CLD Kevin Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 After I download 2.3.8 I noticed the twinkle effect just got a lot faster when selecting the channels to blink on and off randomly? Now is looks more like Shimmering.The view animation looks like it did. Is there now a speed control for the twinkle to choose how fast the channels are randomly selected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLD Kevin Posted July 14, 2009 Author Share Posted July 14, 2009 Yes, the visualizer. The twinkle effect ramdomly selects the channels choosen to blink on and off. The previous verson would "twinkle" slower than the current release on the visualizer. As if the channnels being selected randomly are being selected faster. Fast enough to almost like like Shimmering.I dont know if it the actual lights are being affected as I did not run a test, but the visualizer does look different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Several efficiency improvements were made to the Animator in version 2.3.4. It now uses much less CPU power than it did before, and because of that, we were able to get rid of some compromises that we had made earlier. Specifically, it now is able to redraw much more frequently than it used to, which means that fades look a lot smoother now than they did before.This probably had the unintended side effect of speeding up the twinkling. We'll check into it. Thanks for pointing it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Monsko Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Wait....so it only does that in the visualizer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Monsko Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-klb- Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 The visualizer is an approximation, especially when it comes to shimmer and twinkle. Even with fades, different lights will have different response curves, and the visualizer only has one response curve.The behavior of shimmer and twinkle is set in the firmware, not the software, and none of the firmware update logs document any changes to how twinkle and shimmer are implemented. So any changes in the animation window do not imply changes in how the effects are actually performed by the controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponddude Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 -klb- wrote:The visualizer is an approximation, especially when it comes to shimmer and twinkle. Even with fades, different lights will have different response curves, and the visualizer only has one response curve. The behavior of shimmer and twinkle is set in the firmware, not the software, and none of the firmware update logs document any changes to how twinkle and shimmer are implemented. So any changes in the animation window do not imply changes in how the effects are actually performed by the controller. Well said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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