lightning Effect over color morphing

[KenKol]

I can get each effect to go independently of each other, but cannot seem to figure out the layering settings that, in my mind, should allow this to work.

I had a firefly digital lightning effect simulator that came with an audio CD of thunder. That would be plugged into a series of AC lights that would flash to simulate lightning. I want to move that over to the 30 RGB flood lights I have. The flood lights used to flow through some Halloween colors to wash the house in eerie colors with the lightning flashing as well.

In Xlights, the VU Meter effect with "On" as the type does a decent job of lightning, but when I try to put the flowing colors on it and flashing the white, I cannot get the layering to work. i seem to get either/or.

Would anyone be able to shed some insight into this?

[allknowing2012]

If I understand you ..
place the colors effect on the upper layer (say butterfly just for fun)
place the vumeter below it..

Now click on the butterfly effect, in the layers settings choose "2 is a true unmask"

[KenKol]

Thanks for that. That sort of did something like what I wanted. Springboarding off that, I used "additive" with the morphing effect on layer 1 and the VU meter set to simply "on" on layer 2. This keeps the color wash going and flashes white when the volume of the thunder goes up and down. I will real world test it this weekend thoug to confirm.