Nutcracker: Bars effect enhancments

[smeighan]

bars can now so some new things

sparkles , 3 types

Random Rainbow

White

Same Hue

You can now get vertical bars besides horizontal.

Lets start with a horizontal bar effect with no sparkles. I have BOLD marked the new prompts

bars Effect Settings

username f

user_target A

effect_class bars

effect_name BARS_VERT1

window_degrees 180

frame_delay 100

number_bars 6

bar_type H

sparkle_type S

sparkles 0

fade_3d Y

speed 1

direction down

color1 #FF0000

color2 #FF8E0D

color3 #FFFF00

color4 #2BFF00

color5 #006FFF

color6 #4C00FF

highlight Y

seq_duration 4.857255

fade_in 0

fade_out 0

submit Submit Form to create your effect

OBJECT_NAME bars

batch 0

First we will try "Same Hue" sparkle_type with sparkles percentage at 50%

Now we will try the Rainbow Hue sparkles.

Since sparkles override the rgb values of the colors you select you can do something like make your colors dark.

bars Effect Settings

username f

user_target A

effect_class bars

submit Submit Form to create your effect

effect_name BARS_VERT3

window_degrees 180

frame_delay 100

number_bars 2

bar_type H

sparkle_type R

sparkles 50

fade_3d Y

speed 1

direction down

color1 #00006B

color2 #00006B

color3 #00006B

color4 #00006B

color5 #00006B

color6 #00006B

highlight Y

seq_duration 4.857255

fade_in 0

fade_out 0

OBJECT_NAME bars

batch 0

Finally you can select bqr type ='Vertical'

bars Effect Settings

username f

user_target A

effect_class bars

effect_name BARS_VERT4

window_degrees 180

frame_delay 100

number_bars 2

bar_type V

sparkle_type W

sparkles 50

fade_3d Y

speed 1

direction right

color1 #FF0000

color2 #FFF700

color3 #00FF1A

color4 #0800FF

color5 #FF00EE

color6 #FFFFFF

highlight Y

seq_duration 4.857255

fade_in 0

fade_out 0

submit Submit Form to create your effect

OBJECT_NAME bars

batch 0

I will discuss this some tonight in the tutorial.

thanks

sean