One of the files we aren’t suppose to overlay are we as it erases previous addressable led animations by randr and co correct?
You are talking about the directoutputconfig30.ini file. I know we were using the same file for a long time to keep some specific table configs that we liked.
When the database was built up for addressable leds by Arngrim (who created DOF Config Tool), they were built with both randr and gechs configs. Arngrim doesn’t have addressable leds, so he can’t test them. Some of the tables that randr had configured way back may have been overwritten by gech config for the same tables, or the other way around…. who knows…
By updating with the newest configs from DOF Config Tool, you won’t loose all of those effects for every table, but “some” of them won’t be the same as they were…
What I have been doing is copying those configs from the older directoutputconfig30.ini file (just for tables that used to have nicer effects) and applying them to my own custom config for that table. It’s a little hard to understand at first what is what, but I eventually figure it out.
So to sum up…. I have my setup configured for the new proper way to setup your “ports” for Teensy now on DOF Config Tool (so you can set it up to however you defined your ports in the cabinet.xml file now). I update to the newest table configs (and now use those new *.ini files), and if I see a table not giving the same effects as I remember from way back, I copy them (from the older directoutputconfig30.ini) over to my custom config for that table in DOF Config Tool. So now I can always get the newest updates and still get the effects I want.
Also, the new version of DOF Config Tool will allow you to automatically “Create a Basic Matrix Config” for ANY table. So that will take any flasher or strobes effects (from real DOF flashers and strobes) and convert them into Led Matrix (MX) commands. This basically means that you can get 5 flasher and strobe effects for a table with no MX commands, and with your own specified “default” shape for the flashers. The only thing this doesn’t do automatically yet are beacon effects.
Just keep those older config files for the long run, and slowly copy over the table configs you prefer.
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