Strange Chroma issues

[ruvaldak]

I'm not really sure how to properly explain this. Baldur's Gate 3 supports Chroma devices, which is the game I've been using to test this. There seems to be some issues with the effects being applied properly across all LEDs

Idk, maybe I'm wrong, but based on how my wife's PC (she uses Razer Synapse) looks while playing... seems like this plugin on Artemis with OpenRGB providing the devices has some issues applying the proper effects.

Anyways, here's a video demonstrating it. Clearly can tell it doesn't look right.

2023-08-28_04-24-06.mp4

[diogotr7]

This is mostly due to Razer's recommendations for Chroma Link (in Artemis this means anything not mapped to a key will default to Chroma Link colors): https://developer.razer.com/works-with-chroma/chroma-link-guide/

I chose to map the remaining 4 LEDs on chroma link to commonly used led-strip LEDs, but the reason it looks so strange is that if you have a strip with 20 LEDs, the first 5 will animate, while the following 15 will be static. I'm not 100% sure how Razer handles this though so I'm not 100% sure on how to fix it. There might be a video somewhere with "official" Razer lighting I can reference, I'll take a look...

[diogotr7]

On a side note - how was the first-user experience? I'm never sure how easy it is for new users to get setup with the instlalation of the chroma service and etc. I recently rewrote the entire chroma reader to be much more efficient on system resources which also seems to be working great!

[ruvaldak]

I chose to map the remaining 4 LEDs on chroma link to commonly used led-strip LEDs, but the reason it looks so strange is that if you have a strip with 20 LEDs, the first 5 will animate, while the following 15 will be static. I'm not 100% sure how Razer handles this though so I'm not 100% sure on how to fix it.

On my wife's computer, the RGB strip effects seem to repeat themselves along the entire. Fans have a sort of snake effect.

The keyboard effects are strange as well. They do have their keys properly labeled, and sometimes work fine (in dialogue, the dialogue options' corresponding number keys are lit yellow), but the loading animation, as you can see, looks very bizarre.

I'll get a video of my wife's computer later today.

[ruvaldak]

In terms of my first user experience, it took a bit to figure out. I don't believe it's the fault of this though. It worked right out of the gate once I had it set up properly in Artemis. Artemis is just confusing to work with at first, not as straight forward as it could be.

[diogotr7]

I don't expect any issues with the keyboard. It seems to me like it's just a loading bar going across from left to right, is that correct? What looks "bizarre"?

A video would help, thank you. This "snake" effect sounds a bit complicated to implement, but I'll see what I can do.

[ruvaldak]

I don't expect any issues with the keyboard. It seems to me like it's just a loading bar going across from left to right, is that correct? What looks "bizarre"?

A video would help, thank you. This "snake" effect sounds a bit complicated to implement, but I'll see what I can do.

I guess it could be a loading bar, if it were a full sized keyboard. Don't have a razer keyboard to test with, though.

I'll get a video made about 5 hours from now, when my wife gets home from work.

Edit: yeah, it does look like a loading bar that is assuming I'm using a full sized keyboard. Seems to match just about, if it were cropped to my 75% keyboard. The fn key (second key to the right of the spacebar) is flashing, though - QMK Keycode MO(2). The menu key (far right, bottom key) is lit when it shouldn't be. Seems to not have any awareness of the layout of the keyboard?

[ruvaldak]

How the effects should look (within reason - ram and motherboard are treated as a single led)

PXL_20230828_224121378.2-compress.mp4

[ruvaldak]

Any progress on this?

[diogotr7]

I have some very early experimentations in that commit if you want to try, but I'm not 100% happy with it yet :)

[diogotr7]

First one had a mistake, fixed in the second one

[ruvaldak]

trying it out, seems to work great. I'll report any issues here as I come across them.