spiral tree

[bobschm]

I understand that xLights is model centric, but has anyone figured out how treat a spiral tree as if it were a single strand. I'm picturing in my fertile brain a meteor effect spiraling up the tree like the Polar Express. Can't seem to make it happen.

[Ebuechner]

There's many ways that this can be done with xlights.
But how you would do it depends on what you have for a spiral tree.
Do you have a single strand of pixels that spiral to a point at the top of the tree or do you have something that has multiple strands that spiral?
Are they pixels or are they dumb RGB or even AC lights?

[Gilrock]

Did you use the Tree model to create the spiral?
Have you tried selecting Single Line for the Render Style?
Have you used a Morph to create a meteor?

[bobschm]

Ok, I'm just starting to investigate xLights so clearly I have a large learning curve ahead of me. I created the prop as a spiral tree, one strand of 50 RGB nodes, spiraling up from the lower left to a point at the top. I got a snowflake effect to fall and accumulate on it. I assume that rendered as a model. Can I swap between strings and models on the fly inside a sequence? Where should I look for info on this?

Thanking you in advance for your patience!

[Ebuechner]

Look in the layer settings window for a box that says render style they'll be a drop-down for different options including single line which is what I think you want to try.

[bobschm]

Got it. Thanks!