Hi:
I'm a bit confused as to how sheep actually work. I currently have it set to play each sheep 5 times. However, frequently what looks like five or six sheep I have seen before will appear in very quick succession with transitions. This does not seem to repeat five times.
A few questions about this...
1) are all transitions "hard-coded"? That is, does the client create these transitions on the fly, or does there have to be an actual sheep file of the transition?
2) do all sheep play the number of times you indicate in the set up, or just some?
3) If I vote no on a sheep in transition, what gets voted down? The transition? Is there any way to tell which sheep is actually being voted down (by number, maybe?)
Sorry if the answers to these questions are out there obvious some place. Just point me in the right direction.
Thanks
1) yes, they are files like
1) yes, they are files like all the sheep.
2) just the loops (ie the sheep themselves), not the edges (ie not the transitions). repeating only makes sense for a loop.
3) the server interprets a vote for an edge as being for either end randomly.
if downvoting isn't working, then make sure that in the advanced settings that "delete on downvote" is checked. and it's also possible that there are many edges going into and out of a sheep. if you downvote, only the file you are currently looking at is deleted, the parts of others that might look similar have to be downvoted on their own as well.
Thanks, that's very helpful.
Thanks, that's very helpful. Is an edge defined as a sheep that has different starting and ending sheep, or is there some other way you can tell from the file name it is an edge?
Also, is there a way to get the sheep id to display on the screen when the screen saver is executing?
F4 shows the current playback
F4 shows the current playback status (F1 is general help, listing all the commands).
Never mind, just found where
Never mind, just found where the difference between and edge and a loop was described on the Wiki.