Right, I know I could probably just say the channels are in a straight line from left to right (as opposed to the custom model which shows where they really are in terms of x,y) ... and then the LEFT to RIGHT would basically be in "node order" at that point?
The problem is I'm not using consecutive channels or necessarily all the channels in a range ... so the custom model is needed to specify which nodes are actually being used.
I guess the cheap and ugly solution would be to use the custom model but to just change their layout to a single left to right line ... which coudl then handle chases from left to right or right to left, etc.
If there was such a thing as channel asc or channel desc order even that might not work because my model uses nodes 91, 92, 93, 10, 94, 95 to represent its continuous shape and thats not even in numerical order ... so I'd have to have a way to associate object node order withen the object and that doesn't exist and probably isn't a very common thing folks would need.
Take a look at the attached picture ... in YELLOW is my outer CROSS and its composed of nodes but also makes re-use of nodes from other shapes (when a yellow box surrounds, then its also using it in the CROSS which is denoted in YELLOW). For example, between 138 and 139 is re-used node 10 from the inner cross (lt blue). So the correct order on the bottom of the big cross is ..., 138, 10, 139, ...
This shape build upon my previous 89 node topper (which had an inner cross and radians) and adds another 75 nodes to also created a second 4 point star and a large outer cross. Many other shapes can also be made from this layout, but I haven't made models for them all yet. This supper topper is 165 nodes and I run it on 2 SSC with the first being 89 and the second having the balance. This way my programming on the first 89 can be shared with models from my 89 node toppers but additional model can be used against this super topper which has many more shapes possible. Currently I don't use but just a small fraction of the capability of these because programming them has been a major challenge. xlights models has made this so much easier, but its not perfect yet.
