Motion Row - Twinkle??

[gsmith37064]

Does anyone know why the motion row does not twinkle all colors like it does on the channel level?

I am using white for the twinkle which should give me all colors, but it only displays white.

[PhilMassey]

Just select multiple colors in the twinkle motion effect

Edited March 10 by PhilMassey

[gsmith37064]

17 minutes ago, PhilMassey said:

Just select multiple colors in the twinkle motion effect

Been there and done that and it does not look as good.

I ended up enabling channel level and doing it that way. You can never go wrong with channel level it seems.

[Don]

Motion Effect rows are fundamentally different than channel level rows.
At the channel level you are saying "Twinkled all 3 LED colors" which yields different colors. 
At the motion effect level you are saying "Please twinkle white."

[gsmith37064]

3 hours ago, Don said:

Motion Effect rows are fundamentally different than channel level rows.
At the channel level you are saying "Twinkled all 3 LED colors" which yields different colors. 
At the motion effect level you are saying "Please twinkle white."

One of these days I will actually complete a 100% motion row sequence.

I was soooooo close this round!

Dang twinkle lights. 🤣

 

 

[Steven]

13 hours ago, gsmith37064 said:

... and it does not look as good.

Some of that depends on your definition of "good". It could be that you are trying to get the exact same result as the channel-level twinkle, but you can't. Whether it's "as good" is a matter of opinion. One difference is that when using channel-level twinkle you will get 7 colors: red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta, and white. Your choices channel-level color choices are limited (for instance, you can get red, green, and yellow if you twinkle yellow). The twinkle motion effect, however can give you up to 6 colors but they can be any colors you want.

The twinkle motion effect has a bunch of controls that can give you a virtually unlimited number of options. The density and rate make the most visible change, and then you have mode, which doesn't seem to be documented, but seems to work like this: \

• Mode: "twinkle" fades the pixels on and off;
• "pulse" turns them on suddenly and fades off;
• "flash" turns them on and off suddenly (like channel-level does);
• "solid" turns them on at the start of the effect and leaves them on until the end; and
• "pulse" seems to be a fast "twinkle".

In all cases, unlike the channel-level twinkle, a pixel will never change from color to another. It will always turn off first.