smeighan Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Well, i have done a major rewrite of the spirals effect class (More than 50% of code was rewritten). The summary of changes1) rotation (BUG), this was not working as i originally envisioned it. This now tells how many times a spiral rotates from the top of the tree to the bottom. Works now and you get a bonus, if you se this value to zero, you will have vertical bars2) color palette (ENHANCEMENT). Spirals now have up to 6 colors in its palette3) Rainbow Hue (ENHANCEMENT). If you answer Yes to this then your first two colors will be used to create a rainbow hue between the two (This is the way spirals has always worked)If you answer N, then your color palette will be used. If you have 3 spirals, the first 3 colors from your palette are used. If you choose 8 spirals, the 6 colors from your palette are used for the first 6 and then the first two are reused.4) Speed (ENHANCEMENT). Now you can speed up and slow down your spirals5) Fade 3D (ENHANCEMENT). This follows the way the bar effect works. If You answer yes , each spiral will fade away in intensity. This gives a 3D effect to the spiral. If you answer no, you will get solid color spirals (This is the way spirals has worked in the past).This effect now has the most prompts of any effect class. The effect prompts we will talk about are highlighted below:Effect Settingsusername fuser_target Aeffect_class spiralseffect_name DEMO_HUE_Nhandiness Lnumber_spirals 4number_rotations 1spiral_thickness 4window_degrees 180frame_delay 100sparkles 0direction ccwrainbow_hue ncolor1 #FF0000color2 #2F0FFFcolor3 #45FF0Dcolor4 #03FFD5color5 #FFFF03color6 #FF05EEuse_background Nbackground_color #17910Ffade_3d nshow_frame nseq_duration 1.618fade_in 3fade_out 3speed 1submit Submit Form to create your effectOBJECT_NAME spiralsFirst lets look at the Rainbow Hue promptrainbow_hue = 'Y'http://meighan.net/nutcracker/effects/workspaces/2/A+DEMO_HUE_Y_th.gifrainbow_hue='N' (This causes us to use your color palette)http://meighan.net/nutcracker/effects/workspaces/2/A+DEMO_HUE_N_th.gifNow lets look at the number of rotations. This was broken, but it works nownumber rotations = 0.0. This will give you vertical barsnumber rotations = 0.1number rotations = 0.5number rotations = 1.0Next lets look at the new option for speedspeed = 0.1speed = 0.5speed =1.0speed =2.0too many images, so will post second half Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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