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== xLights with Nutcracker ==

'''<u>A Little History'''</u><br><br>
xLights was written in 2010 by Matt Brown to create a stable scheduler for his Vixen sequences. LSP, 
LOR and Vixen users have used xLights to be able to get a full featured, stable scheduler. The 
scheduler has very little lag and can handle shows with 10's of thousands of channels.<br><br>
Here is how xLights works today:<br><br>
a) Setup the hardware you will be using. USB, E1.31 and other hardware are all supported<br>
b) Convert your existing sequences into xLights. The CONVERT tab can read LOR lms or Vixen vix 
files and create a new xseq xLights file.<br>
c) Use the scheduler to play the xseq files in your show.<br><br>
Note how xLights uses its internal files, xseq, whenever it is playing sequences.<br>
Nutcracker was written by Sean Meighan in Feb 2012 to create massive RGB animations. The flow in 
Nutcracker is different.<br><br>
a) Create a target model. Megatree, Matrix .etc.<br>
b) Pick effects and modify them.<br>
c) Play the effects and see what they look like on animated gif preview<br>
d) Repeat b and c until sastisfied with the effect<br>
e) Export the effect for Vixen, LOR, LSP or HLS<br>
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For additional information, introduction to setup and use, video tutorials, or to download the latest version, navigate to [http://www.nutcracker123.com/nutcracker/releases/ http://www.nutcracker123.com/nutcracker/releases/]<br>

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