Difference between revisions of "XLights"

Revision as of 03:18, 18 August 2015

Xlights was created in 2010 by Matt Brown. Matt, a LOR user, wanted a show player that would have low system requirements and high performance.
Xlights has been a reliable player used by hundreds of Christmas Light enthusiasts

Nutcracker was written by Sean Meighan in 2012.
Sean, who was new to Christmas Lights, wanted an easier way of creating effects on smart RGB devices.
Sean came up with the concept of defining a model (Megatree, matrix, arches, .etc.) and then dropping effects (butterfly, spirals, text, .etc.) onto the model.
Nutcracker 1.0 and 2.0 were developed as a web application. To create effects you would log into the web, define models, and drop effects.

In January 2013, Matt Brown took the web based code that Sean had written and re-wrote into C++ and made Nutcracker part of xLights.
It produced a real time Nutcracker product.
Example:
- The snowflake effect took 5 minutes to generate effects using Nutcracker 2 minutes
- In Nutcracker 3 (The xLights port), that same effect now took less than 5 seconds.

In January 2015, a group of courageous men took on the task to develop the next evolution of xLights/Nutcraker.
Audacity timings have been incorporated into the platform. For those who wish to add and create timings manually, please see below.

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 ===xLights/Nutcracker - The Next Evolution in computer animated lighting!===
 * In January 2015, a group of courageous men took on the task to develop the next evolution of xLights/Nutcraker.
+* Audacity timings have been incorporated into the platform.  For those who wish to add and create timings manually, please see below.
+** [//audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows/ Free Audio Editor and Recorder (Windows)]
+** [//audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac Free Audio Editor and Recorder (Mac)]
+** [//wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audacity_Wiki_Home_Page/ Audacity Wiki]
+** [//manual.audacityteam.org/o/ Audacity Online Manual]
+** [[Timing Tools]] (add-ins)
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