Question about programming a special effect

achance4glory · August 20, 2025, 2:45am

Hey y’all,

I’ve been installing sabers on the side, mostly for friends and family members as a hobby, and a few years ago I installed a KR Sabers mace windu BMF saber for my Dungeons and Dragons DM as a present for the amazing work and effort they put into the campaign of theirs that I was lucky to be able to play a part in.

I designed and printed my own simple chassis to fit the MW3 saber and everything worked out great from an install point. I supplied them with a 28" blade to go with their saber and figured that it would be perfect for them to enjoy the saber. I recently found out that they purchased a shortend 16" pixel blade to use with the saber in a reverse-grip style since they enjoy playing the rogue class when they arent the DM of our group’s campaign.

I’ve been planning on updating their soundboard from the Proffie V2.2 to the V3.9 and I was curious to know if theres a way to add a special gesture that could take the pixel count of the 28" blade to the pixel count of a 16" blade while keeping it througout all of the soundfonts that have been added and programmed into the board.

Knowing that they are a big fan of the rogue class in D&D and seeing that they purchased a short pixel blade for the saber I installed for them, I felt that would be fitting for their saber if they could do a quick gesture control that would take the pixel count down from the 28" length to the 16" length, with some special blade effects, and hold that style throughout all of the other soundfonts I’ve loaded and programmed into their saber.

If it’s possible and already avaiable, I would greatly appreciate the information on how to program that into the board for them. If not, is there a possibility of it being able to be programmed into the proffieboard so they could switch from the 28" pixel count to the 16" pixel count on the fly?

Thanks again in advanced to all of you!

MTFBWYA

-Chris

NoSloppy · August 20, 2025, 4:19am

Not on a gesture, but auto-setting the board to use the right length based on which blade is inserted is what BladeID was made for.
Essentially, it detects the blade currently in, (or no blade) and will switch to the appropriate Blade Array used (where you set the length).

Recently some of us added the array switch to be manually available on a button combo / gesture. If you search the site for “array switch” or similar.

achance4glory · August 20, 2025, 9:28am

You are the bomb dot com. Thank you so much!

NoSloppy · August 20, 2025, 5:57pm

I totally had pasted the wrong link before. try now.

Sabersense · August 21, 2025, 9:16am

Note that BladeID will require resistors to be wired into each blade for the system to differentiate between blades. If you’re making the blades, then it’s easy but if the blades are already built and glued, then not so much.

Alternatively you can use a new feature called Array Selector to make it work. Several prop files have it, my own included. This would allow you to switch blade lengths manually using a simple button press.

More details here:

github.com

profezzorn/ProffieOSDocs/blob/4a468e7054d09345f62fbb15e51c67eb5d7d0116/props/sabersense/array_selector.md

---
title: Sabersense Array Selector
---

## Principles and Practice
Array selection is a seemingly simple tool that is actually surprisingly powerful. The Sabersense Array Selector utilizes the ProffieOS BladeID engine, replacing regular BladeID with the ability to cycle through blade arrays manually. The idea is that multiple different blade settings can be accessed at the press of a button, with simple config tweaks providing enormous options. Adjustments to the blade array can help build many different Array Selection setups, such as:

* By specifying dummy blades, you can have a different number of effective blades on the same saber by switching arrays.
* Multiple blade arrays can all look at the same preset array.
* Specifying or not specifying individual save files per blade array allows you to control which blade preset (font) you land on when you switch into a new array.
* If you have the same number of presets in multiple preset arrays, array switching can become invisible and appear to the user as a simple toggle between single differences between preset arrays.

To add array selection to your saber, you need to add the following define to the CONFIG_TOP section of your config:

`#define SABERSENSE_ARRAY_SELECTOR`

Arrays must be numbered sequentially, starting at zero (0), in the field that would otherwise contain BladeID values. If using Array Selector with Blade Detect, you must add `#define SABERSENSE_NO_BLADE` to the top of your config. You also need to replace the zero (0) in the first array with NO_BLADE. When the end user cycles through the arrays, the NO_BLADE array will be ignored by Array Selector and will only be accessed by the Blade Detect process. Further details about Blade Detect can found here: https://pod.hubbe.net/howto/blade-detect.html

When switching arrays, the switch is confirmed by playing an associated arrayx.wav file. If no array file is available, the system will play the font.wav file instead. A further optional define will play the arrayx.wav file *and* the font.wav file:

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achance4glory · August 22, 2025, 12:44pm

I’m gonna try out the Array Selector for sure! I appreciate y’all sharing this info with me. It helps out a ton!

achance4glory · August 31, 2025, 8:53am

I went ahead and added the code for the arrays with the two different blade LED presets and the but I’m having a hard time trying to figure out how to switch between them. Is there a specific gesture or button combo that I have to use in order to switch between 54 LEDs and 132 LEDs?

I am terrible at programming and when it comes to reading code, I am incredibly confused on what it does for the most part. I’m almost willing to crack open my friend’s blades to install a resistor but I’d rather use the array with some kind of gesture control through code instead since it would be less invasive.

Thank you for your understanding and help in this matter! Please let me know if you’d like to see the config file that I currently have set on the Proffieboard v2.2 that I installed into his saber.

