Nutcracker 3.0.6 release. Spirograph enhancement

[smeighan]

The 3.0.6 release has these things in it.

1) Spirograph effect. Added ability to animate one of the slider bars. Fixed the Spirograph equation (was missing a parenthesis).
Since it is hard to describe how this effect now works, i made a 10 minute video
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Here is a 45x45 horizontal matrix showing a Spirograph effect


here is a 20x120 half megatree showing the exact same effect as above.


2) Modified code to make left window stay large enough to see the models. Remember that you can always make the xLights window bigger by dragging the bottom right corner.

3) Removed all effects in RGBEffects.cpp and made separate files for each effect. RenderBars.cpp, RenderMeteors.cpp, .etc. This was a suggestion from one of the developers.


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thanks
sean

[plaberge]

*Very* nice Sean. I was able to create a cool "fire with smoke rising" effect on the MTREE model by layering Fire with Spirograph and checking the animate distance box.

Just curious, is there an easy way to capture a GIF of the effect displayed in the left window?

Paul.

[smeighan]

*Very* nice Sean. I was able to create a cool "fire with smoke rising" effect on the MTREE model by layering Fire with Spirograph and checking the animate distance box.

Just curious, is there an easy a way currently a way to capture a GIF of the effect displayed in the left window?

Paul.

I use screencast-o-mastic. It can save the captured image as either mp4 or animated gif.

[plaberge]

I use screencast-o-mastic. It can save the captured image as either mp4 or animated gif.

Thanks - here's what it looks like.

[smeighan]

I use screencast-o-mastic. It can save the captured image as either mp4 or animated gif.

Thanks - here's what it looks like.

Very cool!

sean

[taybrynn]

Thanks Sean, this is a very creative effect.  Nice job plaberge, wow !

[rdebolt]

^^^ +1^^^^

[taybrynn]

Here is a 3.0.6 spirograph effect in red and green on a 32x32 matrix.  I've had it do some pretty nice "wreath" type effects with just a little tinkering.

Sean, thanks for the tip on screencast-o-matic ... I had already been using it, but had no idea of all the capabilities it had.

[rdebolt]

Here is a 3.0.6 spirograph effect in red and green on a 32x32 matrix.  I've had it do some pretty nice "wreath" type effects with just a little tinkering.

Sean, thanks for the tip on screencast-o-matic ... I had already been using it, but had no idea of all the capabilities it had.

Very cool taybrynn!

[smeighan]

Here is a 3.0.6 spirograph effect in red and green on a 32x32 matrix.  I've had it do some pretty nice "wreath" type effects with just a little tinkering.

Sean, thanks for the tip on screencast-o-matic ... I had already been using it, but had no idea of all the capabilities it had.

Looks very nice!

sean