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xLights 4 is free and open source sequencing and scheduluing software for designing, creating and playing amazing lighting displays with DMX & E1.31 controllers and more.
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Custom models
xLights 4 (Nutcracker)
- Released
- Yes
- Price
- Free
- Website
- https://xlights.org/
Latest Release
- Stable Version
- 2021.25 64-bit (Windows) download
Protocols Supported
- E1.31
- ArtNet
- DMX512
- LightORama
- X-10
- Renard
Supported Formats
- xLights sequence (*.xml), Light-O-Rama (*.lms, *.las), Vixen 2 (*.vix), Falcon Player (*.fseq), Lynx Conductor (*.seq), Glediator (*.gled), *.xmodel, *.xtiming, *.xpreset
xLights 4 is free and open source sequencing and scheduluing software for designing, creating and playing amazing lighting displays with DMX & E1.31 controllers and more.
Nutcracker Background
Nutcracker began as a separate a free tool that will allow the easy creation of animations for RGB devices. Developed by Sean Meighan and added to xLights 3 by Matt Brown in December 2012. xLights 4 led by Sean Meighan is now developed by a team of volunteers .xSchedule
Added to xLights in 2017, xSchedule is a separate application for scheduling and running your xLights show from a PC and for making channel alterations e.g. RGB colour order swaps, dimming, just to name a couple.2016 xSchedule Webinars
2016 xLights 4 Webinars
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqFeOe0hNB8
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6e7rDEcSvI
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri0ZOIhpZ9U
View all webinar videos
More Tutorials
- https://auschristmaslighting.com/media/categories/xlights-videos.5/ xLights tutorial and how-to videos
- http://www.nutcracker123.com/wk/index.php?title=Tutorials Nutcracker Wiki Tutorial links
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16kSOAqdkcq9zrJIwKkZ5adkoq1QWn2N xLights (Ver 4 or 2016) Video Tutorial Series by ryancook83
Useful Links
- https://xlights.org/releases/ xLights releases
- https://manual.xlights.org/xlights/ xLights user manual
- http://nutcracker123.com/forum/ xLights Nutcracker forum
- http://nutcracker123.com/wk/ xLights Nutcracker wiki
- http://nutcracker123.com/wk/index.php?title=Tutorials xLights Nutcracker tutorials
- https://videos.xlights.org/ A collection of even more xLights YouTube videos
Shared Resources
Sequences (Free)- https://auschristmaslighting.com/threads/xlights-sharing-sequences.10708/
- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2ozCEidtWh3b1JWSlA0SldWTVk?fref=gc&dti=628061113896314
- For paid sequences, see Supplier Links (Sequences)
Custom models
- https://auschristmaslighting.com/wiki/xLights-custom-models
- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2ozCEidtWh3MUVzX0ZMc1pzY00?fref=gc&dti=628061113896314
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