looking good. If i had a printer, what would a 3ft version cost to print?
First partial test print to see if it works and can be printed from home seems to be a success
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I like this idea. when you get something you feel is good will you share the STL.
Can anyone tell me how to get the effect he does on the spiral trees at the time from 1:15 - 1:20? I am using Xlights because I have seen this effect on mega trees and now on the spiral trees. I couldn't figure out how to do it last year in my display so I have been trying to figure it out with no luck. Then I seen this video with it so I figure I would ask here.
Thanks
It's a single strand with a bouncing chase applied to a tree model in xLights. I duplicated the effect on one of my Megatree models in about a minute by selecting a single strand, one chase, chase size of 29, 1 cycle, and "bounce from left" chase type. My guess is he's treating the spiral trees as a matrix of some kind, but I haven't analyzed the remainder of the video to verify that.
Can anyone tell me how to get the effect he does on the spiral trees at the time from 1:15 - 1:20? I am using Xlights because I have seen this effect on mega trees and now on the spiral trees. I couldn't figure out how to do it last year in my display so I have been trying to figure it out with no luck. Then I seen this video with it so I figure I would ask here.
Thanks
I used bullet nodes on my Home Depot Spiral trees as well. One thing I did differently from above is Iaid the bullets along the plastic spiral and zip tied them down end to end. I started out putting them perpendicular to the spiral but I didn’t like the loops of wire hanging down (I know it can’t be seen at night...). I was skeptical about visibility since you are really just seeing the side of the pixel but it ended up looking great in my opinion.
The small trees have 103 pixels and the large trees have 224. I painted the base and pole flat black to help it disappear at night. I also ran a power and data wire from the last pixel on the top back down to the bottom so all of my data and power injection connections are all in one spot. Here are a few pictures.