Author Topic: Fire Effect for Single Line  (Read 1037 times)

Offline adamis

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Fire Effect for Single Line
« on: October 28, 2018, 10:01:31 PM »
I've been see searching for some time but I cannot find a sufficient answer so here goes...

My setup has my lights on the inside of my house eves so that you don't see the pixels, just the glow on the wall of the house. They are just a single strand along the eves. I want to implement a fire effect that gives the appearance that the eves are on fire for Halloween. I have just a single strand so when I go to use the built in "fire effect" it only gives me the very bottom of the effect, which has almost nothing happening (just red's and yellows).

When I enable the same sequence on a Matrix, the full fire effect comes out and looks really great but of course, I don't have a matrix, just the one strand. Looking at the Matrix effect, if I could just copy a single row out of the matrix (one of the middle strands that has more action occurring), I think it would give me the effect I want. However, I can't figure out how to copy just a single row of the matrix and import it into a single strand.

Is there a way to accomplish what I'm looking for?

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Re: Fire Effect for Single Line
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2018, 06:32:31 AM »
Try rotating the buffer by 90 degrees? 

Layer Settings, Buffer , Transformation CCW 90 or CW 90

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Re: Fire Effect for Single Line
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2018, 11:07:48 AM »
Or oversizing the buffer. Although I am not sure it makes it big enough.


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Offline Gilrock

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Re: Fire Effect for Single Line
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2018, 01:17:32 PM »
How about using Twinkle.