The PRIZM Sound Board User's Manual
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Trident™ - Cross-guard support
Based on Episode 7 of the saga, the board supports cross-guard sabers, providing the
proper delayed ignition of the quillons blades with a large amount of configurability.
Based on our Flash on Clash engine, Trident defines which color channels will be
delayed using the
tridentm
(ix) parameter.
The Trident engine allows to define both an ignition delay and/or a retraction delay for
the secondary blades (
tridenton
,
tridentoff
) in a similar way to quick on and quick
off. It also offers 2 delay modes referred as simple delay and shifted delay, which will
be detailed below.
Finally, the basic Trident allows to use the board with no other accessory to create a
single color + Flash on clash saber with delayed quillons, or a color changing saber
with color mixing AND matching color changing quillons using a small add-on board
called TridentRGB.
Defining the quillons channels
Depending on the kind of saber you'll be building with this feature (single color vs
color mixing), the definition of the delayed color channels is slightly different but the
idea remains the same : some channels will be turned on with a delay.
The delayed channels are defined using the
tridentm
parameter. For example,
setting
tridentm=0110
will delay color channels 2 and 3. This is a standard way to
obtained 2 delayed quillon blades, each of them having their LED controlled by a
specific channel.
This example uses channels 2 and 3 specifically, taking advantage of the onboard
Power Extenders which can there drive efficiently the 2 mini blades, which require less
current. A Color Extender can be used as well.
Channel 4 would be the Flash on Clash channel, driving 1 or 2 Power extenders to
control the FoC effect on both the main and secondary blades.
Trident Modes
The 2 modes are really similar but as the Devil is in the details, I have provided the 2
options.
Mode 0 - Simple Delay
Enabled with tridentfx=0, this mode starts the non delayed channel(s) normally. Once
the delay defined by
tridenton
has expired, the delayed channel(s) will start ramping
up too. Both channels will catch up at the same time at the end of the power on
sound.
Mode 1 - Shifted Delay
Enabled with tridentfx=1, this mode starts the non delayed channel(s) at the
beginning of the power on sound, with an ignition end point set at the delay defined
by
tridenton
(this is similar to defining a quick ignition using the quick-on parameter
