Pre-Show Workshop: xLights 2-Day
Join in this unique and exclusive opportunity to learn xLights from the xLights developers! Students will be able to choose between the beginner or advanced classroom and can move independently between the two depending on topic of interest.
July 13-14, 2021 | 8:30am – 5pm
Lunch is included in cost
Agenda
- Intro to xLights: how to install/update
- How to create timing marks using audacity plugins
- How to mark music phrases
- How to layout your house, megatree, eaves, arches what should be first?
- Sequence your first song
- How to import in a sequence created by someone else, mapping file
- Modeling your layout
- Build in models
- Channel block
- Image model
- Vendor downloader
- Best practice setup and start channel configuration
- Configuring controllers from xLights
- Working with FPP
- Singing Faces
- Moving heads and other DMX models
- Submodels
- xLights internals
- Buffer styles
- Understanding the rendering engine
- Understanding how your data goes from an effect to a model to a channel to a controller to a pixel
- Value and Color Curves
- Sub-buffers
- Presets
- Advanced effects
- 3D
- DMX & State
- Morph
- Piano
- Music
- VU Meter
- xSchedule
- Basic playing your show
- Advanced play list items
- Events
- Synchronisation
- Setting up buttons
- API
- Web interface
- Open Q&A
- Troubleshooting (logs, check sequence etc)
- Sharing sequences & importing sequences
- Views
- Previews
What’s Included
Includes admission to xLights 2-day Pre-Show and lunch both days.
