Colour sequence when multiple colours are selected

[gerry]

I am not clear as to how , when u select more than one colour for an effects such as bars , you can control which sequence the colours should play in.

As per the attached screen print , I have selected the Bars effect, palette rep = 1, cycles 1.0 , and have selected three colours ie the light blue, brown and dark blue.

When the effect starts , I wanted it to start playing those three colours in that sequence.
But instead it plays brown , dark blue and then light blue.
(I think I added light blue last, overriding a colour that was already there.).
So - how can I get it to change the order and in general , how does it select the order ?

It also plays brown , dark blue , light blue and then brown again (which is more than one of either palette rep or cycles) - which would control how many times these three repeat in the timeframe ?
 
I have done an F5 , but not done a render all.

[kevinp]

I believe the colors will display in order of left to right.  Say you want brown to be last, it has to be to the right of the other two colors.

[flyinverted]

So you've picked colors 1,2,3 and it's playing 2,3,1.  Once the bars are going 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3 looks the same as 2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3. 

Remember that bars first fills the colors on the model solid and then starts the movement. 
I would expand the strands and nodes to see exactly what color is starting first.

Here is what I noticed.  If you pick RED, GREEN, BLUE with movement to the right on a model with 13 verticle lines, you'll get the  R,BBBB,GGGG,RRRR and that is correct.

RRRR is on the far right, and the first color picked.
GGGG is next and is the second color picked
BBBB while it's the second color when viewing left to right, it's the 3rd color chosen.
R the repeating color is left over from RGB.

[gerry]

Thanks Steve !

I should have asked this question a few weeks ago , when I was first stuck , but mostly switched to rainbow or fiddled around with the colours in diff positions until (by trial and error) it gave me the sequence of colours I wanted. Somehow I was just looking at it visually 'from left to right'.

[nzlongfellow]

Gerry you can change the colour of the 6 palettes to anything you want. Just click on it and put them in the order you want just for that model/sequence.

[gerry]

Thanks Dennis,
But as Steve explained and unlike LSP which I was used to , it does not start with the leftmost colour selected and move to the next one, so whilst I had selected diff colours, the seq that they played in was diff and I could not control what I was getting easily.
I think I understand now..or at least know how to check and amend. Ned to unlearn some stuff ..

[Gilrock]

Actually it should start with the leftmost color.  Are you putting it on a model group by chance?  Because a model group is like a whole house model.  There are pixels that are invisilbe because the effect is rendered to a matrix the size of your layout window but you only see the pixels light up where you actually have models.  Try bars on a single string model and I bet it works how you think.

[flyinverted]

There are two factors that determine the order of the colors.

The first factor is the order on the color palette in which the color chosen.

The second factor is the direction of the effect.  If you select RED GREEN BLUE and set the effect to Bars, you may see the colors as BLUE GREEN RED and that is perfect if the direction is set to right as the right most color is RED, the first color chosen.

Gerry, YES the left most color is the first color and the right most color is the last color on the effect.

Try bars with 3 colors and change directions, the colors will change order and direction. Think of it like a snake, the tail always follows the body which follows the head regardless of the direction. If you always look at it left to right or top to bottom, then it would appear that the colors are backwards, but they're not.