Nutcracker 3.0.6 released. Spirograph enhancement

[smeighan]

The 3.0.6 release has these things in it.

 

1) Spirograph effect. Added ability to animate one of the slider bars. Fixed the Spirograph equation (was missing a parenthesis).

Since it is hard to describe how this effect now works, i made a 10 minute video 

https://vimeo.com/61690739

 

Here is a 45x45 horizontal matrix showing a Spirograph effect

 

here is a 20x120 half megatree showing the exact same effect as above.

 

2) Modified code to make left window stay large enough to see the models. Remember that you can always make the xLights window bigger by dragging the bottom left corner.

 

3) Removed all effects in RGBEffects.cpp and made separate files for each effect. RenderBars.cpp, RenderMeteors.cpp, .etc. This was a suggestion from one of the developers.

 

 

Find the latest code here: http://nutcracker123.com/nutcracker/releases/

 

thanks

sean

[Ron Boyd]

Sean,

 

When trying to install I get the following error:

 

C:\ProgramFiles (x86)\xLights\License.txt

An error occurred while trying to read the source file;

The source file is corrupted.

 

Any ideas or would it be my machine. I did a complete un-install of 3.05, re-started, Downloaded the file  and tried the install again. Still getting the same error. 3.5 installs with no problems. 

 

Thought you should know. 

[smeighan]

Sean,

 

When trying to install I get the following error:

 

C:\ProgramFiles (x86)\xLights\License.txt

An error occurred while trying to read the source file;

The source file is corrupted.

 

Any ideas or would it be my machine. I did a complete un-install of 3.05, re-started, Downloaded the file  and tried the install again. Still getting the same error. 3.5 installs with no problems. 

 

Thought you should know. 

weird. i did verify the error you are seeing by using the downloaded file. I had tried  3.0.06 before uploading it, and it had worked. I just now re uploaded it again and then downloaded it from nutcracker123. it works with out errors now.

 

thanks

sean

[Ron Boyd]

Installed fine now. Thanks.