Looking for an Obi Wan Kenobi Blade Style

ProffieOS Blade Styles
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Hey Community,

I have recently bought my very first Saber, I never planned on getting a Proffie Core, but it just happened to be one in the end.

I have bought a Combat Saber Model Obi-Wan EP1 and have a matching “costume” from Obi Wan to attend some Conventions, just for fun :slight_smile:

Now I am looking for the right Blade Style, does anyone happen to have ready made blade styles from Obi Wan EP1 Phantom Menace, or even up to EP3. I am looking for that roto flickering blue blade look to mess around a little bit.

I tried to create one with the help of AI, but in the style editor it’s completely not working.

My Proffieboard is running a OS7.x don’t remember exactly which one it was.

Any help appreciated, I will mess around with fetts library, which I just discovered, but the roto blades and the vast amount of options are a little bit overwhelming for me.

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You’re probably going to want a Rotoscope style from my library, there are several including Prequel versions. Just choose one of the Prequel options in the dropdown, choose a blue Base Color to your liking and click Get Style Code, the library defaults all other options to standard lightsaber effects, but you can obviously customize if you want.

https://www.fett263.com/fett263-proffieOS7-style-library.html#Rotoscope

From there, use this page and go step-by-step if you’re new to uploading.

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Thanks Fett, in the meantime I have done a Rotoscope Style with your Library, in the beginning I just didn’t understand a lot of the options there are to choose from. But I managed to set up a blade style to my liking.

Yesterday I was fiddling around with your Instructions page, and finally got my saber connected and Arduino even shows the COM Port, etc.

I was just not ready to hit “upload” because I didn’t fully understand the config file which was supposed to be compiled already on my saber. After messing around for quite some time I think I found the initial config file, since my saber comes with 32 fonts and a battery font preinstalled, i didn’t want to lose anything, because of lack of knowledge.

The one thing i completely don’t understand, and is the last step hindering me to upload my new freshly created blade style is this:

I downloaded the new ProffieOS 8.10, and created a full config from your library. If I merge the style with the config file from my SD Card, put a new folder for the balde style with an existing font, so I just take some existing sounds to not mess around too much, have the config defined in the ProffieOS.ino and the config put into the respective folder. I will “update” the Proffieboard to the OS 8.10 right? Since there are some older fonts and configs on the SD Card, am I running into any problems? If so, would there be a necessity to “downgrade” if anything happens to the compile for OS 8.10. Since I don’t really know the current version, and diagnostics are clearly disabled in the config file, I don’t want to mess up the fonts I have right now.

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If you want to know your current OS version connect your saber to your computer. Go to Arduino > Tools > Serial Monitor and type ‘version’. Then you’ll know the current version.

From there as long as you keep a backup of your original config you can always revert.

I would then go step-by-step on the updating instructions page above and be sure you read through everything for how to update and what that entails. It will cover the rest.

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If you want to backup everything:

  1. copy the content of your SD-card to your computer
  2. you also want to backup ProffieOS (including loaded config) installed in your Proffieboard:
    ProffieOS Documentation: How to back up a Proffieboard
    This backup of your Proffieboard can’t be edited or viewed to see what is inside but allows to return your saber to “factory default”.
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Exactly this didn’t do anything, the Core was showing the battery voltage all the time, but whatever I typed in, it just didn’t trigger any answer and went back to showing the voltage after some time.

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Thx olivier!

  1. already done
  1. that was exactly what i was looking for, will check it out if I understand everything later :slight_smile:
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Are you connecting to the port that’s on the Proffieboard or a charging port? Make sure you have a data cable and not just a charging cable.

In Arduino Tools > Port make sure you choose your Proffieboard before going into Serial Monitor.

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It doesn’t matter, either works.

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“This is just the beginning…”

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I’ve just uploaded the blade style and some sound fonts with which I am comfortable.

But when I start a track with double click and the saber being off, the female voice pack says “blue”

I completely don’t understand where this comes from, the tracks are playing just fine.

Edit: I’ve just realised, when pointing down or parallel and double click it says blue and plays the track, if pointing up and double click, it doesn’t say blue.

I am using the ProffieConfig Software and updated to v7.15. Maybe it is somehow related to this?

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I assume you have a single button (both because you mentioned a “core” which I assume to be of the Chinese variety that has a single button, and because there’s no double click control for two-button :laughing:)

For single-button, double clicking while pointing down will enter the track player, which is different from just normally playing the track. (Pointing up plays the track w/o the track player, which is why you hear no voice)

When entering the track player, sounds(? I’m not sure what though, Fett’s notes don’t seem super clear on this) are played. You can disable them with FETT263_TRACK_PLAYER_NO_PROMPTS (“Disable Track Player Prompts” in ProffieConfig), but that might make things harder to navigate… again it’s not clear what all that disables.

I’ll let him explain what the actual prompts are :slight_smile:

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It’s probably saying “Loop”, this is a Track Player control in my prop.

See Controls here:

More info on Track Player here:

You can disable spoken Track Player controls with

#define FETT263_TRACK_PLAYER_NO_PROMPTS
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Wow, the brain stopped working, now when I turn it on, I hear Loop and not Blue anymore. :sweat_smile:

Thanks, since I only use two quotes for the convention, I am happy without the track player prompts!

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Thanks that’s exactly what I didn’t understand, since I heard it for the first time and still experiment with all the features to come, but the convention is nearing and I don’t have anymore time to fiddle around, will stick to a nice Obi Wan EP1 Roto style and even got some sweet sound fonts which I mixed together from my personal liking!

I have the KR x PO Core, the sound is so crisp and a lot of bass, really love it, didn’t think I would be liking it so much :slight_smile:

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