smeighan
Dedicated elf
Snowflakes has never worked they way i imagined it when i wrote it 6 months ago.
so, i rewrote it to get it closer to what i wanted and to fix some errors it was having.
Bug fix: no longer causes errors when generating effect
Enhancement:
1) Faster to generate
2) he number of frames of animation is equal to (sequence duration)/fame_timing
so if you have 50ms frame timng and a 11 sec duration sequence you will have 220 frames of animation.
3) 7 New prompts
color1 (was start_color)
color2 (was end_color)
speed (i think values around ..3 to .8 are prob better)
background_color (if and rgb value is ever zero, substitute with this value)
snowflake_type (0-6. discussed below)
colour_model (1,2. discussed below)
number_snowflakes (How many snowflakes are originally drawn).
snowflakes Effect Settings
username f
user_target A
effect_class snowflakes
submit Submit Form to create your effect
effect_name SNOWFLAKE_DEMO1
window_degrees 180
color1 #08FFAD
color2 #0011FF
frame_delay 100
sparkles 0
speed 0.5
background_color #000000
snowflake_type 2
number_snowflakes 30
colour_model 1
seq_duration 7
fade_in 0
fade_out 0
OBJECT_NAME snowflakes
batch 0
show_frame N
So , let's discuss these.
First i changed the start_color, end_color to now be called color1, color2,. These colors are used differently than before.
There are two color models:
color_model #1:
color1 is the center dot of your snowflake. color2 is the color that wraps around the center.
here is an example
color model #2:
we start with color1 and then end with color2. if you have 10 snowflakes, the 1st snowflake will be color1, the 10th snowflake color2. the other 8 will be spread across the hue spectrum between the two colors.
here is an example using everything the same as above, but selecting color_model = 2:
There are 6 types of snowflakes, this is set with snowflake_type:
type 1: a single pixel. this probably can look just like light snow
type 2: a single pixel surrounded by 4 additional pixels.
type 3: a 3 pixel vertical or 3 pixel horizontal snowflake. they are randomly picle vert or horiz.
type 4: a single pixel surrounded by 8 additional pixels.
type 5: a single pixel surrounded by 20 additional pixels.
type 6: a single pixel surrounded by 44 additional pixels.
types 2,4,5,6 create large and larger snowflakes, you need a big enough target model for the larger numbers.
Type 0: is a special case that will randomly select all of the above.
So here is an example of snowflake_type 5
snowflakes Effect Settings
username f
user_target A
effect_class snowflakes
effect_name SNOWFLAKE_DEMO3
window_degrees 180
color1 #08FFAD
color2 #0011FF
frame_delay 100
sparkles 0
speed 0.5
background_color #000000
snowflake_type 5
number_snowflakes 10
colour_model 1
seq_duration 7
fade_in 0
fade_out 0
submit Submit Form to create your effect
OBJECT_NAME snowflakes
batch 0
show_frame N
New option background color, now works as expected. It will set your background color whenever it finds an rgb value of zero.
snowflakes Effect Settings
username f
user_target A
effect_class snowflakes
submit Submit Form to create your effect
effect_name SNOWFLAKE_DEMO4
window_degrees 180
color1 #FFFFFF
color2 #8AFFE0
frame_delay 100
sparkles 0
speed 0.5
background_color #000CB3
snowflake_type 2
number_snowflakes 25
colour_model 1
seq_duration 7
fade_in 0
fade_out 0
OBJECT_NAME snowflakes
batch 0
show_frame N
Enjoy!
I will go over this effect in tonights tutorial at 7pm MST
thanks
sean
so, i rewrote it to get it closer to what i wanted and to fix some errors it was having.
Bug fix: no longer causes errors when generating effect
Enhancement:
1) Faster to generate
2) he number of frames of animation is equal to (sequence duration)/fame_timing
so if you have 50ms frame timng and a 11 sec duration sequence you will have 220 frames of animation.
3) 7 New prompts
color1 (was start_color)
color2 (was end_color)
speed (i think values around ..3 to .8 are prob better)
background_color (if and rgb value is ever zero, substitute with this value)
snowflake_type (0-6. discussed below)
colour_model (1,2. discussed below)
number_snowflakes (How many snowflakes are originally drawn).
snowflakes Effect Settings
username f
user_target A
effect_class snowflakes
submit Submit Form to create your effect
effect_name SNOWFLAKE_DEMO1
window_degrees 180
color1 #08FFAD
color2 #0011FF
frame_delay 100
sparkles 0
speed 0.5
background_color #000000
snowflake_type 2
number_snowflakes 30
colour_model 1
seq_duration 7
fade_in 0
fade_out 0
OBJECT_NAME snowflakes
batch 0
show_frame N
So , let's discuss these.
First i changed the start_color, end_color to now be called color1, color2,. These colors are used differently than before.
There are two color models:
color_model #1:
color1 is the center dot of your snowflake. color2 is the color that wraps around the center.
here is an example
color model #2:
we start with color1 and then end with color2. if you have 10 snowflakes, the 1st snowflake will be color1, the 10th snowflake color2. the other 8 will be spread across the hue spectrum between the two colors.
here is an example using everything the same as above, but selecting color_model = 2:
There are 6 types of snowflakes, this is set with snowflake_type:
type 1: a single pixel. this probably can look just like light snow
type 2: a single pixel surrounded by 4 additional pixels.
type 3: a 3 pixel vertical or 3 pixel horizontal snowflake. they are randomly picle vert or horiz.
type 4: a single pixel surrounded by 8 additional pixels.
type 5: a single pixel surrounded by 20 additional pixels.
type 6: a single pixel surrounded by 44 additional pixels.
types 2,4,5,6 create large and larger snowflakes, you need a big enough target model for the larger numbers.
Type 0: is a special case that will randomly select all of the above.
So here is an example of snowflake_type 5
snowflakes Effect Settings
username f
user_target A
effect_class snowflakes
effect_name SNOWFLAKE_DEMO3
window_degrees 180
color1 #08FFAD
color2 #0011FF
frame_delay 100
sparkles 0
speed 0.5
background_color #000000
snowflake_type 5
number_snowflakes 10
colour_model 1
seq_duration 7
fade_in 0
fade_out 0
submit Submit Form to create your effect
OBJECT_NAME snowflakes
batch 0
show_frame N
New option background color, now works as expected. It will set your background color whenever it finds an rgb value of zero.
snowflakes Effect Settings
username f
user_target A
effect_class snowflakes
submit Submit Form to create your effect
effect_name SNOWFLAKE_DEMO4
window_degrees 180
color1 #FFFFFF
color2 #8AFFE0
frame_delay 100
sparkles 0
speed 0.5
background_color #000CB3
snowflake_type 2
number_snowflakes 25
colour_model 1
seq_duration 7
fade_in 0
fade_out 0
OBJECT_NAME snowflakes
batch 0
show_frame N
Enjoy!
I will go over this effect in tonights tutorial at 7pm MST
thanks
sean