Must click 'Render All' to see any changes in Xlights

Hi,

I am hoping someone can help because I am losing my mind creating this last sequence.

I don't know if I've accidentally clicked something to cause this... But long story short, every time I make a change when building a sequence in Xlights - for me to see the effect in the Model Preview or House Preview, I need to click the 'Render All' button. This could be every time I add a new effect, or make a change with an existing effect etc.

It is driving me nuts because I can't see changes in real-time. I'm progressing through the sequence having to make a change, click render all - don't like it? - make a change - render all again. The sequence is quite long - 15 min or so - so I can't tell if its a processing issue because the sequence is too large now or what.

Anyone else experience this?

- Dan

Down the bottom left of the sequence window is the Suspend Render checkbox filled in?

If there are any long running effects at the point in the timeline,it may need to re-render all of these effects. This is because of the flow on bits that are needed to figure out which pixels are on.
The longer the effects, and more models/bigger groups, the longer it takes.
You can tell it's "working" with the little grey bar under the xLights icon (windows 11) or green fill (windows 10).

Nojoy said:

Down the bottom left of the sequence window is the Suspend Render checkbox filled in?

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I KNEW IT WAS SOMETHING STUPID. I could kiss you. Thank you.

haha, we've all been there mate. Glad I could help. Best of luck putting the finishing touches on!