RSX Engineering Ultra Sabers Diamond User Manual Download Page 2

Page: 2 / 48

1. Overview

…………………………………………….

2. Getting started

……………………………………..

Power On!

…………………………………………………………………………………..

Basic moves

……………………………………………………………………………….

Gestures

…………………………………………………………………………………….

3. Diamond control

…………………………………...

Adjusting the volume

…………………………………………………………………….

Changing fonts

……………………………………………………………………………

Learning gestures

………………………………………………………………………..

4. The Launcher

…………………………………........

Installing and connecting

………………………………………………………………

Main settings

………………………………………………………………………………

Board configuration

……………………………………………………………………...

The express font wizard

………………………………………………………………..

The advanced font wizard

……………………………………………………………..

The effect editor

…………………………………………………………………………..

Updates

……………………………………………………………………………………..

5. Technicalities

…………………………………........

Wiring

………………………………………………………………………………………..

Specifications

……………………………………………………………………………..

6. Troubleshooting

…………………………………...

Common issues

…………………………………………………………………………..

Running a diagnose

……………………………………………………………………..

Restoring factory defaults

……………………………………………………………...

Reporting errors

…………………………………………………………………………..

CONTENT

Click on any title to jump to the corresponding section!

Summary of Contents for Ultra Sabers Diamond

Page 1: ...P a g e 1 www ultrasabers com DIAMOND CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Rev 1 2 2017 12 29 By RSX Engineering...

Page 2: ...lling and connecting 11 Main settings 13 Board configuration 14 The express font wizard 17 The advanced font wizard 21 The effect editor 27 Updates 35 5 Technicalities 37 Wiring 37 Specifications 40 6...

Page 3: ...to drive a single Red Green Blue White LED and 4 accent channels which drive independent low power LEDs for accessories such as an illuminated switch or a crystal chamber Any accent channel can be use...

Page 4: ...oves or gestures see following paragraphs while 4 of them are static When you power on your saber by connecting the batteries or removing the kill switch you ll hear a sound and see the blade changing...

Page 5: ...riggered by a swing motion of the saber in any direction IMPACT The Impact Clash effect is triggered every time the blade encounters a rigid object e g hits another blade in combat SPIN The Spin effec...

Page 6: ...one on the Diamond Controller tab of the Ultrasabers Launcher software See chapter 4 for details FORCE The Force effect is triggered by rotating the saber from your wrist continuously clockwise and co...

Page 7: ...re really skilled even in combat Each font can hold up to 5 gestures You can have the same gestures on all fonts or you can have different ones on each font so your saber can recognize up to 80 distin...

Page 8: ...cond while keeping the switch pressed The easiest way to do this is by hitting the blade or the hilt with your hand Release the switch The saber will turn off the lights pause for half a second then p...

Page 9: ...without triggering an opposite command You can adjust the detection sensitivity for the menu rotations using the Ultrasabers Launcher software See chapter 4 for details 1 Initiate Execute a STAB motio...

Page 10: ...ff the light and enter the gesture learning mode 2 Select Rotating the saber clockwise and counter clockwise will cycle trough gestures 1 to 5 and for each one you ll be informed if is an empty slot o...

Page 11: ...s too short the motion too slow or there s a problem with the internal memory If there s no confirmation message the gesture was not recorded If you change your mind and wish to cancel learning the ge...

Page 12: ...into the operating system First uninstall any previous version of the Ultrasabers Launcher if any then run the installer and follow the steps on the screen Under Windows you ll need to run the instal...

Page 13: ...therefore recommended not to close the Launcher unless you finished working with it if you want to test your saber disconnect it but leave the Launcher running to avoid long waiting times Once the con...

Page 14: ...Save all the settings in a file or load all the settings from a file All the main settings apply in real time there s no need to press any Write button The little speaker on the left of the green vol...

Page 15: ...tate of your batteries See chapter 5 for details on LED wiring The LED configuration used by your saber has to be programmed on the board before wiring the LEDs Please be very careful if the board con...

Page 16: ...hannels to drive high power LEDs You can find details about wiring with Onyx in chapter 5 If any accent channel is wired to an Onyx board instead of a low power LED you should check the corresponding...

Page 17: ...even if your board is connected to the Launcher so you can prevent working with discharged batteries You can save the board configuration on your computer in a dcfg file using the Save to file button...

Page 18: ...re You can switch between express and advanced wizard any time if you re in the express wizard press the Advanced wizard button and when you re in the advanced wizard press the Express wizard button T...

Page 19: ...that you select at this step determines the sounds that your saber will play with this font 3 Select colors The color of each effect can be customized using the diamond shaped control of the express...

Page 20: ...y re linked The color preview on the computer is not 100 accurate Unlike computer screens the LEDs used in sabers have unbalanced intensities on their color channels so they mix in a different ratio o...

Page 21: ...When you select a font slot that does NOT hold and express font the effect buttons will initially appear disabled this is designed to prevent confusion between express and advanced fonts With a single...

