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cornishHen:
Here's a video of a basic animation...

loadman:

--- Quote from: cornishHen on April 26, 2007, 08:35:56 pm ---Here's a video of a basic animation...



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Now I understand ;D   ..very nice   :notworthy:

So When you are not playing a game or scrolling through the game list I imgaine that you would want all 32 Leds used in animation (as per the attached vid)

Correct?

cornishHen:
The original idea was to have the buttons remain lit to the available game controls while playing games.  Here's  an event timeline I envisioned originally..

1.  Game Selection -> Side panels on custom animation while buttons change to game config
2.  Game Play -> Side panels on custom animimation while buttons remain to chosen game config
3.  Attract or Screensaver mode ->  Side panels and Buttons running on custom animation

If I bought another ledwiz with one for the panels and one for buttons, would that allow me to run an animation in the background on one constantly and have the other controlled by Mala?  I prefer not to spend any more money on the machine, but if it makes the end result easier to implement and allows for expansion ( future led controls ), then perhaps that's what I should do..

loadman:

--- Quote from: cornishHen on April 27, 2007, 05:42:42 am ---The original idea was to have the buttons remain lit to the available game controls while playing games.  Here's  an event timeline I envisioned originally..

1.  Game Selection -> Side panels on custom animation while buttons change to game config
2.  Game Play -> Side panels on custom animation while buttons remain to chosen game config
3.  Attract or Screensaver mode ->  Side panels and Buttons running on custom animation

If I bought another ledwiz with one for the panels and one for buttons, would that allow me to run an animation in the background on one constantly and have the other controlled by Mala?  I prefer not to spend any more money on the machine, but if it makes the end result easier to implement and allows for expansion ( future led controls ), then perhaps that's what I should do..

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Thanks for clarifying.... :-)

Hmmm Even if you have another LedWiz the MaLa Plugin (as it is) still won't let you control led-wiz '2' via other software as it looks for connected Led-Wiz's.  ;)

Splitting a Led-Wiz in half aint gonna work and changing the Plug-in to do one thing on one wiz and one on another is a bit of work  :-(

Ok one idea:

For the Side Leds:
I just e-mailed you a Plug-in that plays random LWA's from MaLa Start to MaLa Quit. (found in the plug-ins/LWA directory)

For the control Panel:
You would have to buy another led controller. But As you are not using RGB Leds's you could use MaLa hardware   or a Led-Wiz Mod.

This way there would be no conflict  ;)

arzoo:
cornishHen,
I think the LEDBlinky could be modified to handle your setup - but you would definitely need a second LED-Wiz controller for the side animations.

On the other hand Loadman's suggestion will definitely work - use MaLa hardware to light the controls and the plugin for the side animations. The only downside is that you won't be able to use any of the cool LEDWiz (or LEDBlinky) features.

Anyway, I like the idea of a "cab animation" feature, so I may do the mods to LEDBlinky regardless.  :dizzy:

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