My Video Tutorial: Effects for the Diamond Saber

[Chiron]

Thanks for this, this clears things up. Great tutorial. 1 point for you.

[kooky]

This is very helpful. my diamond prophecy is arriving thursday ! point for you , thanks

[Dude]

I see some advantage of having the Diamond controller. Although I still prefer the Emerald driver if i had to choose.

[kooky]

I see some advantage of having the Diamond controller. Although I still prefer the Emerald driver if i had to choose.

Why though ? Surely being able to change blade colour without having to plug in the saber alone is worth it ?

[Jediseth]

I see some advantage of having the Diamond controller. Although I still prefer the Emerald driver if i had to choose.

If it comes to strictly changing colors and that's all your interested in I agree with you. The Emerald is so much easier for me.

[Zren Tobas]

I wanna see a Sith setting if possible sometime. Normal red to like a somewhat darker red pulse or flicker, that would look sick If it could be done anyway

[kooky]

If it comes to strictly changing colors and that's all your interested in I agree with you. The Emerald is so much easier for me.

surely the diamond is easier as you can change colours without having to plug it in?

[Jediseth]

surely the diamond is easier as you can change colours without having to plug it in?

No, You have to plug it in to change any of the effects. That includes light and sound.

[kooky]

No, You have to plug it in to change any of the effects. That includes light and sound.

yeah but out of the box you have 8 different blade colours at the turn of the saber. Ive heard programming pulses and things like that are difficult.

[Isola815]

yeah but out of the box you have 8 different blade colours at the turn of the saber. Ive heard programming pulses and things like that are difficult.

If they are set up exactly how you want them I will be quite surprised. As someone who owns two Diamond modules I can say for sure my next higher end saber from US will be Emerald. Diamond is just too time consuming the way the interface is set up right now. Until the interface is refined I see no good reason to pay the extra for Diamond just to swap colors on the fly. It's faster to plug an Emerald into a computer and just change the blade color over a thousand times than it is to initially make all the color/sound profiles for Diamond. And considering the price (especially second hand) of tiny little notebook computers you could install nothing but the launcher software on and can then take in your bag to a party/con/photoshoot or whatever... it's just easier to plug in an Emerald and change the color. UNLESS you honestly need to change colors and sounds every 10 minutes for some reason... but I can't think why you would?



Also +1 to karaoke freak for this thread. I'm not sure how I missed it for so long! Very helpful tutorial, thanks man

[kooky]

If they are set up exactly how you want them I will be quite surprised. As someone who owns two Diamond modules I can say for sure my next higher end saber from US will be Emerald. Diamond is just too time consuming the way the interface is set up right now. Until the interface is refined I see no good reason to pay the extra for Diamond just to swap colors on the fly. It's faster to plug an Emerald into a computer and just change the blade color over a thousand times than it is to initially make all the color/sound profiles for Diamond. And considering the price (especially second hand) of tiny little notebook computers you could install nothing but the launcher software on and can then take in your bag to a party/con/photoshoot or whatever... it's just easier to plug in an Emerald and change the color. UNLESS you honestly need to change colors and sounds every 10 minutes for some reason... but I can't think why you would?

Well for me its all about photography so having the colours change almost instantly is a huge advantage for me when light painting and doing photoshoots . And i just love the fact you can change them without having to plug it in , for me that will be much better . I completely understand that the diamond software right now is far from perfect . There has been quite a bit of feedback given to ultrasabers about it so I'm sure they will listen

[Isola815]

Well for me its all about photography so having the colours change almost instantly is a huge advantage for me when light painting and doing photoshoots . And i just love the fact you can change them without having to plug it in , for me that will be much better . I completely understand that the diamond software right now is far from perfect . There has been quite a bit of feedback given to ultrasabers about it so I'm sure they will listen

Same for me with ease for photography and that's why I'd still rather put a notebook in my camera bag if I wanted to change saber color part way through a shoot than spend the initial time setting them all up. Plus with having a computer on site you can tweak the color to actually work the way you need it to. The blade colors can change quite a lot just from firing a flash and the white balance doesn't always fix it without a bit of post editing. However this is probably a topic of conversation for another thread. But I am very much looking forward to seeing some pics from these shoots you speak of

[kooky]

Same for me with ease for photography and that's why I'd still rather put a notebook in my camera bag if I wanted to change saber color part way through a shoot than spend the initial time setting them all up. Plus with having a computer on site you can tweak the color to actually work the way you need it to. The blade colors can change quite a lot just from firing a flash and the white balance doesn't always fix it without a bit of post editing. However this is probably a topic of conversation for another thread. But I am very much looking forward to seeing some pics from these shoots you speak of

well seeing as the diamond board has green, blue ,artic blue, violet amethyst , blazing red , adgean silver and more straight out of the box I'm sure i won't need to tweak much for the time being Its arriving tomorrow so i will certainly be out shooting tomorrow night . hopefully will have pics very soon. Here is a link to some of my best work so far :https://1x.com/member/davidahernphotography/photos/all

[Isola815]

well seeing as the diamond board has green, blue ,artic blue, violet amethyst , blazing red , adgean silver and more straight out of the box I'm sure i won't need to tweak much for the time being Its arriving tomorrow so i will certainly be out shooting tomorrow night . hopefully will have pics very soon. Here is a link to some of my best work so far :https://1x.com/member/davidahernphotography/photos/all

Very nice! Looking forward to seeing the lightsaber photos

[kooky]

Very nice! Looking forward to seeing the lightsaber photos

thanks ! got it today . Its absolutely stunning ! finding it very hard to activate the font change menu though for some reason. Does not seem to recognise when i twist it twice