smeighan Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 I completely rewrote the spiral effect, 1) It is more than 2x faster to generate effect2) The glitch in each generation of the spiral is fixed. This was the *MAIN* error, it also turned out that this glitch would effect all effects generated by Nutcracker. Fixed.3) Corrected the number of spiral wraps so it works from zero to 100. Before only worked from 0 to 2.0.4) Fixed a bug (no one had brought up), that if you created a 360 target, created a spiral. Now go back and make target 180 degrees and make a spiral. Original 360 effect would be appended into the 180 degree spiral.5) Delete gnuplot dat files after creating effects. This will save a huge amount of my disk space.6) New effect, in the handiness (spiral wrap direction). Before you had L(eft), R(ight). As you start at the top of the tree, which way to wrap the spiral. New option is B(oth) directions. This removes the need to generate a Left and a Right spiral and then use layers to join them together.<b>BOTH spiral</b>spirals Effect Settingsusername fuser_target Aeffect_class spiralseffect_name SEAN3_BOTHhandiness Bnumber_spirals 2number_rotations 0.5spiral_thickness 2window_degrees 180frame_delay 50sparkles 15sparkles_count 10direction cwrainbow_hue Ycolor1 #FF033Dcolor2 #0831FFcolor3 #FFFFFFcolor4 #FFFFFFcolor5 #FFFFFFcolor6 #FFFFFFfade_3d Nshow_frame nseq_duration 9fade_in 0fade_out 0speed .5submit Submit Form to create your effect$use_background Nbackground_color #FFFFFFbatch 0OBJECT_NAME spirals<b>LEFT wrap spiral</b>spirals Effect Settingsusername fuser_target Aeffect_class spiralseffect_name SEAN3_LEFThandiness Lnumber_spirals 2number_rotations 0.5spiral_thickness 2window_degrees 180frame_delay 50sparkles 15sparkles_count 10direction cwrainbow_hue Ycolor1 #FF033Dcolor2 #0831FFcolor3 #FFFFFFcolor4 #FFFFFFcolor5 #FFFFFFcolor6 #FFFFFFfade_3d Nshow_frame nseq_duration 9fade_in 0fade_out 0speed 1.0submit Submit Form to create your effect$use_background Nbackground_color #FFFFFFbatch 0OBJECT_NAME spirals<b>RIGHT wrap spiral</b>spirals Effect Settingsusername fuser_target Aeffect_class spiralseffect_name SEAN3_RIGHThandiness Rnumber_spirals 2number_rotations 0.5spiral_thickness 2window_degrees 180frame_delay 50sparkles 15sparkles_count 10direction cwrainbow_hue Ycolor1 #FF033Dcolor2 #0831FFcolor3 #FFFFFFcolor4 #FFFFFFcolor5 #FFFFFFcolor6 #FFFFFFfade_3d Nshow_frame nseq_duration 9fade_in 0fade_out 0speed .5submit Submit Form to create your effect$use_background Nbackground_color #FFFFFFbatch 0OBJECT_NAME spiralsI have two bugs left to work on If you make a spiral with rainbow colors, fade_3D='Y' and export to lms, lms gives an error about the xml file. This is a new bug , probably introduced by the large changes i made. ill work it. All other combinations itried with LOR all worked fine.Pixel #1 on the first string for LOR is wrong. This is pretty minor, 1 pixel out of your entire tree. I will fix it also as I get time to look into it.thankssean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Fischer Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 As usual -- YOU ROCK!Thanks! Will hopefully get a chance to play with this tonight, but if not, then tomorrow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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