Sabersense · August 31, 2025, 10:19am

Yes, post your config here.
However it also depends what prop you’re using. With the Sabersense prop, all you would do is three short clicks of the POWER button with the blade off and it would switch arrays, but other props might handle it differently and I don’t know what the button presses/gestures for array selection would be with those.
But yes, post your config and I’ll be happy to add the array selector to it.

achance4glory · August 31, 2025, 5:44pm

I just realized I wasn’t using the Sabersense prop file and using Fett263’s prop file and that’s why it wasn’t working. My ADHD brain was running on fumes and that’s what I get for trying to fix things when I could be sleeping lol.

Now I do have a question about the code. I was reading through the Sabersense prop file and I love how the notes explain what the code does. Is there a way to combine the array selector and the options implemented for the array selection code with some of the code used in Fett263’s prop file code? My buddy is so used to the fett263 controls and I’d love to keep those controls for him while also adding the array selection control and implementation.

Fett263 · August 31, 2025, 6:00pm

I have support in my prop for OS8 via defines.

github.com

profezzorn/ProffieOS/blob/962e9a8ada2e78d0f65ede42ecfa15e06a5da0c3/props/saber_fett263_buttons.h#L557


      
          
          FETT263_SAY_COLOR_LIST_CC
          Spoken Color Names replace default sounds during Color Change "CC" Color List Mode (requires .wav files)
          
          FETT263_SAY_BATTERY_VOLTS
          Spoken Battery Level as volts during On Demand Battery Level effect (requires .wav files)
          
          FETT263_SAY_BATTERY_PERCENT
          Spoken Battery Level as percent during On Demand Battery Level effect (requires .wav files)
          
          FETT263_MANUAL_BLADE_ID
          Enables Manual Blade ID Scan via button control (see here: https://pod.hubbe.net/howto/blade-id.html)
          *requires BLADE_ID_SCAN_MILLIS define, replaces "Change Font" control
          
          FETT263_MANUAL_BLADE_ARRAY
          Enables Manual Blade Array switching via button control (you need more than one Blade Array)
          *replaces "Copy Preset" control
          
          == BATTLE MODE OPTIONS ==
            Battle Mode is enabled via controls by default in this prop, you can customize further with these defines

Listed in controls as well.

github.com

profezzorn/ProffieOS/blob/962e9a8ada2e78d0f65ede42ecfa15e06a5da0c3/props/saber_fett263_buttons.h#L120


      
            Check Battery Level*  = Hold AUX, Click PWR
              *requires EFFECT_BATTERY_LEVEL style and/or FETT263_SAY_BATTERY_VOLTS or FETT263_SAY_BATTERY_PERCENT define
              *if using FETT263_BC_SAY_BATTERY_VOLTS_PERCENT
              Point down for volts, parallel or up for percent
            NEW! Manual Blade ID* = Hold AUX + Long Click PWR
              *requires FETT263_MANUAL_BLADE_ID define
              *replaces Change Font control
            NEW! Change Font*
              Next Font = Hold AUX + Long Click PWR (parallel or up)
              Previous Font= Hold AUX + Long Click PWR (down)
            NEW! Manual Blade Array* = Hold PWR + Long Click AUX
              *requires FETT263_MANUAL_BLADE_ARRAY
              *replaces Copy Preset control
            NEW! Copy Preset* = Hold PWR + Long Click AUX
          
          Optional Gesture Controls (if enabled and Gesture Sleep is deactivated)
            Ignite Saber
              Swing On
              Stab On
              Twist On
              Thrust On

OS8 is currently in beta, see this thread for more info.

ProffieOS 8.4 beta (call for testers!) ProffieOS

ProffieOS 8.x is moving from alpha do beta. That means that everything has at least some documentation, and there will be zip files available. For now I’m going to only make the zip files available in this thread. You can also get the latest from github, which should be more or less identical to the latest release during the beta testing stage. ProffieOS-v8.4.zip (826.1 KB) The list of features should be mostly complete now, but I may still sneak in a few things. Once we go from beta to live, there will be no new features, only bugfixes. The release Process All the features listed below needs to be tested before we can move from beta to live. The more people help, the faster it will go. How to test Pick a feature below that you want to test, and that hasn’t been tested already. (It will say “Tested by NAME” next to it once it’s tested.) Try it out and see if it seems to work as expected. Report your findings in this thread, and if the test was successful, I will edit this post and add “Tested by NAME” next to the feature. Hopefully the feature you selected is either easy to figured out, or one that I’ve gotten around to document (There will be a book icon next to the feature if it is documented. Click on it to go to the documentation.), if not just post a question in this thread and I’ll make sure to point you to some information about how to use it. Changes since V7.x Menu System This isn’t so much a menu, as it is a system for implementing menus. It also separates the menu setup from the prop file, so we can have multiple different menu configurations, and then prop A and menu B independently. Currently supported by the “saber” and the “BC” props. For most users, all they will need to know is how to use the MENU_SPEC_TEMPLATE define. Sound Library V2 Adds a bunch more sounds to the spoken sound library to support the new menus. Also adds support for a configurable color list. Color Display support (Tested by orntar) Support 16-bit color displays. What is shown is composited from layers, and each layer can show independent color animations. Animations use a new file format called PQF which offers some compression (usually around 50%) while being very fast to decompress. PQF also offers loops, labels and conditions which lets you build complex animations which react to events from the saber. SD card corruption protection If enabled, SD cards will not be automatically mountable on your computer. Instead,…

achance4glory · August 31, 2025, 6:06pm

This is wicked cool. I appreciate the work that you and everyone in this community brings for the saber installers like myself. Thank you, everyone that’s reached out to help me in this thread! I’m going to give OS8 beta a whirl and see what I can do with it!