Page 22: ...s a single file A pfnt file stores everything that defines a font sounds light effects and gestures On the first page of the wizard Font Selection you ll find the Load button and on the last page Writ...

Page 23: ...d with Clear Font you can erase an entire font from the Diamond Controller s internal memory When you select another font from this list the wizard will update its content from the board Whatever chan...

Page 24: ...ect you will remove it from the font If you accidentally cleared an effect but did not write yet the font to the board you can do the following go to the Font Selection page select another font and th...

Page 25: ...an manage gestures adjust sensitivity rename load from computer save to computer or delete from font Gestures can be saved on your computer as dgst files so you can reuse them on another font or even...

Page 26: ...ry but it will not be detected anymore If you change the enabled state you have to write the gesture or the entire font to the board in order to have effect Write font The last page of the font wizard...

Page 27: ...ultiple fonts with the same name on the board so please make sure you assigned an appropriate name Save the font on your computer before writing it to the board If something goes wrong you don t want...

Page 28: ...the editor standalone or on an effect The effect editor starts standalone from the Diamond Controller tab of the Launcher It will start with a blank effect You don t even have to be connected to the s...

Page 29: ...op of the effect editor window there s a control bar which allows you to among other things clear load from computer save to computer and rename the current effect Effects are saved in peff files whic...

Page 30: ...then write the entire font at once For such a situation if you start the editor on an effect you can use the Apply to font button it will save the effect in the font you re editing so you don t have...

Page 31: ...etails so here are some tips When editing a light sequence you can use the undo redo buttons or the key combinations Ctrl Z Cmd Z on MAC Ctrl Y Cmd Shift Z on MAC to undo or redo the last operation Th...

Page 32: ...ds a point at the cursor location For the Power LED the point will be added on the selected light sequence Adds a point at the location specified by time and intensity values For the Power LED the poi...

Page 33: ...White then when a swing is detected it will leave red and blue pulsing the Idle effect and add only the White with whatever sequence you defined there What you ll see is the blade keep pulsing between...

Page 34: ...requires a single sound the font wizard will show you a warning For each sound that you re adding to the effect a sound box will be added to the effect editor showing you the waveform of the sound an...

Page 35: ...first normalized meaning their volume is brought to the maximum possible without introducing distortions This helps prevent a lot of issues with sounds coming from various sources having different vo...

Page 36: ...re Software update By software we mean the Ultrasabers Launcher Whenever we release a new version we upload it online and you ll be automatically notified when starting the program You will have to cl...

Page 37: ...e sure you see the red message Make sure your batteries are sufficiently charged If they fail during the firmware update process your board might be permanently lost The update takes less than 30 seco...

Page 38: ...autions should be observed That s electrostatic discharge a phenomenon by which the static electricity accumulated into your body and clothing can discharge on the board with destructive effects If yo...

Page 39: ...er The red wire could go to Speaker and the black one to Speaker but that s really not important mono speakers are oblivious to polarity so it makes no difference Keep the speaker wires as short as po...

Page 40: ...regulator you can check the Resources page of the Ultrasabers Launcher software Wiring with Onyx is straightforward each Accent pin of the Diamond Controller goes to the control input of an Onyx boar...

Page 41: ...ence repetitions 1 100 Sounds per effect 1 for Tag Power On Power Off Idle Force Lockup and gestures Maximum 15 for Swing Impact Spin and Stab Number of gestures Maximum 5 font Gesture duration Maximu...

Page 42: ...ntact Ultrasabers customer support When I power the saber nothing happens Make sure the batteries are charged If they are there is a hardware problem either with the wiring or with the board itself Ch...

Page 43: ...er Application Diamond driver Run the executable appropriate for your processor If you encounter this issue on Windows 10 or MAC there s a problem with your operating system It should have the Virtual...

Page 44: ...partial or no functionality at all Whenever there s an initialization error reported you should run the diagnose tool in order to investigate the problem Connect your saber to the computer run the Ul...

Page 45: ...tteries When the diagnose is complete it will open a text report detailing the results of the checks This is a human readable report and contains suggestions on how to fix the problems found Try follo...

Page 46: ...ferences so restoring factory defaults will lose that customization The recommended procedure when restoring factory defaults is the following 1 Make sure that the batteries are fully charged Restorin...

Page 47: ...our problem is related to the communication of the Diamond Controller with the Ultrasabers Launcher software the log files Those can be found at home UltraSabers_Launcher logs on Windows systems and a...

Page 48: ...Controller and Ultrasabers Launcher are developed and manufactured by RSX Engineering exclusively for Ultrasabers RSX Engineering LLC 11th Apateu St Timisoara 300543 Romania 40 771 279 017 ultrasabers...

Search results

Summary of Contents for Ultra Sabers Diamond

Reviews:

Related manuals for Ultra Sabers Diamond

Brands by name

Popular brands

RSX Engineering Ultra Sabers Diamond, User Manual

Search results

Summary of Contents for Ultra Sabers Diamond

Reviews:

Related manuals for Ultra Sabers Diamond

Brands by name

Popular brands