I am releasing the new effect class: single strand.
With this release you can pick the three different animated gifs to model you single strand.
The only effect class today is chases. In a few days there will be color-wash and fills
The 3 animated gifs are
1) Arches
2) Window
3) Roofline
In this example we use the same virtual strand on the 3 animated gifs. It is two x100 strings concatenated together to make a 1x200 strand.
Here are the sttings for the 4 segments , these settings were used on all effects
the only difference is the model of the animated gif.
ARCH
ROOFLINE
WINDOW
To use this:
1) Create a target model and select "single_strand".
2) Go to the seconf form and finish defining the model but telling nutcracker how many pixels each string has and how many segments you will make your virtual strand into.
in my example
2 strings of 100
4 segments
3) Now go to the effects screen, select the target model that was built as a single strand
4) select "single-strand" as the effect class
5) fill in first page of data and then go to second follow on form. This second form allows you to assign effects to each segment.
6) generate and export as usual.
Tomorrow, 7pm MST Thurs Sep 20 I will giving a tutorial on single strand effects.
thanks
