These files are the required files to generate light patterns for the Saint Louis City Museum ferris wheel.
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Clone/download the ferriswheel repository, and then head into the folder named xlightswheel.
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Download a program called xLights - xLights is a free and open source program that enables you to design, create and play lighting displays. You can find all the xLights releases here
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Follow the installation instructions on the download page for your system, and start the xLights program.
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Launch xLights and you will be prompted for a project folder, select the xlightswheel as your show diretory contained within this repository
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Once launched, at the top of xLights you'll see three tabs,
Controllers
/Layout
/Sequencer
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Click on
Sequencer
- make sure you Don't modifycontrollers
orlayout
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Click
>File >New Sequence
Choose Animation and 20 frames per second (20FPS) -
From there you should now see the silhouette of the ferris wheel, and can create your very own sequences in the 30 second timeline.
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Drag an effect on to the
ferriswheel
item in the timeline and modify the parameters in the Effect Settings pane. -
Watch as your creations light up the wheel! Tweak them as you like!
- Head to
>File >Save
- Give your sequence a name and save it in the xlightswheel directory
- This operation will save out two files,
NAME_OF_SEQUENCE_FILE.xml
andNAME_OF_SEQUENCE_FILE.fseq
- On your local machine, you'll need to open your terminal
- Head into the
ferriswheel
folder (cd ferriswheel
) git add xlightswheel/NAME_OF_SEQUENCE_FILE.xml xlightswheel/NAME_OF_SEQUENCE_FILE.fseq
git commit -m "I added my own sequence for the STL City Museum ferris wheel!"
git push
- Head to github and view your cloned repository, there should be a green button there to
Create a Pull Request
- Create a pull request from your updated repository back to the origin, be sure you've included your xml and fseq files!