Muff's Modules & More

dougcl · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:35 pm Post subject:

Hi guys, the rack images and xml files are linked from this page:

http://squiggletronics.com/files/RackPlannerModules/index.php

We have more formats supported in the library than there are rack xml files and rack images.

When I want a rack image, I just take a the smallest module in the format, and get a jpg of it. Edit the jpg so that it is all black or gray, and has the original holes only. Now use MS Paint or similar to copy and paste the module out as many times as needed to create the rack width you want. I usually put a light vertical line at the rightmost edge as an indicator of the rack width. Save that, and that's your rack image smile

BananaPlug · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:54 pm Post subject:

I could have the site generate the rack images and xml files in software so that you could pick a format and pick how many rows and columns you want. I think they should be proportional to actual sizes of the different formats. Any suggestions for default scale or anything?

dougcl · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:00 pm Post subject:

Probably best to use whatever scale is most likely to be submitted as modules. If the rack is too small, the module images will always be scaled down to fit, and the results so far have not been great on image reduction.

Kent · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:11 am Post subject:

Hey, Doug. I'm wondering how a fellow could lay out a Euro Planner and also a Frac Planner. I'm an XML Knucklehead. How does this work? Can you walk me through it? Holding my hand and all?

qu.one · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:48 am Post subject:

i think there already is a Frac option… and modules.

Kent · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:07 am Post subject:

I've got the Frac Modules installed where my Euro Modules are and they come out smashed up. Just a couple of millimeters wide. I've moved them to their own folder and then they all come out as 1 module wide in size and blanked out in grey.

BananaPlug · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:01 am Post subject:

Try looking here. There's some general explanation and links to the readme file and to folders where you can find rack images and XML files for the different formats.

qu.one · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:05 am Post subject:

it all dependent on the rack, the HP settings etc. you would need to make sure the background is a Frack Rack. see below for some basic settings:

dougcl · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:28 am Post subject:

You would have to modify the HP property in the XML of each frac module to estimate the frac module width in terms of euro HP.

For example, frac HP of one is something like 8 or 10 HP of euro.

You can either open each module zip, edit the module.xml, or I suppose you could go to banana plug's module maker with your frac module images, and just make them all again as euro modules (don't save them to the library!)

Doug

dougcl · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 11:02 pm Post subject:

Hi folks, I just released an update to RackPlanner. We are now on version 1.1

Image quality on scaling has been fixed.

Right click and save this over your existing RackPlanner.jar file: RackPlanner.jar

dougcl · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 12:50 am Post subject:

Here's an example of the new scaled image quality.

dougcl · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:41 pm Post subject:

Hi folks, 1.2 is now available. SaveAs JPG now works with any directory.

If you haven't upgraded in a while, the latest version is much improved. Just copy RackPlanner.jar over your existing one.

KNYST · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:18 pm Post subject:

dslocum · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:34 pm Post subject:

I started playing with RackPlanner about a month ago so I'm a newb, but couldn't find any MU / DOTCOM rack XMLs for studio or portable cabs. Am I missing something?

dougcl · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:52 pm Post subject:

BananaPlug · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:22 pm Post subject:

dougcl · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:27 pm Post subject:

OMG

Looks awesome. Maybe create a separate thread for this.

Petur · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:07 pm Post subject:

Does anyone have a link to the complete zip of euro modules from http://squiggletronics.com/files/RackPlannerModules/browse.php ?

The link at the top (to the zip containing all modules) seems to be broken and i'd prefer to not download each module one by one.

BananaPlug · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:15 pm Post subject:

Yikes. Sorry about that. I didn't know it was broken.

It's fixed now! 23.47MB of euro zips could take awhile.

Euro's gotten so big. Maybe we need some other way to pick modules for downloading.

Petur · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:18 pm Post subject: