changing ramp style
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Topic: changing ramp style
Posted By: onewish1
Subject: changing ramp style
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 10:23am
| ok here is one for you experts... I did a sequence myself from scratch... added shimmer ramp downs... save.. close the file.. open it again... and the shimmer ramps changed to regular ramp downs.. happened twice now.. thought I was crazy the first time |
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Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 11:43am
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I'll test this. What percentages were you ramping from/to (e.g. 100% to 0%)? Are these regular shimmer ramps, or are they RGB shimmer ramps? ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: deweycooter
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 12:00pm
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Would it also matter what type of controller you had it set to? Ie, needs to be firmware 1.13+? ------------- http://www.deweycooter.com/wiki/index.php/Aurora - Aurora Lights Wiki http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: onewish1
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 12:15pm
| regular shimmer ramps 100 - 0... not sure how to check the firmware.. sorry |
Posted By: onewish1
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 12:17pm
| after putting them back in twice it is fine... just very annoying |
Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 2:28pm
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I think what Dewey was asking was what device type you have the channel set to when you pull up the channel properties dialog for for the channel? This setting needs to match the type of controller you are using. If it does not, then the effect will be re-rendered into something that the device type can support (the "generic" types and pre-1.13 D-Light do not support shimmer ramp for example). ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/">
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Posted By: onewish1
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 4:49pm
| oh thank you... it is D-Light ACx16 the controller I have |
Posted By: LightChristmas
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 5:46pm
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Onewish, What they are referring to is what version of Firmware is present on the ACx16. It can be the older 1.12 (no ramping shimmer supported) or 1.13+ where ramping shimmer is supported. Only way to determine this is to use the D-Light hardware utility. Also, there are three ACx16 choices in Aurora. One for pre-1.13, one for post 1.13 (just called ACx16), and one for RGB. Make certain the correct one is selected. All the Best! ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: deweycooter
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 9:03pm
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I was talking about what controller type is set in the sequence itself (the editor won't know what you actually have hooked up to the network - and if you try to issue a ramping shimmer to an older version of the firmware, it would likely ignore the command or just give a regular shimmer). Right click on one of the channel labels and go to channel properties to see what the controller type is set to. When sequencing, setting a ramping shimmer to a channel on a ACx16 pre 1.13 controlller should issue a warning - I was thinking that it might not hurt to ensure that it is not set on this older type. ------------- http://www.deweycooter.com/wiki/index.php/Aurora - Aurora Lights Wiki http://www.aurorashow.com/">
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Posted By: onewish1
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 9:16pm
| ok the d-light driver is 1.14... and my channels are set to ACx16 |
Posted By: Jonathan
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2009 at 4:15pm
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Ok, so the firmware on the controller is 1.14, which does support ramping shimmers. Now, what controller firmware is selected for your channels in Aurora? Right click in the channel area and choose open the BCE. The device type you selected when you first set up the controller will be displayed. Make sure it is set to D-Light ACx16 1.13+, not pre 1.13. It is set to 1.13+, yes? ------------- ~Jonathan |
Posted By: onewish1
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2009 at 5:22pm
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yes that is correct... it's very strange.. I did a sequence today and had no problem with it wonder why it only freaked out that one day |
Posted By: onewish1
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2009 at 9:54pm
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bad news it was not a one time event.. it happened again today.. it was in a sequence with regular ramps and shimmer ramps.. all in the same column .. saved my work.. closed the program.. opened it back up and some of the regular ramps changed to shimmer and the shimmer changed to regular ones.. not on all of them.. but quite a few |