Sean Meighan

Software => Nutcracker Models => Topic started by: Shawn42 on April 20, 2016, 09:13:56 PM

Title: Wrapping lights around a 90 degree turn
Post by: Shawn42 on April 20, 2016, 09:13:56 PM
Likely something that is right in front of my face but I am not seeing it.

How do you alter a pre-made model? What I am doing is running RBG icicles along the roofline of my house. If I come to a 90 degree turn in my roofline but that ends up being the halfway point of a string of icicle pixels, how do I wrap the icicle model around in my LAYOUT so that my icicle model matches the physical 90 degree change in my roof? Do I create a custom model specifically for each time I wrap around an angle of my roof line?
Title: Re: Wrapping lights around a 90 degree turn
Post by: Gilrock on April 20, 2016, 09:28:00 PM
Two models
Title: Re: Wrapping lights around a 90 degree turn
Post by: jnealand on April 21, 2016, 02:39:09 PM
Yep, I would just say do not confuse a physical string with a single model.  It is the channel numbering that will count.  So the second model just continues with next channel number.  The trouble with that from my point of views is that i may not know during my planning where the break in channel numbers really occurs, but once that is known it is pretty easy to update the model definitions and re-render a sequence.
Title: Re: Wrapping lights around a 90 degree turn
Post by: Gilrock on April 21, 2016, 02:59:45 PM
Yeah I tried to challenge Dan into making Single Line and Icicles be multi-vector models but he didn't bite.