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Welcome => What new effects you would like to see => Topic started by: richardd on May 22, 2016, 11:06:35 PM

Title: Virtual strings?
Post by: richardd on May 22, 2016, 11:06:35 PM

Hi

Not sure where to post this or even if it already a feature but I do my best to describe what I would like to happen.

I have four arches in front of my house and as part of these arches I have a fan effect which is a custom model.  On each fan , the bottom of the fans are pixels 1-15 and than 91-105.  Is there a way I can create a virtual string that would only access these 30 pixels and that maybe group all 4 of the bottom parts of the so the behave like a single string?

Thanks

Title: Re: Virtual strings?
Post by: flyinverted on May 22, 2016, 11:32:11 PM

You can do this by making a custom model. You'll just need to know the start channel for each virtual string.
Once you've got the custom models done, you can then add them to a model group and drop the effect on the model group.

You might even be able to create a single custom model. 

Title: Re: Virtual strings?
Post by: gerry on May 23, 2016, 01:31:03 AM

Depending on what sort of effects you are trying to achieve , have you had a look at the Sub buffer selection functionality of Layer settings which allows you to say target the lower components of the arches only ?