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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: aceybrimshore on September 01, 2016, 10:18:06 pm
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Hey,
I'm new to this forum, located in Australia and been working with arcade DIY for about 5/6 years.
I recently purchased some Electric Ice 2 push buttons, 2 LED-Wiz boards and RGB Trackball Upgrade Kit V2.0. From Groovy Game Gear. To freshen up my X-Arcade Tankstick.
I have installed everything and it's all lighting up, running animations plus it's working alongside Hyperspin.
The RGB Trackball Upgrade Kit V2.0 does Red, Green and Blue fine. But when it has to do White it's emitting Pink .
(I thought about changing the intensity but that would effect my other RGB buttons doing White).
All other buttons can emit White when all 3 RGB LEDs are on (they're using Helio9 LED).
Trackball is using RGB Overdrive but I wouldn't of thought it's version of White was Pink.
Is this normal?
I was going to email GGG but the website is down.
I went though the colors.ini with Notepad ++ and replaced anything that was Trackball=White to Trackball=Blue just so it stopped coming up Pink .
But if anyone has any ideas or answers to why this might be showing up as Pink. I would love to hear what you have to say.
*** I added a picture of what is happening***
AceyB.
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The LEDs on the overdrive lighting unit are individual R, G and B LEDS, and are not balanced, in order to allow each LED color to perform at its highest possible brightness. Simply create a new color (TBWHITE?) and define the settings for it in your software to include red at a lower value than the other two colors. Then use that color for your trackball.
BTW, GroovyGameGear is now back online.
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Hi Randy,
Thanks for your reply.
In the Color-RGB.ini I created TBWhite 15,48,48.
I went into controls editor and I can map that per game (shufshot now uses TBWhite).
I was aware this could be done, and I was already messing around with the idea.
I might not have said it in the earlier post though.
This works it's just going to take a while to make every game that comes up look pretty...
As I said previously I went into colors.ini and changed all Trackball=White to Blue (because I liked the colour).
It worked for evey game that is listed in colors.ini
I would of expected shufshot to use blue as I changed all white to blue.
When I went into colors.ini shufshot isn't in there.
Where does it grab the information to light up the LEDs if the game isn't in colors.ini but it lights up.
It was also lighting up on that particular game im talking about before I opened it in controls editor.
Something else I have been trying to get my head around.
When running hyperspin I have it set to show demo controls for lets say 15 seconds. The games that are mapped to LEDs show up fine. Is there a way to tell the software when there are no controls defined to do a default all buttons light up (or whatever I wish to make it)?
Hopefully this all makes sense.
AceyB.
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I'm going to have to defer to the software creators on these types of questions. But if you always want the TB to be "TBWhite", then a global search and replace in your text editor should make that easy. If you want to pick different colors for different games, then there's really no way around some of the more tedious manual work of setting them individually.
If the TB is lighting up for a game which is not specifically listed in the color.ini, I can only assume that there is a default color set someplace, which is used when the software sees that it is a trackball game. I'd imagine that the fix for this is to create an entry in color.ini for that game, with the color you want to override it with.
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Thanks for your help Randy.
I have fixed most of my issues with trial and error.
I'm still no closer to why some of the games show up with the trackball as PINK (RGB white).
When it is not mapped in colors.ini
It's obviously it grabbing it from somewhere, I just has to find it ....I guess.
I'l keep working on it.
BTW ... all the gear I purchased worked perfect without a hitch. Not one issue at all with the gear. My issue is all software based.
Thanks heaps and catch you around!