Been playing around with the new Layer Settings and the Render Style and trying to figure out how that works. I have attached the files I have been playing around with with this. In there, the layout is for lights along the roof line of my house. I've attached a photo of the house from before I switched over to RGB lights, so you can sort of see what layout would be like.
The horizontal lights in the model are pretty accurate because they are horizontal lights along the gutters or roof line. The peak in the model is also pretty well laid out. The other diagonal lights in the model are the best I can showing the lights going into and out of the screen which is what they do along the house.
One of the effects that I use in shows is a chase of the lights as if they are acting as one large string. To get this effect what I previously had done was to make a custom model that I don't check as part of my show, that has the nodes in the order that I would want them to chase that I called "Roof Whole Chase". That is in the first 10 seconds or so of the attached. In that you can see the lights start in the upper right side of the house (at the back), move forward, around the peaks, and end at the bottom right side of the house. This has worked very well for me, but trying to see if I can do the same thing with the new features.
To test that out I made a model group called "Roof" and put the same effect that I used above on that model group. Changing the Render Style will give many different results, but the closest to what I was looking for was the Single Line Style. Most of the lights look like what I was expecting, but the lower right lights are going in the wrong direction (from what I want anyway). I guess the question I have is how do the different render styles work to determine which model/string/node light up in which order. Trying to figure out if there is a way I can change things to get that model group to work with the new features.
Obviously, I do have a way to use Nutcracker to do what I want without using those effects, and I am sure there are many other ways that I could get the same results. Mainly just trying to learn now to use the new Layer Settings and Render Styles for other things in the show, and figured this was the best way for me to learn that.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Jon7
