Hey everybody, this is a "how would you do this effect" post... For years I have done tons of different spirals, but never really thought about using layers to change the color of the spiral until this year. I went into xlights last night and started tinkering and after a couple hours, went to bed... I couldn't get it to work. I was able to get a single spiral to change colors by putting it on top, setting it to a white spiral, setting the layer blending to '1 is Unmask' and then putting a color wash underneath it with let's say blue and green. The spiral then spins and changes color from blue to green. Perfect. If I try to add another one of those spiral and color wash combos, though, I can't seem to figure out how to 'reveal' the second spiral. I have been successful at creating a fixed color second spiral, but if I put another color wash on top of the first spiral and color wash set, I completely lose the second spiral that is color changing. I'm sure there must be some way to layer these properly, but I have changed most of the layer settings and can't seem to get it to work. What is odd is that I can put any single effect on top of the spirals (color wash, plasma, butterfly) and set it to '2 reveals 1' and get the color changing spiral to play on top of the solid effect, so I think this has to do with the fact that to make a color changing spiral I am trying to combine a color wash with a white spiral in '1 is Unmask' mode.
Is there another way?
Thanks!
