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January 10th, 2011 09:00
AlienFX Theme Sharing
If you take the time, you can build some pretty impressive lighting schemes. I have a few I have built and, provided it's permitted, I don't mind sharing them with other users here. My question is whether anyone else would be happy to share their schemes?
If Chris is in agreement and the concept of theme sharing is popular, we could have a sticky post with themes available for download.
If you are not sure where your themes are stored, you will find them in C:\Users\User Name\Documents\AlienFX\Themes
May I suggest you give a short description of what we can expect from each theme proposed. If you have a video camera, a clip upped on YouTube would be a neat touch!
I will start the ball rolling with my current favourite. 1, 2, 8, 9, and 10 are all red only. 7 has a French flag effect (red, white, and blue). The keyboard changes constantly and almost appears to never be the same. This was achieved with several color changes interlaced and having separate time lines. In the dark it looks seriously impressive.
Download HERE
Note I'm a beginner at this so I bow to the more experienced amongst you who have managed to build works of art.
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Posted January 11th, 2011 01:00
Chris, mine's an M17x. Would my themes also be suitable for the M11x and M15x? I would have thought they all share the same controller software.
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Posted January 11th, 2011 15:00
AFX themes are platform specific and can only be shared with like systems. So if you tried to load one from a M17x to a M15x, an error message that the theme is not compatible with the system will appear and you will not be able to apply the theme.
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Posted January 12th, 2011 02:00
Thanks for the clarification Chris. It looks as though my sharing FX idea is as popular as a cockroach in the kitchen!
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Posted January 17th, 2011 07:00
On another forum I found they were actively swapping AlienFX themes for each model. Of course I downloaded a few for the M17x. Most of them were absolute rubbish because users either used plain colours rather than exploring the possibilities of morphing, or they had a preconceived idea that morph timelines should be exactly the same length for all sectors of the keyboard. As a reasonably experienced Flash designer I can tell you that you can get some amazing effects by purposely using different timelines for each zone because that way they overlap. What I mean is that while one timeline has completed and is restarting, another timeline has yet to complete. And don't be afraid to edit the tempo!
What did get me, and I'm hoping Chris may be able to help me here, is that the majority of themes I downloaded seem to have been created with the M17x R1 because their zones were numbered differently. Even so, they do work on the R2. But, what I can't understand is how they achieved colour change from left to right on the front speaker vents? Even attempting to edit their themes brings me no closer to an answer. I'm beginning to think that the command center of the R1 was possibly more advanced than that of the R2. Here's some examples for R2 owners to see what I'm talking about (password is M17x).
Not only do they have left to right speaker morphing but they can also morph the touchpad, start button, Alienhead logo, and dashboard. And if that isn't already enough, they seem to have been able to add and remove zones too!
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Posted January 18th, 2011 15:00
I do not know. I can tell you that engineering will not test this. They already more or less said no to using different model themes.
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Posted January 19th, 2011 02:00
Do you not have access to an M17x R1?
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Posted January 19th, 2011 06:00
Nope.
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Posted January 19th, 2011 21:00
Here's mine for the m17x, the keyboard sweeps from right to left, managed to make it work with all colors (i think). The numpad alternates between solid white to blinking red every 3 blocks of solid white.
Speakers and main logo morphs all colors.
http://d01.megashares.com/index.php?d01=a6fba45
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Posted January 20th, 2011 03:00
That's quite daring SilverLeaf!
I wish I could get the left to right speaker morphing that others seem to have achieved. Yours has given me some inspiration if I could alternate pulsing from left to right on the speaker vents. If you have not yet seen the left to right morphs on the speakers, try this one.
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Posted January 10th, 2011 17:00
All,
Checking on this...
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