Making a Pixel String look like a traditional light string

[kentd]

I am sure this has been asked before but I can't find anything. If you want to turn on a string of say 100 pixels and have like a red, green, blue, orange, white and then repeat this combination down the entire string and just have the string light as if it were a plain old string of christmas lights. How would you do it?

[sean]

Use twinkle effect. It was made to create a traditional light. String


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[danj]

I thought the intent of colorwash was to give you the ability to turn on all pixels in a string with the same color (?)

[CaptainMurdoch]

I think he wants 5-6 colors repeating like a string of multicolor LEDs, so I think bars might work for him and he can pick the 6 colors to use.

[sean]

bars would work if you dont want them to twinkle.
in twinkle, once  a color is assigned to a pixel it is never changed.

so twinkle can give RGBPOY lights twinkling up and down
bars can give 6 colors that repeat over and over and do not vary

[kentd]

I think bars would be better than twinkle even though they do move.
Thanks for the input
Kent

[kentd]

I found this in another post Called Multiple colors at once.

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.

Would this also work?
I am thinking this would be done with a custom model and in the case of a straight string just turn on the colors you want for each model.

[dkulp]

I am sure this has been asked before but I can't find anything. If you want to turn on a string of say 100 pixels and have like a red, green, blue, orange, white and then repeat this combination down the entire string and just have the string light as if it were a plain old string of christmas lights. How would you do it?

Use the "Single Strand" -> Skips effect.

Set the colors in the palette to the colors you want.   Set the "Band size" to 1, the "Skip Size" to 0.    Drop the speed all the way down to 1.   That should make it static. 

[kentd]

Thanks that does work