How short can ramps be?

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   Hay, I compleately understand killing feature creap....
I'll just have to go back though and swap out all of the mini tres and arches for ONs first. Then I'll worry about the eves.

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Pony_God Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Location: Naples, FL Online Status: Offline Posts: 551	Quote Reply Posted: 21 Nov 2008 at 5:44pm
	Hay, I compleately understand killing feature creap.... I'll just have to go back though and swap out all of the mini tres and arches for ONs first. Then I'll worry about the eves.
	Fine. You're so smart you rig up the lights. D-Light users Unite!

ChrisL1976 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Location: Kankakee, Ill Online Status: Offline Posts: 1341	Quote Reply Posted: 21 Nov 2008 at 6:07pm
	the thought of going back and changing all those short ramps to stepped full on.
	Chris www.lightsonsixth.com

ChrisL1976 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Location: Kankakee, Ill Online Status: Offline Posts: 1341	Quote Reply Posted: 21 Nov 2008 at 6:15pm
	New Feature Request: Find and Replace Function Find all ramps less than 0.15 and replace with......... Think we can have this by Monday?
	Chris www.lightsonsixth.com

Pony_God Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Location: Naples, FL Online Status: Offline Posts: 551	Quote Reply Posted: 21 Nov 2008 at 8:07pm
	How about at least a "you have X ramps that are to short." so that it's the least amount of impact? Possibly a tiny external thing like the export? I know it's not the best, but I'd much rather have a stable 1.1 out, then add more things to the next release that need to be tested.
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ChrisL1976 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Location: Kankakee, Ill Online Status: Offline Posts: 1341	Quote Reply Posted: 21 Nov 2008 at 8:11pm
	I was joking about the find and replace....... Keep things stable....... I'll just spend some time this weekend replacing ramps.
	Chris www.lightsonsixth.com

Pony_God Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Location: Naples, FL Online Status: Offline Posts: 551	Quote Reply Posted: 21 Nov 2008 at 8:37pm
	lawn chair laptop nice hot tottie.... some really "inovative" displays. :)
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Comporder1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Location: Brookhaven, MS Online Status: Offline Posts: 163	Quote Reply Posted: 29 Nov 2008 at 10:26pm
	Michael, I am wondering if some of the short ramp issues may be related to Aurora..... I was running some tests today on my arches. I had everything unplugged except my 4 ACx16 arch controllers, wired using the USB adaptor. I used Aurora (editor) to test parts of certain sequences and more often than not, my aches were OFF. I decided that it was too late to do anything about it, so I just let it run, as is for my first night live. So I set up the scheduler and started the show..... and much to my surprise, many of my leaps that would not even register before, now look half way decent! So.... Aurora = nothing..... Scheduler = LEAPS!! Explain that! Carey Edited by Comporder1 - 29 Nov 2008 at 10:29pm

LightsOnLogan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3187	Quote Reply Posted: 30 Nov 2008 at 11:06am
	Comporder1, There is presently an issue with running the visualizer at the same time as running the output to the lights in the current version which will cause what you describe. Don't run those two combined. You shouldn't see what you described when running the grid/lights pair (but it does happen with the visualizer/lights pair). Of course, Borealis doesn't have to worry about pairing at all so it does just as well (or slightly better) as grid/lights. Long story short... the visualizer/lights pairing is the result of a Vista compatibility change. While Vista can run MSCOMM32, too many users were completely unable to install it on Vista due to "magic combinations" of UAC, elevation level, login credentials, sunspots, moon phase, and relative humidity. Because of this we ditched MSCOMM32 in favor of a different COM handler. The thread timing is different on the new handler than the old one, so some frames are dropping when the visualizer is running. We plan to fix this in 2009, but in the meantime avoid the visualizer/lights combo.


Comporder1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Location: Brookhaven, MS Online Status: Offline Posts: 163	Quote Reply Posted: 30 Nov 2008 at 2:22pm
	For the record..... I was using the Grid/lights combination on XP Home. I will say that my dedicated "Christmas Light" laptop is not the most snappy machine (Celeron M 1.3Mhz/1.25GB RAM), but it seems to handle Aurora fine.

LightsOnLogan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3187	Quote Reply Posted: 30 Nov 2008 at 4:20pm
	What zoom level were you at? Try zooming out so that the page count is less when "generating preview frames". It is possible that you were hitting the page file (disk rendering) instead of rendering in memory.