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Title: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: ww1022 on December 21, 2016, 08:46:00 PM

Is anyone willing to share their programs in Xlights for a HolidayCoro, Coro Canes?  Thank you for any help.

Title: Re: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: arw01 on December 21, 2016, 09:29:57 PM

Programs, sequence, model definition, which is it you are really looking for?

Title: Re: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: ww1022 on December 22, 2016, 07:49:26 PM

Not really sure.  Just starting to play with x lights and I'm really trying to figure out how to make green and white, red and white, red and green canes.  I have 16 rectangle modules per cane.  Thank you

Title: Re: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: jnealand on December 22, 2016, 08:25:51 PM

Just pick the two colors you want and put a bar effect on them going up or down.

Title: Re: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: Bruiser on December 22, 2016, 11:53:03 PM

I believe the effect your looking for is this:

Select The Single Strand effect
Choose the colors you want
In Effect Settings, select skips, band size (1), skip (0), # of advances with get them to move
In Layer Settings, Render Style "Single Line"

Then play around with the band, skip sizes, and advances to get different looks.

Title: Re: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: Gilrock on December 23, 2016, 10:56:28 AM

Many effects work on candy canes.  I tend to use Marquee the most because it's the quickest to setup and usually works well with defaults except maybe backing the speed down.  SingleStrand, Bars, and Morph all work well also.

Title: Re: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: Ebuechner on December 23, 2016, 11:20:35 AM

I have the same candy canes and for the most part I just use the bar effect and it looks fine.

Title: Re: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: ww1022 on December 23, 2016, 12:40:17 PM

All super helpful and thank you.  Is there any easy way to make the canes stripped versus a solid color?

Title: Re: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: jnealand on December 23, 2016, 01:18:28 PM

Go back and read reply 3

Title: Re: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: kentd on December 23, 2016, 01:24:57 PM

Here is a picture of the Marquee Effect using white, Green and Red and stationary. These were taken to test before the front was attached. When the cover is on there is a distinct separation of each part of the candy cane.

Title: Re: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: arw01 on December 23, 2016, 03:01:32 PM

I am considering cutting the top layer of coro off mine and trying to put a second set of rectangles in there this summer. Up on the roof they just are not that bright compared to some other elements I have.

Title: Re: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: babybear on December 23, 2016, 04:21:55 PM

On all of my coro displays, snowflakes, Bruno, and candles I had cut off the top layer just as you said. I took the blade off the cutter and nailed it to the bottom of a stick. It saved my hands from running against the cut coro. it did help a lot. 

Title: Re: Coro Canes from Holidaycoro
Post by: ww1022 on December 23, 2016, 04:29:04 PM

Thank you to all.  My issue was on the specs on the layout tab of the canes.  Everything is working well.