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   So with spectrum I was able to view a picture of my house and see a sample preview of what the lights would look like on playback. How do I go by seeing this on Aurora?

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wellinge Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 02 Sep 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 44	Quote Reply Topic: Video Playback Posted: 02 Sep 2008 at 7:50pm
	So with spectrum I was able to view a picture of my house and see a sample preview of what the lights would look like on playback. How do I go by seeing this on Aurora?

LightChristmas Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Location: Equality, IL Online Status: Offline Posts: 993	Quote Reply Posted: 02 Sep 2008 at 7:58pm
	At the top, to the right of the "light bulb" is an icon of the grid. Clicking on this toggles the virtualizer (similar to Spectrum's visualizer). There is a default picture there of Michael's house. To change the picture to one of yours, you can do it one of two ways. The more convoluted way is to replace the file, DEFAULT.JPG with your picture which would be renamed to DEFAULT.JPG (provided its a JPG, that is!). The location is, C:\Program Files\Aurora Sequencer I prefer this route as you never have to enter the picture again when creating another sequence (yeah I'm lazy!). The other more conventional way is to click File/Properties and define the path to your picture in the "Picture" field. Edited by LightChristmas - 02 Sep 2008 at 8:01pm


wellinge Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 02 Sep 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 44	Quote Reply Posted: 02 Sep 2008 at 8:01pm
	ok it worked! Thanks! Oh one more question... is there a way, when drawing the device on the picture to change say the color of the bulb? I might just not see the button to do so....

LightChristmas Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Location: Equality, IL Online Status: Offline Posts: 993	Quote Reply Posted: 02 Sep 2008 at 8:05pm
	At this point, the color of the "bulb" is determined by the color you have selected for each channel (the color of the name tag for the channel). If you want to change the color, just click on the channel in question and change the color in the Display Options box. Edited by LightChristmas - 02 Sep 2008 at 8:06pm


lowinhz Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Location: Tn Online Status: Offline Posts: 17	Quote Reply Posted: 10 Nov 2008 at 10:01pm
	is there a way to have a default picture come up with all my channels programmed to it that i use over and over that way i dont have to draw everything out each time i start a new song. Something like when it ask if i want to import channels from another song can it ask if i want to use that same picture and settings of all the lights for that song it would save me from having to draw it out each time.

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: 11 Nov 2008 at 7:40am
	It already does that. When you import channels, it imports all of the drawing for those channels. You may have to update the picture if that is different though.
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cp1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13	Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2008 at 2:05pm
	You can do what I did. (Which is what Pony is talking about i think). Take and do your fist sequnce. Import the picture of your house. Draw all the lights, Save the file as a "template". Now for each song that you want to do, Start Aurora. Load your music. "Import Channels" (Thi is where you would select your template file). At that point all of your lights on your house get loaded as well... At least this is my perspective but Im new as well so I could be wrong in my process but it works for me.

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: 11 Nov 2008 at 2:26pm
	That is exactly what I have done. I have a sequence called "2008 template". Then what I start a new sequences, I just import that sequence whe it asks to import channels. All the channels are arranged correct and lights are drawn on them. Start sequencing immediately. Edited by ChrisL1976 - 11 Nov 2008 at 2:27pm
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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: 11 Nov 2008 at 5:20pm
	Exactly what I do, I do keep versions though, since I started out with 64 then added more, then moved some stuff, then changed pictures... I Can easily doo all of the changes in the new template file, then import the updates/changes to each file.
	Fine. You're so smart you rig up the lights. D-Light users Unite!