights or even in lor. It…

2017.29 released

XLIGHTS/NUTCRACKER RELEASE NOTES: ——————————— 2017.29 Sep 19, 2017 — bug (keith) Fix regular crash due to slow rendering. This bug was introduced in 2017.28 — enh (cjd) Add option to run xschedule via xlights on linux (for AppImage usage) — bug (scottH) Custom Model Renumber (#917) — bug (dkulp) OSX – flipping back and forth…

2017.28 released

XLIGHTS/NUTCRACKER RELEASE NOTES: ——————————— 2017.28 Sep 18, 2017 — bug (dkulp) Fix crash on startup when ViesModelsPanel is not visible — bug (scottH) Fixed Divide by zero error if main window is re-sized too small. (#913) — enh (keith) Add ability to import LAS files … actually this existed … it just wasnt selectable —…

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