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richmbailey
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« on: October 01, 2015, 07:44:47 PM »

Does the new board have any type of blade flickering FX?

I didn't see anything mentioned on the video or web site.

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« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2015, 08:08:12 PM »

You mean some kind of extending and retreating effects? What I know, the v4 does not have such effects. It would be quite difficult to achieve a realistic effect with the current Ultrasabers LED setup, you would need some kind of either LED strips inside the blade or a shutter mechanism that opens and closes, letting the light pass gradually and not at once.
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« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2015, 06:56:40 AM »

There isn't any such option on Obsidian v4. I think it would be nice to have a fade in/out option, where the intensity of the lights increases/decreases respectively when activating/deactivating. I've seen some sabers that do it, but I think it was either a custom job or else manufactured by the "other guys." As for this being on Obsidian, which deals primarily with sound, I don't see that as a practical addition. Now for Emerald, that would be something else entirely. Emerald v2 with an activation intensity setting? I would like that.

One other idea that I had to sort of fake it is to work with the blade flicker on Emerald. Have the first color transition start as completely black, then take a few seconds to fade it to your blade color. Set the hold time on that blade color for a long period of time; 2-3 minutes, you know. You'll certainly have a clash to reset that second blade color and start the time over. With this, you would at least get a fade in. Not a fade out, but a fade in, which is better than nothing I suppose.
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« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2015, 12:01:14 PM »

There isn't any such option on Obsidian v4. I think it would be nice to have a fade in/out option, where the intensity of the lights increases/decreases respectively when activating/deactivating. I've seen some sabers that do it, but I think it was either a custom job or else manufactured by the "other guys." As for this being on Obsidian, which deals primarily with sound, I don't see that as a practical addition. Now for Emerald, that would be something else entirely. Emerald v2 with an activation intensity setting? I would like that.

One other idea that I had to sort of fake it is to work with the blade flicker on Emerald. Have the first color transition start as completely black, then take a few seconds to fade it to your blade color. Set the hold time on that blade color for a long period of time; 2-3 minutes, you know. You'll certainly have a clash to reset that second blade color and start the time over. With this, you would at least get a fade in. Not a fade out, but a fade in, which is better than nothing I suppose.

I have a couple of hilts with non-Obsidian soundboards and those soundboards have a shimmer setting you can configure. It adjusts the amount of juice to the LED creating the flickering effect. I was just wondering if the new O.v4 has a similar feature. I assume it does not since it was not mentioned in the video or on the site. Both of my hilts are using a standard LUX LED.
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