Nutcracker: New effect, tree

[smeighan]

My wife, Lilia, is from the Ukraine. I met her through the internet 15 years ago. She asked for a new effect to put to the Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky.

She wanted a tree that would have garlands put on it.

Happy wife, happy life.

New effect class is called tree,

tree Effect Settings
username   f
user_target   A
effect_class   tree
effect_name   TREE1
window_degrees   180
frame_delay   100
number_branches   5
number_garlands   2
sparkles   0
blink_speed   300
color1   #FF0303
color2   #E608FF
color3   #031CFF
color4   #FFF708
color5   #00FFDD
seq_duration   5
fade_in   1
fade_out   1
submit   Submit Form to create your effect
OBJECT_NAME   tree
batch   0
speed   1



i will cpover this new effect tonight.

thanks

[jnealand]

Wow, my wife likes it as well.

[Ron]

That's very cool, again.

I was just thinking today that it would be cool to put a GIF of a Christmas tree on a Nutcracker half mega tree and see what it looks like. Just haven't had time to login and try.

Ron

[garyh]

Wanted to see what this would look like on a matrix, but it doesn't draw the garlands.   

[kgustafson]

garyh,

It draws garlands on my matrix.  Make sure you set the tree colors, the palette colors, and select "Y" to draw the garland.  The first color corresponds to the first garland color.  The tree color is the background color of the tree (typically a color of dark green).

Kurt