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Offline mitch09

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Color wash multiple colors at once
« on: December 08, 2014, 01:11:07 PM »
Is there an easy way to make nodes Static (on) alternating 2 or 3 colors?

Say Node 1 is Red, Node 2 is Green, Node 3 is blue, Node 4 is Red, Node 5 is Green, Node 6 is Blue and so on.

Then make them static and not move. I have been playing with effects in nutcracker and cannot get this to happen. I'm sure there must be a way.

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Re: Color wash multiple colors at once
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2014, 05:21:23 PM »
You can do this if you think outside of the box and with a bit of effort.

Make 3 models of your Tree, or line or whatever it is you want to do this to.

Model 1 will have pixels 1,4,7,10
Model 2 will have pixels 2,5,8,11
Model 3 will have pixels 3,6,9,12

Red on Model1
Green on Model2
Blue on Model3

Now you can do red chases left to right, while blue chases right to left, etc.

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Re: Color wash multiple colors at once
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2014, 09:20:23 PM »
I think the Single Strand skips effect would work perfect for this except it currently doesn't allow a skip size of 0.   I just changed that.   Right now, you could do a skip size 1 and have node 1,3,5,7,etc... be lit up with the desired alternate colors and be static. 
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Re: Color wash multiple colors at once
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2014, 10:55:10 PM »
i will build a 3.6.13 for release tomorrow morning.

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Re: Color wash multiple colors at once
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2014, 11:35:24 AM »
I'm not at home so I cant test right now, but doesn't bars do this? set the thickness to max so there is no black/off lights in between

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Re: Color wash multiple colors at once
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2014, 12:44:14 PM »
I think the Single Strand skips effect would work perfect for this except it currently doesn't allow a skip size of 0.   I just changed that.   Right now, you could do a skip size 1 and have node 1,3,5,7,etc... be lit up with the desired alternate colors and be static.

Perfect! I actually use "skip" right now, but it left one node unlit for the "skip"